Kawsay Ukhunchay Andean and Amazonian Indigenous Art and Cultural Artifacts Research Collection
Kawsay Ukhunchay Andean and Amazonian Indigenous Art and Cultural Artifacts Research Collection provides a research and teaching resource on indigenous expression and epistemologies in the Andes and Amazonia. Housed in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese (Hagerty Hall 255), the collection supports a growing curriculum and innovative programming connected to the Quechua Language Program and the Andean and Amazonian Studies Interdisciplinary Minor at The Ohio State University. It fosters activity-based and alternative pedagogies compatible with non-Western traditions and aims to engage prevailing forms of indigenous knowledge, power, resistance, and self-determination. The collection and collection website are maintained by a team of student curators registered under Independent Studies, Undergraduate Research, Undergraduate Thesis or Internship credits, and/or the K’acha Willaykuna Andean and Amazonian Indigenous Arts and Humanities Collaboration Working Group.
Graduate Student Annual Conferences
Each year, graduate students of the Department of Spanish & Portuguese organize two conferences: OSUHALSS (Ohio State University Hispanic and Lusophone Studies Symposium) and OSUCHiLL (Ohio State University Congress on Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics). These conferences provide graduate students from Ohio State and other institutions working in literature, culture, and linguistics with the opportunity to present and discuss original research within the greater Hispanic and Lusophone world.
Faculty Research & Area Studies
Other Initiatives
Our Voices/Nuestras Voces is a collaborative project that focuses on second language acquisition of pronunciation. Within this broad field, we are particularly interested in the process of learning the sounds of second language (L2) Spanish by English native speakers. Our Voices/Nuestras Voces is at its core a research enterprise but it is also concerned with aspects of teaching, especially in terms of L2 pronunciation. In fact, we view Our Voices/Nuestras Voces as stemming from the question of how to integrate research and teaching in a way that is productive for all the stakeholders, i.e. learners and researchers.
Popol Wuj is an archive of copies of some of the rare books and other documents related to the Popol Wuj. The aim of this project is to offer an opportunity for an open interaction and exchange of studies in the field of Mesoamerican Indigenous cultures, with emphasis on the Mayan.
Public Rituals in the Portuguese Empire Project aims to analyze the role of public rituals in the making of the early-modern Portuguese empire. Public rituals were held in cities, towns, and villages throughout the empire to celebrate a wide range of occasions. This project studies public rituals through a comprehensive analysis of more than 1,000 printed accounts (c. 30,000 pages of texts and images) displayed in a digital platform, connected with the Digital Library of the Portuguese National Library and the Luso-Brazilian Digital Library.