Speakers

Emiliana Cruz

Emiliana Cruz

CIESAS-DF

https://linguisticsandpolitics.unt.edu/emiliana-cruz-bio

Emiliana Cruz primarily works on language treatment and revitalization, with a focus on the Chatino language of Oaxaca, Mexico as well as cultural identity and maintenance through language programs and curriculum development, orthography development, and issues related to sovereignty and decolonization.

José del Valle

José del Valle

Professor

CUNY, Graduate Center

https://www.gc.cuny.edu/people/jose-del-valle

José del Valle researches the sociology of language, critical sociolinguistics and glottopolitical theory, focusing on nationalism, neocolonialism, the political economy of language, language policy, language standardization, language, identity and politics in 19th- and 20th-century Spain and Latin America and the history of philology and linguistics in Spain and Latin America.