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The Minority Languages and Cultures Project (MLCP) brings together scholars who share the aims of revitalizing subordinate languages in Latin America, documenting the cultures of the communities that speak them, and monitoring the play of language and culture in the ethnic and regional politics of this zone.

The MLCP is proud to present the 2013 Spring Institute: “Rethinking Popular Cultures” taking place on the IUB campus on May 10-11, 2013.

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Soul Train Unbound: Rethinking the Current(s) of Diasporic Space and the Ethnographic Encounter

Dr. Andrea Queeley
Dept. of Global and Sociocultural Studies
Florida International University

Monday, April 15, 4pm
Student Building 159

Soul Train, the iconic weekly variety show that debuted the music and dance of Black America during its long run from 1971 through 2006, crossed the confines of the U.S. market into places as close as Guantánamo and distant as Nairobi. Read more...

La cohabitation du français et du créole dans le système éducatif haïtien. Enjeux, défis et perspectives pour bilinguisme équilibré

Rogéda Dorcé Dorcil
Faculté de Linguistique Appliquée
Port-au-Prince, Haiti

Thursday, April 18, 5:30pm
Ballantine Hall 332

About the talk: Depuis l’Indépendance, le français a toujours demeuré, de facto, la langue officielle de la République d’Haïti. Langue de l’école, langue de l’administration, le français a toujours été perçu comme langue de la "classe dominante" Read more...

Freedom in the Jungles of the Pacific Coast of Colombia

Dr. Claudia Leal
Department of History
Universidad de los Andes
Bogota, Colombia

Thursday, March 21, 4pm
Fine Arts 102

This talk, which covers the late eighteenth century through the early twentieth century, will explain why self-manumission prevailed and what freedom came to mean for ex-slaves and their descendants. Read more...

Graduate Student Roundtable

Eric Bindler, Ethnomusicology
Jennifer Boles, History

Friday, Nov. 30
12:00-1:30pm
Woodburn Hall 120

Our fall 2012 Graduate Student Roundtable will focus on students' experience with fieldwork. Eric will be speaking on studying reggae in Costa Rica; and Jennifer on studying underground filmmakers in Mexico. Read more...

Sightseeing the End of the World: Everything you were dying to ask about 2012

Dr. Quetzil Castañeda
Lecturer, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Indiana University

Wednesday, Nov. 28, 6:30 pm
Unitarian Universalist Church
2120 N. Fee Lane

In this presentation Dr. Castañeda demystifies the origins and nature of the current fascination with the Maya, their calendar, and the beliefs about prophecies for the upcoming solstice on December 21, 2012. Read more...

Indigenous Airwaves: The Mapuche Struggle against Acoustic Colonialism

Dr. Luis Carcomo-Huechante
Dept. of Spanish & Portuguese
University of Texas

Friday Oct. 19
2pm FA 201

Mapuche radio programs play a pivotal role in the struggles to preserve and revitalize native forms of oral communication as well as in the process of “voicing” indigenous rights in Chile and Argentina. Read more...

The Social Construction of ‘Foreign’ Sounds in Quechua-Influenced Spanish

Dr. Anna Babel
Dept. of Spanish & Portuguese
Ohio State University

Friday Sept. 7
4pm BH 215

What makes a sound “exotic”? In some informal varieties of Andean Spanish, speakers use aspirates and ejectives of Quechua origin, despite their dissimilarity to the canonical Spanish sound system. Read more...