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SUMMARY:Pixan Konob' Q'anjob'al Language Justice Collective: Building Community Capacity from a Language Reclamation Framework in a Predominantly White Space
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Korinta Maldonado is Clinical Assistant Professor of Anthropology and American Indian Studies and co-Director of Native American and Indigenous Languages Lab (NAIL)\, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.    Korinta Maldonado founded the collective Pixan Konob' to ensure that Central Illinois' roughly 8000 speakers of Q'anjob'al and other Mayan languages receive information critical to their health\, safety\, education\, and well-being. For this work\, Professor Maldonado was awarded the 2021 Immigrant Leadership Award from the Champaign-Urbana Immigration Forum. In this colloquium\, Dr. Maldonado will describe collaborative community efforts toward reclamation of minoritized languages in a predominantly white space. | Event post: https://ling.uic.edu/events?page_id=4536
LOCATION:Grant Hall 308   Chicago IL 60607
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