Paraguay Day
Agenda
Friday, October 1, 2021
7:00 p.m. Film Screening: Las herederas (2018)
Alderson Auditorium, Kansas Memorial Union
Introduction by Tamara Falicov, Associate Dean of Arts and Humanities Professor of Film & Media Studies at the University of Kansas
Saturday, October 2, 2021
Kansas Union, Malott Room
9:00 a.m. Early-Bird Breakfast
9:30 a.m. Welcome
Marta Caminero-Santangelo (KU CLACS), Steve Richards (KPP), Melissa Birch (KU Business)
10:00 a.m. Guaraní Workshop: Indigenous Resistance and Writing
Korbin Jones, CLACS MA Student
11:00 a.m. NGOs and the Chaco Indigenous Communities: A Field Assistant’s Observations
Diana Restrepo-Osorio
US Geological Survey, Kansas Water Science Center
KU Geography PhD alumna
12:00 p.m. Lunch: A conversation with KU Paraguayan students
1:30 p.m. Keynote: Intercultural Indigenous Education in Paraguay (via Zoom)
Marilín Rehnfeldt, professor
Catholic University of Asunción, Paraguay
University of Kansas alumna
2:30 p.m. Closing Remarks