Quechua Alliance Program

8:00 AM – 8:55 AM | Atrium

9:00 AM – 9:40 AM | Atrium

María de Lourdes Túquerrez Maigua (Yachay) and
Emma Bonham (Master of Ceremony)

Tribute to Pachamama in Ecuadorian Kichwa (20 minutes)
María de Lourdes Túquerrez Maigua 

Miguel Ayllón (3 minutes)
Associate Vice President for International Affairs 

John Ciorciari (3 minutes) TBC
Dean of the Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies 

Américo Mendoza-Mori and/or Carlos Molina-Vital (5 minutes)
Co-founders of the Quechua Alliance Meeting 

Serafín M. Coronel-Molina (3 minutes)
Director of the Center of Latin American and Caribbean Studies / Head Coordinator of the Global Indigenous Studies Network

Sonia Manriquez (3 minutes)
Associate Director of the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Collaborative Art Installation
10:00 AM – 12:00 PM | Global Lounge

Trenzar collaborative art installation | Sinpay instalación colaborativa
Lucia Morales
Sumaj Collective

Session 1: Cultura Quechua, Entretenimiento y Performance

9:45 AM – 10:45 AM | GA1060 | Individual Presentations

La práctica de las costumbres – rituales de la cultura quechua
Julia Garcia
Miembro Comité Pro-Bolivia danza y folclore, Quechua Instructor 

Achik Pukllay – Lotería en Kichwa
Sofia Silva
Amigas Press

Pasillos from the Andes to la Roosevelt: how music creates diaspora
Aimee Stephanie Triviño
Binghamton University

Session 2: Enseñanza del Quechua y Evaluación de la EB en Cusco

9:45 AM – 10:45 AM | GA2067 | Individual Presentations

Método Franccesco para la enseñanza del quechua
Elvis Rojas Cierto
Universidad Nacional Hermilio Valdizán

The role of lexical innovation in the Quechua classroom: Runasimipichu? Castellanopichu?
Chad Howe and Bethany Bateman
University of Georgia

Break

10:45 AM – 10:55 AM

Session 3: Derechos Lingüísticos y Revitalización del Quechua

11:00 AM – 12:00 PM | GA 1060 | Individual Presentations

Language revitalization in Colombia’s Sibundoy Valley: Inga Kichwa and Kamëntšá
Rowan Glass and Margaret Carpenter
Indiana University 

Mandatory Quechua learning? Why not?
Carlos Molina-Vital
University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

Session 4: Historia, Estética y Creencias Culturales Andinas

11:00 AM – 12:00 PM | GA 2067 | Individual Presentations

Carmela, awayus e historia
Valentina Wiñay Wara Quispe Isnado
Soy Warmi, Centre College 

Aesthetics of the Kichwa Kañari people from Cañar, Ecuador
Jasmine Guaillasaca Quizhpi
University of Pennsylvania

Revitalizing indigenous languages through ayni and ayllu: Introducing watuchi
Marisol Silva Pilares
Watuchi Siminchik Wasi

Break for Lunch

12:00 PM – 1:30 PM | Lunch, Small Group Activity & Networking

Session 5: Zoonimia, Televisión, Narrativas Femeninas y Cambio Climático

1:45 PM – 2:45 PM | GA 1060 | Individual Presentations

Zonación en el intermareal rocoso en la costa sur del Perú: documentación y zoonimia en quechua chanka
Carmen Cazorla Zen
Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú

Ñuqanchik, the first Peruvian television newscast entirely produced in Quechua
Edith Benavente Solis
National Major University of San Marcos

Narrativas femeninas andinas en el contexto de violencia política
Gloria Macedo-Janto
University of Oregon

Session 6: Marcadores Evidenciales, Promoción y Enseñanza del Quechua

1:45 PM – 2:45 PM | GA2067 | Individual Presentations

Evidential marker type, speaker gender, and distribution in Cusco Quechua discourse
Liliana Sànchez, Helen Koulidobrova, Jeff Imbaquingo, Daniel Pèrez
University of Illinois – Chicago

