Speaker: Dr. Paul Merchant, Associate Professor Of Latin American Film And Culture, University Of Bristol
What can a view from, or even through, the Pacific Ocean reveal about Chilean and Peruvian culture? Addressing a corpus that ranges from the mid-twentieth century to the present, Dr. Merchant's current project argues that a Pacific perspective makes it possible to see how culture can build senses of community both among humans and between humans and the nonhuman environment. In doing so, it shows how in the literature, film and visual arts of both countries, the Pacific has been and continues to be a space for experimentation with possible futures. Thus project thus moves beyond the frequent critical categorization of Peru as and of Chile as belonging to the "Southern Cone, showing instead shared environmental and social challenges, and common conceptions of how they might be tackled.
This talk is organized by Dr. Kristina Lyons of Anthropology. For questions, please email
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