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Tarpuna:el maíz Film Screening&Conversation with Producer and Protagonist

Event Type: Film Screening
Sponsor: Women & Gender in Global Perspectives
Location: Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum 600 S. Gregory, Urbana
Date: Mar 4, 2024 4:00 pm
Speaker: Dr. Pilar Eguez Guevara, Illinois Alumna and Ecuadorian Cultural Anthropologist, writer, and filmmaker and and Teresa Quizhpe Guamán
Contact: Anita Kaiser
E-Mail: arkaiser@illinois.edu
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Originating Calendar: Campus Humanities Calendar; WGGP and CLACS are hosting a film screening of 'Tarpuna: el maíz', a documentary that highlights the cultural and agricultural importance of corn in the Ecuadorian highlands. 'Tarpuna,' which translates to 'to sow' in Kichwa, the ancestral Andean language, features the efforts of local guardians to preserve, exchange, and reproduce this sacred seed. Please register here.