Linguistics for Social Justice Colloquium by Korinta Maldonado

The UIC Department of Linguistics/LCSL present our first talk in the Linguistics for Social Justice Colloquium Series from 4:30-6:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 28, at the Language Oasis, Grant Hall 308.

Korinta Maldonado, PhD, assistant clinical professor of anthropology and American Indian studies at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, will share her work, “Pixan Konob’ Q’anjob’al Language Justice Collective: Building Community Capacity from a Language Reclamation Framework in a Predominantly White Space.”

Maldonado founded the collective Pixan Konob’ to ensure that Central Illinois’ roughly 8,000 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, Maldonado will describe collaborative community efforts toward reclamation of minoritized languages in a predominantly white space.

Reception with light refreshments to follow the talk; please RSVP for the event.