Promoción y enseñanza del quechua para hablantes de segunda generación: Estrategias digitales e interactivas
Mirian Espinoza Silvestre
Universidad Nacional Hermilio Valdizán

Using dictionary materials to bring an understudied Quechuan language into the classroom
Adam Roth Singerman
Syracuse University

Session 7: Filosofía, Cosmología y Conocimiento Indígena/Andina

1:45 PM – 2:30 PM | GA2134 | Individual Presentations

El t’inkinakuy (interconexión mutua) entre el pacha (mundo) y el runa (ser humano andino) desde los presupuestos ontológicos del Manuscrito Quechua de Huarochirí
Jesus Rivera Guzman
University of Pennsylvania

The five Quechua teachings for wellness: Reclaiming Indigenous knowledge for holistic well-being
Gustavo Kusi Monje
Southwestern College and Northern Virginia Community College

Break

2:45 PM – 3:00 PM

Short Film 3:00 PM – 3:45 PM | GA1060

Decolonization, autonomy, and self-representation of traditional Andean communities
Suni Sonqo Vizcarra Wood
Kusi Kawasay Association

Workshop 1

3:00 PM – 3:25 PM | GA2067

Interactive storytelling workshop - Cosechando nuestras historias, un taller interactivo
Lizette B. Suxo
The Bili App

Workshop 2

3:30 PM – 3:55 PM | GA2067

Andean technologies and climate change resilience
Kathleen Julca
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Documentary

4:00 PM – 4:45 PM | GA1060

Echoes of Quechua
Luz Merissa Vargas
University of Texas at Austin

Workshop 3

4:50 PM – 5:20 PM | GA1060

La Trilla de Salcabamba - Andean dance workshop
Betty Caloretti, Edward Bautista, Rudy Cuevas (presentan). Lucia Morales, Beatriz Morales, Diana Larrea, Edward Bautista, Rodolfo Ramirez, Rudy Cueva (danzantes)
Sumaj Collective

Workshop 4

4:50 PM – 5:20 PM | GA2067

Sapiyay / Root yourself / enraízate: An open discussion on Quechua and Kichwa youth, transnational identities, and community-building in the US diaspora
Amy Elizabeth Chalán Vacacela
Sapiyay Collective

Closing Remarks and Celebration

5:30 PM – 6:25 PM | Shreve Auditorium

Serafín M. Coronel-Molina (5 minutes)
Director of the Center of Latin American and Caribbean Studies / Head Coordinator of the Global Indigenous Studies Network

Américo Mendoza Mori and/or Carlos Molina-Vital (5 minutes)
Co-founders of the Quechua Alliance Meeting 

Quechua Lifetime Achievement Award (5 minutes)

Huaylarsh Moderno Performance by Sumaj Tusuy from Sumaj Collective (20 minutes)

Dinner, Live Andean Musical Performance and Dancing

6:30 PM – 8:30 PM | Atrium & Global Lounge

Nayo Ulloa, Latin American Music & Culture Specialist
Goshen College

Nayo Ulloa has been a dedicated performer of Peruvian and South American music since age Based in the U.S. since 1981, he performed and toured actively throughout Europe and the Americas during the 1990’s.

In the early 2000s, Nayo focused on studying music, composing and teaching. In 2004 Released his solo quena CD, Loma Prieta. In 2007 he performed in the White House for Peruvian Independence Day In 2006 performed the World Premiere of the Machu Picchu Concerto for Quena and Symphonic Orchestra in Arequipa, Peru. In 2009 completed a Master’s degree in Music at San Jose State University, California.

Nayo’s original Quena soundtrack (2010) for the documentary Mi Chacra won a Special Mention at the Inkafest Film Festival in Peru. (www.michacrafilm.com). In 2023, Nayo released the documentary Quena Masterpiece about the Concierto Sinfónico Machu Picchu by great Peruvian composer Jaime Díaz Orihuela (1927-2020).