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Lecture Series 2023

Possible Futures: Imagination and Speculation to Resist in the Anthropocene Prof. Dr. Renato Sztutman(Universidade de São Paulo)  The focus of this presentation is the place of imagination and speculation in the Anthropocene, a geological epoch in which humanity has become the in which humanity has become the predominant force, putting the integrity of the planet at […]

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Plant Alterities. Multispecies entanglements with plants

The aim of the Plant Alterities event was to bring together researchers, both indigenous and non-indigenous, from different areas of knowledge in the human sciences who are interested in plant life and its multispecies entanglements. So-called “plant interactions” open up space for innovative and interdisciplinary approaches that invite us to experiment with different modes of […]

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EcoImages: Amazonian Indigenous Film Festival

For the West, Amazonia has been, over the centuries, a blank canvas upon which diverse conceptions of the natural world are projected: a Paradise already lost to the rest of the world; an El Dorado of fabulous riches; a territory of unsuspected dangers; the last redoubt of a wild nature; an area where unbridled extractivism […]

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Rivers of the Amazon: Poetic Affluents and Contested Modernities

Rivers are central to the existence of Amazonian populations, playing a key role in the way Indigenous and riverside communities get nourishment, travel and trade. The imaginary of these communities is determined by close contact with rivers, which are often equated with giant snakes, considered a source of life in local cosmologies. At the same […]

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Colloquium – Vegetal Humanities in the Amazon

In the last decades, several academic disciplines have undergone a process of restructuring triggered both by a deepening climatic and environmental crisis and by anti-colonial and anti-racist protests throughout the world. In Latin America, the increasingly important role of Indigenous and Maroon peoples, as well as of several other traditional communities, in politics and in […]

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