{"id":3925,"date":"2025-02-27T09:50:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-27T14:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/laclxs\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=3925"},"modified":"2025-02-27T11:48:29","modified_gmt":"2025-02-27T16:48:29","slug":"in-defense-of-the-land","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/laclxs\/event\/in-defense-of-the-land\/","title":{"rendered":"In Defense of the Land"},"content":{"rendered":"<div  class=\"tribe-events-schedule tribe-clearfix\" >\n\t<h2 class=\"tribe-events-schedule__datetime\">\n\t\t<span class=\"tribe-events-schedule__date tribe-events-schedule__date--start\">\n\t\t\tMarch 12\t\t<\/span>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"tribe-events-schedule__separator tribe-events-schedule__separator--date\">\n\t\t\t\t @ \t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"tribe-events-schedule__time tribe-events-schedule__time--start\">\n\t\t\t\t5:30 pm\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"tribe-events-schedule__separator tribe-events-schedule__separator--time\">\n\t\t\t\t\t &#8211; \t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"tribe-events-schedule__time tribe-events-schedule__time--end\">\n\t\t\t\t\t7:00 pm\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Gilman 479<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The program in Latin America, Caribbean and Latinx Studies is glad to present <strong>Valeria Meiller<\/strong> (Modern Languages and Literatures, University of Texas at San Antonio) for a lecture on<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>IN DEFENSE OF THE LAND: AGAINST ECO- &amp; ACOUSTIC COLONIALISM IN 21st CENTURY PLURILINGUAL POETRY OF ABIAYALA<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The environmental humanities have advanced persuasive arguments that explain how extractivism has manufactured our climate predicament, and how Indigenous cosmologies have long been resisting these extractive power dynamics through their interrelational ways of knowing and being. However, \u2014and particularly in what concerns literary studies\u2014the modes in which these cosmologies are bound to language specificity is a relatively unexplored matter; as the majority of the interventions in the field remain focused on literatures produced in colonial languages. In Defense of the Land advances the argument that the loss of linguistic diversity\u2014which is reflected on the preeminence of literatures in and literary attention to colonial languages\u2014needs to be accounted for as an effect of stressors related to climate change; and, conversely, that contemporary poetry in lenguas originarias serve as a site of environmental preservation and restoration that topples literature with language with territory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Valeria Meiller will analyze how this dynamic plays out in the work of two contemporary poets from Mesoamerica, who live and write in the region known as La Monta\u00f1a in Guerrero, Mexico: Nahua poet Mart\u00edn Tonalmeyotl (Alzacoalota, 1983) and M\u00e8\u2019ph\u2019\u00e0\u00e0 poet Hubert Mati\u00faw\u00e0a (Malintepec, 1986). She will explore how Tonalmeyotl and Mati\u00faw\u00e0a\u2019s poetic praxis simultaneously challenge linguistic extinction and land depletion as two interrelated phenomena stemming from settler\u2019s administration of Indigenous land. 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