We are delighted to announce the 2017 Latin American Cultural Colloquium, organized by the Centre for Contemporary Latin American Studies and the Latin American Society (EUSA) at University of Edinburgh.
The full programme is detailed below, and you can secure your free place at Eventbrite:
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Shaping Nature, Shaping Humans. Entwined Landscapes in Latin America.
University of Edinburgh
Monday 13 March, 2017. 10AM-7PM.
Join us for this annual forum bringing together research excellence on Latin American cultures across the disciplines.
10.00: Registration and welcome
10.30am-11:30:
- Laiz Ferguson (Independent Scholar, Edinburgh): ‘Patativa do Assaré: “A Terra É Naturá”’
- Francisco-J. Hernández Adrián (University of Durham): ‘On the concept of insular and littoral cinema: shaping ruination in El vuelco del cangrejo by Óscar Ruiz Navia’
11.30-11.45: Tea break
11.45-12.45: Keynote. Lesley Wylie (University of Leicester): 'The Poetics of Plants in Latin American Literature'
12.45-14.00: Lunch
14.00-15:00:
- Patience Schell (University of Aberdeen): ‘Depictions of Chilean Nature in the Nineteenth Century: Sublime, Ridiculous, Bountiful and Beautiful’
- Luciana Martins (Birkbeck): ‘Collecting tropical botany and beyond: modes of inscription in the Spruce archive’
15:00-15.15: Tea break.
15:15-16:45:
- Flávia Pezzini (Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh/University of Edinburgh): ‘The Forgotten Forests of Latin America’
- Ann Simpson (University of Strathclyde): ‘Traditional indigenous perceptions of human interaction with the environment: Amazon forest and varzea, Colombia’
- Julieth Serrano (Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh/University of Edinburgh): ‘The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh and Colombia (rbgeColombia) – science with culture’
17:00-18:00: Invited author talk:
'Conversaciones transatlánticas con Javier Montes, autor de la nueva generación de literatura en español'
18.00-19.00. Drinks reception.
Venue: Project Room (AM) Screening Room (PM), 50 George Square, Edinburgh, EH8 9LH.
Time: 10am-7pm.
Free entry!
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