On Wednesday, March 20, 2024, CLAS hosted a successful Lunchtime Talk event with speaker Carolina Sánchez, Colombian writer and researcher. Sánchez is a Ph.D. candidate in Latin American Literature at Rutgers University and a co-editor of the Latin American Platform for Environmental Humanities.
The presentation for the day was titled: "Environmental Historical Memory: Aesthetic Interventions in Contemporary Latin America." This interdisciplinary environmental research delves into how artistic archives contribute to the formation of imaginaries for environmental care and sustainability amid the 20th and 21 st century neoliberal crises in Latin America. In particular, this research analyzes how the novel Autobiography of Cotton (2020) by Mexican author Cristina Rivera Garza and the River Serpent Book (2017) by Colombian artist Carolina Caycedo contribute to building a transnational, environmental, historical memory that includes women, as well as non’human actors like plants and rivers, as marginalized political agents.
We hope to continue hosting such events and encourage anyone interested in attending other interesting talks like this to please refer to CLAS's Upcoming events page. Events are open to everyone!
