As part of a new initiative launched in the Office of Vice Provost for Global Affairs, UVA is welcoming six Global Mentors to collaborate with students and faculty in globally-oriented research, teaching, and community engagement. The Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese is thrilled to announce that Maya Tz'utujil scholar Ajpub' Pablo García Ixmatá will form part of the inaugural class of Global Mentors. García Ixmatá is a professor of Maya linguistics, sociolinguistics, and history at the Universidad Rafael Landívar and Fundación Proyecto Lingüístico Francisco Marroquín in Antigua, Guatemala, and a collaborator at UVA's Multepal Project. He is the author and co-author of 7 books of Mayan language, linguistics, and pedagogy, and the author and co-author of many more book chapters and articles on Indigenous knowledge, landscape, and history.
During his virtual residency at UVA in Spring 2021, professor García Ixmatá will speak with students in SPAN 3420 (Survey of Colonial Latin America) in February, hold office hours for students across Grounds in March, and deliver a public lecture in April at the Institute of Humanities and Global Cultures as part of a roundtable on Indigenous Studies and the Digital Humanities. Please click on the links below to register for events offered as part of his Global Mentor residency. To find out more about the Global Mentorship program, please visit https://global.virginia.edu/global-mentors-program.
Class Visit, Survey of Colonial Latin America (SPAN 3420): Tuesday, Feb. 25, 9:30 am - 10:45 am EST. Please contact Allison Bigelow (amb8fk) for an invitation to class on Zoom if you can't attend the other events.
Open Office Hours for UVA Students, Faculty, and Staff: Thursday, March 11, 11 am - 12 pm EST. Please click here to register.
La codificación de la cosmovisión maya: Retos y oportunidades (IHGC Symposium): tentatively scheduled for Tuesday, April 13, at 7 pm EST/5 pm Guatemala. Stay tuned for more information!
We are grateful to the Monacan Nation as the traditional custodians of the land on which UVA operates, the Maya people who sustain and inspire professor García Ixmatá's work, and the VP for Global Affairs for supporting the Global Mentor program.