The aim of this lecture is to examine, from the perspective of human-animal history, the encounters between human animals and serpent animals published in the Amazonian periodical press during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The objective is to seek the real, rather than metaphorical, animal, making the moment of the encounter — as reported and published — a privileged site for understanding conceptions of fauna, and particularly of an order of reptiles, the Squamata. The talk seeks to identify the actions, recover the events themselves, and bring into focus the forms of knowledge mobilized within them. The traces and deaths of both animals — humans and serpents — will figure here as articulating elements of a history composed of news that circulated through the lands and waters of the Amazon.
October 6, 3pm, online
Zoom Link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83830294380?pwd=inUJ0mPswKptWWmbNJyoRiqJ3YLL56.1