Juan Diego López Fernández, a student enrolled in the Ethnoeducation and Spanish Literature programs at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of Unicauca, participated as a speaker at the VII Intercultural Meeting of Amerindian Literatures held from August 21st to 26th at the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos (Lima, Peru).

The Intercultural Meeting of Amerindian Literatures is an academic event that, since 2010, aims to propose themes and agendas addressing the essence and formal achievements of indigenous creative writing or their cultural and social universes. In this context, during the seventh edition of this meeting, student Juan Diego López presented the lecture titled "Indigenous poets from southwestern Colombia: verses to remember millenary resilience and ponder cognitive justice."

"We aim to contribute to understanding some of the poetic pieces of the Yanakuna poet Wiñay Mallki and the Camëntsá poet Hugo Jamioy to showcase ethnic, cultural, and linguistic diversity, along with the motivations inspiring their literary creations."

The lecture sought to present the dynamics experienced in the southwestern region of the country to comprehend how these verses draw from collective memory, indigenous identity, territories, native language, and culture.

Lastly, it aimed to highlight the relevance of the legacy of indigenous leader Manuel Quintín Lame, the importance of these Southern poets and their works for an intercultural and decolonizing education within the framework of cognitive justice and in times of truth, recognition, and non-repetition that Colombia is experiencing.

During the panel, various research experiences were shared, including the participation of Dina Ananco, a Wampis poet, presenting "Bilingualism and self-translation in Sanchiu" from Peru, and Angélica María Chavarría Galaz with "Shumpall as a re-signification of oral narrative, a song of love, mestizaje, and Mapuche mythopoetry in Roxana Miranda Rupailaf" from Chile.

The Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences congratulates student Juan Diego López for the excellent representation of the academic programs to which he belongs.