We provide support to two graduate workshops concerned with Mexican Studies throughout the academic year. Language Laboratories and Archives Seminar.
Nahuatl Learning Environment: Lexicon, Grammar, Encyclopedia
Wednesday, November 17
LFRC, Cobb 210
1:30 p.m.
Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Latin American Studies Jonathan Amith will present his on-line Nahuatl Learning Environment: Lexicon, Grammar, Encyclopedia. Nahuatl, a member of the Uto-Aztecan language family, is the most widely spoken indigenous language of Mexico with more than 1.5 million speakers. Amith is widely recognized to be one of the most active and important scholars working on Nahuatl language and culture in the United States. He has been developing the Nahuatl Learning Environment, significant both for its corpus of material and for its innovative pedagogic approach, since 1979; CLAS has provided support for the project since 1998. The presentation will demonstrate the Nahuatl Learning Environment and how it is used for course instruction. RSVP to lfrc@uchicago.edu. Refreshments.
Latin American Briefing Series: "Venezuela: A Proposed Social Charter of the Americas "
Thursday, November 18 at 6:30 pm
International House, Home Room
1414 E. 59th Street
Mr. FermÌn Toro, Venezuela's Ambassador to the United Nations; and Mr. Jorge Valero, Venezuela's Ambassador to the Organization of American States, will be in the city of Chicago on November 18 to participate in a panel discussion on Venezuela and the proposed Social Charter of the Americas at the University of Chicago. Prof. Alicia Menendez, University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy will provide comment and moderate discussion of the presentation. Venezuela's internal political situation, the country's recent efforts to promote Latin American integration, and its role in the rebuilding of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), has been the matter of discussion in U.S. economic, academic and government circles.
Background on the Social Charter of the Americas:
The Organization of American States (OAS) has recognized through its Inter-American Democratic Charter that poverty, illiteracy and low levels of human development have a negative effect in the consolidation of democracy in the Americas. To address those issues, Venezuela put forward the initiative to draft a Social Charter aimed at implementing social and economic policies in each member country, to meet the Millennium Development Goals adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in September 2000 for the reduction of extreme poverty by the year 2015. The Social Charter of the Americas was proposed to the 34th General Assembly of the OAS by Venezuelas Ambassador to the OAS, Jorge Valero in June 2004. The Charter should reflect contributions from civil society groups, and not just from the governments of the member countries. Human rights groups, union representatives, farmers, students and non-governmental organizations are holding meetings throughout the Americas aimed at submitting proposals to be included in the Charter. The resulting document will be submitted to the OAS.
Co-sponsored by the International House Global Voices Program
