Environmental Humanities Research Initiative Autumn Panel

Gilman 108

Visualizing Human and Ecological Loss in Latin America (Gisela Heffes, Modern Languages and Literatures) Beeing and Time: Toward a Literary Entomology (Christiane Frey, Modern Languages and Literatures) Modified: Colonial Limits and Plant Life Relations in Transgenics Research (Nicole Labruto, Program in Medicine, Science, and the Humanities; Anthropology) Organized and Moderated by: Jennifer Gosetti-Ferencei, Modern Languages […]

Non-Literary Fiction: Lecture by Esther Gabara

The Department of Modern Languages and Literatures and the Program in Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies are pleased to present Esther Gabara (Duke University) for a talk and conversation about her new book Non-literary Fiction: Art of the Americas under Neoliberalism (University of Chicago Press, 2022). With Non-literary Fiction, Gabara examines how contemporary art produced across […]

AGHI New Faculty Lecture: Gisela Heffes

Nutritive Aesthetics: Knitting Gardens of Hope in Contemporary Latin America A tissue, in Spanish tejido, is defined as a set of cells that form a structural part of a living thing. A tejido is also a material fabric that involves careful and artisanal work. Blankets are woven objects that warm us up in the cold in […]