Inhabiting Languages Workshop

Abstract

In the framework of the open commission for the 40th anniversary of democracy and on the way to the III International Meeting: Linguistic Rights as Human Rights. Conversaciones ins/urgentes, we organized together with the Instituto de Culturas Aborígenes (ICA) the event Habitar las lenguas. Workshop on Quechua, Mapuche and Guaraní languages and cultures. The workshop was held at the Museum of Anthropology of Córdoba (FFyH, UNC) on Wednesday, October 25. That is to say, in the month of the counter-festivity that, precisely, inaugurated the ICA thirty years ago in Córdoba.

This activity was conceived as an instance of joint organization between our Faculty and the ICA, two institutions that in recent years have strengthened enriching dialogues around the institutional work, on the one hand, and especially around rethinking traditionally Western and Europeanizing academic practices, on the other. These dialogues that have been calling us from different areas of the FFyH challenge us directly. It is in this sense that we proposed "to contribute to the decolonization of academic thought, from the visibility of some historically subalternized languages and cultures", as we wrote in the call. In this way, then, forty years after the return of democracy in Argentina, we thought of this workshop as the first activity on the way to the III Encounter.