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Talk: ‘Yojch’o’ pa Qach’ab’äl’: Remediating Indigenous Orality in the Bilingual Language Classroom in the Guatemalan Highlands

September 22, 2022 @ 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm

Interested parties are invited to attend the talk of Professor Tiffany Creegan-Miller about her new book The Maya Art of Speaking Writing (2022). In her book, she discusses images that are sonic, pictorial, gestural and alphabetic. She reveals various forms of creativity and agency that are woven through a rich media landscape in Indigenous Guatemala, as well as Maya diasporas in Mexico and the United States.

Sponsor: This event is sponsored and hosted by the Department of Modern Languages and Classics and
the Alton ’38 and Adelaide Hamm Campus Activity Fund. For any questions, please contact
Dr. Carlos Villacorta at carlos.villacorta@maine.edu.

Details

Date:
September 22, 2022
Time:
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
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Venue

Arthur St. John Hill Auditorium
University of Maine
Orono, ME 04469 United States
Phone
(207)581-3217
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