THE ENVIRONMENT IN BRAZILIAN CULTURE

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This conference brings together talks on various aspects of Brazilian culture and its relation to the environment, including ecocriticism in literature and cinema, plants and animals in Brazilian writings, colonial and postcolonial perceptions of the environment, Brazilian critiques of anthropocentrism, etc.

Schedule

Welcoming Remarks (10:00 am)

  • Vivaldo Santos, Director of the Portuguese Program, Georgetown University

Morning Session (10:30 am-12:30 pm)

  • Gabriel Giorgi – New York University
  • The Geological Agent: Non-Human Temporalities and the Question of the Contemporary
  • Juan-Carlos Galeano – Florida State University. Amazonian Poetry
  • Maria Esther Maciel – Federal University of Minas Gerais. The Zoopoetics of Carlos Drummond de Andrade

Afternoon Session I (2:00 pm-4:00 pm)

  • Victor Mendes – University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth. The First and Second Environments of Brás Cubas
  • Victoria Saramago – University of Chicago
  • Rebuilding the Sertão: Mimesis and Environment in Grande Sertão: Veredas
  • Patrícia Vieira – Georgetown University. Amazonian Zoophytographia

Afternoon Session II (4:30pm-6pm)

  • Malcolm McNee – Smith College. The Pluriversed Landscapes of Josely Vianna Baptista
  • Jens Andermann – New York University. Bio-art and Unspecific Lives

Speaker(s):

  • Jens Andermann – New York University
  • Juan-Carlos Galeano – Florida State University
  • Gabriel Giorgi – New York University
  • Maria Esther Maciel – Federal University of Minas Gerais
  • Malcolm McNee – Smith College
  • Victor Mendes – University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth
  • Victoria Saramago – University of Chicago
  • Patrícia Vieira – Georgetown University

Date and Time: Thursday, October 12, 2017 at 10:00am to 6:00pm

Location: Regents Hall, Suite 391, 3700 O St. NW