RARE (AND FREE) OPPORTUNITY TO LEARN HOW TO DECIPHER AND READ OLD DOMINICAN (AND LATIN AMERICAN) HANDWRITTEN HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS I’m planning to launch in August a first Workshop on Deciphering/Reading Old Dominican Handwritten Documents from Colonial Times. Possibly two 1.5 hour sessions per week during four weeks in August in the evenings (7:00pm –8:30pm), possibly Mondays and Thursdays, at the CUNY Dominican Studies Institute premises at City College. Free, except for a possible non-refundable fee of $10 for the entire eight sessions, with a certificate of completion/attendance issued at the end. Since there is no course currently taught in CUNY (not even for pay) on how to read the old Spanish handwriting styles that were used in the millions of documents produced during the 16th and 17th centuries in La Española/Santo Domingo and other Spanish-language places, this will be my way of trying to contribute to the development of a group of people trained in this reading, so more new knowledge on Dominican early history can be produced in the future here in New York City. The only pre-requisite: having a good, high-school level fluency in reading Spanish, and an I.D. or identification. Nothing else. I am therefore aiming for a group of people that can commit to use eight evenings of the month of August to learn this rather rare, super-elitist skill that opens the door for you to read directly and on your own the documents where the early history of Dominicans (and other Latin Americans) is told, much of which is still unknown precisely because so few people are adequately trained to study it. Please let me know if you are willing and have the time to commit in August to this very rare (yet fulfilling) experiment that will land you some knowledge that very-very few other people have. One of the instruments we will use in the workshops sessions is the Spanish Paleography Deigital Teaching and Learning Tool (spanishpaleographytool.org) produced by CUNY DSI last year. To register, call 212-650-7496 or write a brief message to: [email protected]
Posted on: Mon, 14 Jul 2014 13:52:02 +0000
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