What is the relationship among mapping, extractivism, and literature in the Amazon region? Why do so many novels about Amazonia written after the Rubber Boom period fixate on maps and geographic descriptions? Why do “literary maps” matter? In this talk, Amanda M. Smith (University of California, Santa Cruz) draws on research from her book, Mapping[...]
The Amazon lab reading group meets twice a month to discuss readings from a variety of fields and disciplines that deal with the Amazon and related topics. The group is led by graduate students but is open to everyone. Next meeting: Friday, February 11 at 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM location: the Amazon Lab space[...]
Transamazonia (Brazil, 2019, 74 min), Dir. Bea Morbach, Débora Mcdowell, and Renata Taylor February 15, 2022 - 5:30pm (virtual screening - register for the Zoom event here) Melissa is 21-year-old mother and law student. Marcelly is 35, unemployed, and living with her mother. They're both travesties resisting at different points of the Transamazonian Road, a[...]
Ethnomusicology panel featuring Nana Orlandi (Mi Mawai), Idjahure Kadiwel (USP), & Lucas Canavarro (Mi Mawai). Online: Register at https://cutt.ly/indigenous This lecture presents some aspects of the Indigenous people's music from different parts of Brazil through the experience of Mi Mawai, a transmedia collective born out of an affective alliance with the Huni Kuin people from[...]
Reception with food and drinks, a screening of three short films by Laura Huertas Millán, and a panel discussion with the filmmaker.
A Talk by Lúcia G. Lohmann (Department of Botany, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil) The Amazon Rainforest, also known as Amazonia, covers more than five million square kilometers of dense tropical forest. In addition, its river basin transports the largest volume of water of any river system, accounting for nearly one-fifth of the total water[...]
Join us in thinking about and thinking with plants in the Amazon as part of the FHI Amazon Lab 2022 Plant Symposium. In anthropology, we might say that plants are “good to think with.” Thinking about them helps us see how we understand and fit into the world. But what if plants are more than[...]
See the symposium's full website here A series of dialogues with scholars, artists, activists, documentarians, indigenous cultural producers, and museum professionals to reflect on the past, present and future of the cultures of the Amazon. (English <-> Portuguese simultaneous interpretation will be provided.) Uma série de diálogos com professores, artistas, ativistas, documentaristas, produtores culturais[...]
The Amazon lab reading group meets twice a month to discuss readings from a variety of fields and disciplines that deal with the Amazon and related topics. The group is led by graduate students but is open to everyone. Next meeting: Friday, October 28 at 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM After a series of exciting[...]
Ethnomusicology panel featuring Vandria Borari & Neila Borari (As Karuana / MUTAK). Moderated by Maria Fantinato G. Siqueira (Duke). Vandria Borari and Neila Borari, artists and activists from Borari territory in Alter do Chão, Baixo Tapajós, and members of the Indigenous women's collective As Karuana, will address the relationship between Indigenous art, spirituality, collectivity and ancestrality. They will talk[...]
Join us to discuss readings on the Amazon and related topics from a variety of fields. The group is open to everyone! The group will be led this semester by visiting scholar, Prof. Jamille Pinheiro Dias (Duke University/University of London). Our focus this semester is The Falling Sky: Words of a Yanomami Shaman by Davi Kopenawa[...]
A dialogue between indigenous artists from the Brazilian Amazon and North Carolina, followed by a talk on indigenous art from Jamille Pinheiro Dias, a Q&A discussion, and a catered reception with drinks, food, and live music from Wesley Nóog (Brazilian) Date: Monday 2/27 4:00pm - talks and roundtable 6:30pm - reception and live music Location:[...]