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Please note this is a hybrid event. To attend online please register here

Wednesday 24 May - 5:15pm

Mestizaje and racialized male power, family stories and national mythologies in the Americas

Federico Navarrete (Simón Bolívar Professor, CLAS, University of Cambridge)

*Room S1, First Floor, CLAS, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, CB3 9DT

Tuesday 30 May - 5:15pm

The Environmental Humanities Turn in Latin America 

Gisela Heffes (Rice University, Distinguished Visiting Professor at University of Bristol) 

*Room 204, Second Floor, CLAS, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, CB3 9DT

In this seminar, we will discuss the environmental humanities turn in Latin America, with a special focus on the role Latin America has played in relation to extractivism, the commodification of nature, toxicity, and the shifting landscape. We will consider different and key historical moments and will offer some examples of how Latin American aesthetics and cultural productions have been implicated in the ways we think and perceive nature. We will conclude by discussing the relevance of art and literature, especially creative work, in enhancing our understanding of the climate crisis. A selection of readings will be pre-circulated to participants who register for the seminar.

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Refreshments will be served after the seminar. All welcome.