Transmitting Indigenous, Vulnerable, and Endangered Languages Symposium

JEWISH CULTURES AND SOCIETIES

SPEAKERS: Américo Mendoza-Mori, Northeastern University; Chaya Nove, Brown University; Wilfried Kuugauraq Zibell, Rhodes Scholar

Américo Mendoza-Mori is an interdisciplinary scholar trained in literary, linguistic and cultural studies. His research focuses on Latin American, U.S. Latinx, and Indigenous communities. Dr. Mendoza-Mori teaches at Northeastern University's World Languages and Cultures Department, is an affiliate at Harvard's Committee on Ethnicity Migration, Rights. His work Indigenous cultures and Latino/Latin American Studies has appeared in a variety of academic journals, has been presented at the United Nations, and has been featured in The New York Times, Library of Congress, a TEDx talk, BBC, NPR. 

Chaya Nove is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Linguistics at Brown University. Research interests include sociolinguistics, phonetics, language variation and change, contact linguistics and bilingualism. Chaya Nove's primary research centers on variation and change in contemporary Hasidic Yiddish spoken in New York, of which she is a native speaker. She also works on prewar European Yiddish dialects. Her current project investigates regional variation in Central Yiddish vowels using data from the Corpus of Spoken Yiddish in Europe (CSYE), which is based on Holocaust testimonies.

Wilfried Kuugauraq Zibell is a Rural Alaskan Rhodes Scholar committed to justice. Harvard BA '21 in Comparative Literature and Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations. Scholar analyzing comparative elements of imperialism in Yiddish literature and Inupiat poetry.

Co-sponsored by the Center for Jewish Studies (CJS), Ethnicity, Migration, Rights (EMR) and Harvard University Native American Program (HUNAP)