Environmental | Art | Humanities: Narrating Nature (DAY ONE)

Date: March 31, 2016
Time: 5:00pm - 8:00pm
Location: Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall, C105, Bay 4, Smith Warehouse

A Humanities Futures Event. Organized by the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, the Nicholas School of the Environment, and the Duke Initiative in Environment Arts, and the Humanities. Co-sponsored by the Center for Global Studies and the Humanities, Cultural Anthropology at Duke and the Anthropology Department at UNC-CH, The Abya Yala Working Group, and the Working Group Environment on Latin America (WGELA) at the Consortium in Latin American and Caribbean Studies and the Franklin Humanities Institute 

REGISTRATION ENVIRONMENTAL HUMANITIES SPRING SYMPOSIUM at link.

On the Politics of Plants

5:00pm: Reception

5:30pm

Film: Abel. By Fernando Arias Gaviria. 17min.

Discussion with Abel Rodríguez, Indigenous leader of the Nanuya Nation (Colombian Amazon) and María Clara Van der Hammen, Anthropologist, Tropenbos International.

Respondents: 

Walter Mignolo, Literature & Romance Studies, Duke University

Marisol de la Cadena, Anthropology, University of California Davis