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The staff of the K'inal Winik Cultural Center participates in a variety of educational, public outreach, and scholarly activities.

Education | Grants | Consulting Contracts
Curriculum Development | Awards, Publications, Presentations

Education - 2004-05

Teacher Workshops 2004

Sept: Lorain County Community College Teacher Workshop

Teacher Workshops 2005 (Anticipated)

July: Ohio Humanities Council Summer Teachers Institute
Aug: Guatemala Study Abroad

Public Education Programs 2004

Aug: Welcome Week events and KWCC Open House
Sept: Hispanic Awareness Week 2004 lectures and College Careers Day
Oct: Maya Hieroglyph Weekend 2004
Oct, Nov: K'inal Winik Festival 2004
Nov: Muslim Culture Events co-sponsored with CSU Muslim Student Association: Rediscovering Muslim Spain, Dr. Umar Faruq Abd-allah
Sept-Dec: K'inal Winik Cultural Center Video and Discussion Series 2004

Education - 2003

Teacher Workshops - U.S. and Guatemala

May: Tecpán, San Pedro la Laguna Talleres para Maestros Bilingües
Oct: Wright State University Asian/Hispanic/Native American Center
Nov: CSU Using Mayan Literature Across the Curriculum

Public Education Programs

Sept: Hispanic Awareness Week
Sept, Oct: K'inal Winik Festival
Oct: Maya Hieroglyph Weekend

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Grant-funded projects - 2004

Jul-Jun2005: Laura Martin EFFRD award: SANPRO: Linguistic and digital updating of a rare resource in Guatemalan SpanishSep-Nov: LCCC Meeting Great Minds Series

Pending Proposals

• Cuyahoga County Arts and Culture Economic Development Grants (8/04)

• Kennesaw State University NEH Planning Grant (9/04)

• Ohio Humanities Council Summer 2005 Humanities Teachers Institute (10/04)

• USAID ALO University Partnership 2005-06 (11/04)

Grant-funded projects - 2003

May: NASFA:COOP Meaningful Dialogue: Communicating About Muslim Culture and Health - project director and student assistant invited to present at NAFSA national conference, May 2004Jun: Ohio Collaborative for the Humanities A Multidisciplinary Approach to Teaching Spanish Through Mayan Language, Science, and CultureJun, Aug: Presentations about OCH project at University of Toledo and Ohio Humanities Council K-12 Committee Jul: Graduate College Occupational Therapists in Guatemala students have made professional presentations and are invited to present at NAFSA national conference, May 2004

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Consulting Contracts - 2004

Apr: Project evaluation for the Kaqchikel Community Branch of the Academy of Mayan Languages of GuatemalaMay: Workshop for Oxlajun K'ej (OKMA) linguistics research
organizationJun-Dec: Evaluation of PLFM ProgramsDec (scheduled): Title VI evaluation for international business project, Virginia Commonwealth University

Consulting Contracts: EDUMAYA/USAID (Guatemala) - 2003

Aug: In-country Evaluation of EDUMAYA Program and Impact on its GraduatesOct: Final Report: Qualitative Examination of Outcomes of the EDUMAYA Experience: Family, Workplace and Community Spheres

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Curriculum Development and Student Supervision Martin 2004

• Post-War Mayan Literature and Culture SPN 446/484/546/584 (Fall)

• Jenny Huth, independent study, Intermediate Spanish in Use SPN 296

• Patricia Delgado, sociolinguistics, Mariana Galvez University, Guatemala

Martin 2003

• Mayan Literature in Spanish (Spring)

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Awards, Publications, Teaching Materials, Papers

Scholarship 2003-04

Laura Martin - Fulbright Scholar Exchange Program 2003-04, Linguistics, Universidad Rafael Landívar, Guatemala

Awards 2003

Nadine Grimm - Office of Office of Minority Affairs and Community Relations Outstanding Staff Award 2003

Publication 2003

England, Nora C. and Laura Martin. "Narrator virtuosity and the strategic exploitation of Preferred Argument Structure: Repetition and quotation in Mocho narrative" and "Issues in the comparative argument structure analysis in Mayan narratives". In Preferred Argument Structure: Grammar as the Architecture for Function, edited by John W. Du Bois, Lorraine E. Kumpf, and William F. Ashby. Amsterdam and New York: John Benjamins Publishers; pp. 131-58, pp. 411-36.

Teaching Materials 2003

Ixmatá, Pablo García, Laura Martin, and Nadine Grimm. "La literatura Maya como recurso curricular: unfolleto para maestros bilingües Mayas, second author with Ajpub' and Nadine Grimm. Instituto de Lingüística y Educación, Universidad Rafael Landívar. 49 pp.

Conferences and Presenations 2005 (scheduled)

Oct: URL/CSU Syposium "Crossing Over: Learning to Navigate the Borderlands of Intercultural Encounters"

Conferences and Presenations 2004

Grimm. Formal presentation to USAID/Guatemala of EDUMAYA evaluation (March)Grimm. Ohio Foreign Language Association workshops, Columbus (March).NASFA International Educators Conference poster sessions (May).

Grimm and Ayesha Zafar. Muslim Culture and Health
Grimm, Bridget O'Reilly, and Jan Toyota. OTs in Guatemala

Martin. The Ohio State University Linguistics Colloquium (Fall).

Conferences and Presentations 2003

Martin and Grimm. "Using Maya Indigenous Literature in the College English Classroom" College English Association of Ohio, Cleveland (November).Martin. "El paralelismo como recurso del discurso Maya." V Congreso de Estudios Mayas, August, Guatemala City. (forthcoming)Grimm. "El uso de la literatura Maya como apoyo del desarrollo curricular." Spanish trans. L. Martin. V Congreso de Estudios Mayas, August, Guatemala City. (forthcoming)

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