Under the title "Descifrando y Leyendo Viejos Documentos Históricos Dominicanos (e Hispanoamericanos) / Deciphering and Reading Old Dominican (and Hispanic American) Historical Documents," a free, 8-session Summer workshop was held at the Archives and Library of the CUNY Dominican Studies Institute during the month of August where participants had a unique opportunity to begin familiarizing themselves with the no-longer in vogue hand-writing styles of the Dominican and Spanish-language worlds of the 16th-18th centuries.
On the other hand, the workshop was an attempt by CUNYDSI to disseminate a reading skill that is usually confined to rare doctoral programs in the humanities in a reduced number of universities.
The workshop, open to everybody with the only pre-requisite of a good level of reading fluency in Spanish, was lead by Anthony Stevens-Acevedo, Assistant Director of CUNY DSI and historian specializing in 16th century La Española or Santo Domingo, and Dr. Lissette Acosta Corniel, a scholar in Latin American studies and a post-doctoral fellow at the CUNY DSI. It took place every Monday and Thursday of the month of August of 2014 from 7:00pm to 8:30p.m.
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