Welcome to the all-new K’acha Willaykuna (un paso más allá) Newsletter! K’acha Willaykuna is an interdisciplinary Andean and Amazonian Indigenous Arts and Humanities Collaboration that affirms Ohio State’s commitment to the study of and critical engagement with Indigenous cultures of Abya Yala (the Indigenous denominator for the American continent in its entirety). This initiative is funded through […]
For today’s K’acha Willaykuna survivance story, we turn to the Wokini Initiative at South Dakota State University. According to a letter to High Country News (which you can read below), in response to their far-reaching article Land-Grab Universities: Expropriated Indigenous Land is the Foundation of the Land-Grant University System, South Dakota University, a land-grant university, […]
K’acha Willaykuna Our Unlearning Hour Newsletter #7 Survivance Stories #1 April 6, 2020 There can be no business (or busyness) as usual. We cannot carry on Our Unlearning Hour regardless. These newsletters are no longer the fruits of an intimate group discussion in the Wexner Café (our last meeting on March 6th, when four […]
Last Friday (February 28th), we had our sixth meeting of the K’acha Willaykuna Our Unlearning Hour. (We meet every Friday, 9:30-10:30am, at the Heirloom Café in the Wexner Center for the Arts – come and join us!). During our meeting, we focused our discussion on a very specific topic: the potential commission by OSU of […]
This week Our Unlearning Hour met at the Thompson Library for 30 minutes in order to allow participants to attend “The Americas before 1620: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Indigenous Cultures, Colonialism and Slavery” Symposium. Alanna Radlo Dzur, our K’acha Willaykuna GRA in 2019, delivered a talk on Imagining the Marietta Earthworks. This week our conversation turned […]
Last Friday (February 14th) at Our Unlearning Hour, our regular attendees (Tania Espinales Correa, Anna Freeman, Guillermo Paredes Orozco, Richard Fletcher – for only the first half hour – so thanks to Anna and Tania for the notes on which this newsletter is based) were joined by several new faces (Eric Johnson, Moon Kim, Andrew […]
In this week’s Our Unlearning Hour, we discussed methods of unlearning. The question transformed from what have we learned, and what is unlearning, to how can we unlearn. Dana Luciano, a new addition to our group, shared that she believed that it had to do with a more conscious awareness of the world around us, […]
