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Amazon Burning / Andes Melting

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An interdisciplinary Symposium

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Amazon Burning / Andes Melting

Uptown Campus
Jones Hall
Greenleaf Conference Room, 100A

Symposium Program

 

8:30-8:50 a.m. Coffee & Snacks

 

8:50-9:00 a.m. Introduction: Kris Lane & Jason Nesbitt

 

9:00-10:15 a.m.: Session I: Setting, Speciation, Human ‘Invasion’

David Campbell — Jordan Karubian — Nicole Katin — Karina Yager

 

10:15-10:30 a.m. Coffee Break

 

10:30-noon: Session II: Cultural Forests/Terra-Forming/Pre-Columbian ‘Extraction’

Sonia Alconini — Bill Balée — Carla Jaimes Betancourt — Eduardo Neves

 

noon-1:00 p.m. Lunch

 

1:00-2:15 p.m. Session III: Colonies & Nations from Nature/Indigenous Counterpoints

Moisés Arce  — Claudia Brosseder — Mark Harris — Claudia Leal — Heather Roller

 

2:15-2:30pm Coffee Break

 

2:30-3:45 p.m. Session IV: The Andes & Amazon in the Anthropocene

Holly Moulton — Karsten Paerregaard — Shawn Van Ausdal — Andrew Whitaker

 

3:45-5:00 p.m. Discussion

 

5:00-5:45 p.m. Coctel

 

7:00 p.m. Dinner at Carmo 527 Julia St.

 

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