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Join us from November 25-28 for a week of events featuring Peruvian poet, publisher and scholar Miguel Coletti.

Speeches in the Moche Language at the Election Ceremony of the Iñikuk Muchik (Mochica Princesses): A Case Study of Linguistic Revitalization and Identity Construction in Lambayeque, Peru

Tuesday, November 25
11 a.m.-1:00 p.m.
Pembina Hall 2-06

This project constitutes a case study in sociolinguistics. It analyzes the ceremonial use of the Moche (or Moche-Chimu) language—a dormant ancestral language—during the contemporary ritual of the election of the Iñikuk Muchik. The study investigates the role of linguistic performance in the reaffirmation of Moche cultural identity in the Lambayeque region. It will address strategies of linguistic revitalization and how ceremonial discursive production contributes to collective memory and ethnic self-definition in the face of globalized modernity.

Meet & Greet
Wednesday, November 26
3:30 p.m.
Salter Reading Room, HC 3-95
Light refreshments

Guamán Poma and the Hybrid Semiotics of Colonial Resistance

Thursday, November 27
11 a.m. - 12:20 p.m.
Tory 1-107
Presented in English

Thursday, November 27
12:30 p.m.-1:50 p.m.
ED-221
Presented in Spanish

This research focuses on the seminal work El Primer Nueva Corónica y Buen Gobierno (The First New Chronicle and Good Government) (ca. 1615) by Felipe Guamán Poma de Ayala. The analysis addresses the work not only as a historical text, but as a complex semiotic document. It explores the hybrid semiotics that emerge from the fusion of alphabetic writing, Andean pictograms, and Quechua oral traditions, used by the author to articulate a radical critique of colonial administration. The presentation will examine how the visual and textual arrangement of the Corónica operates as a system of epistemic resistance and as an early form of decolonial counternarrative.

Interdisciplinary Book-Object Workshop: Collective Memory and Poetry

Friday, November 28
10 a.m.-12 p.m.
Henderson Hall, Rutherford Library South 1-17

This practical and theoretical workshop proposes an intersection of poetry, visual arts, and memory. Participants will be guided in the creation of a Book-Object, understood as a three-dimensional container of meaning that challenges the traditional book format. The methodological approach will be the exploration of collective memory—such as that transmitted through family histories, archives, or public spaces—which will then be transformed into poetic materiality. The workshop encourages transdisciplinary experimentation and dialogue between literary theory and artistic practice.

Registration is required (limited to 20 participants). Register .