Andes/Amazon: Shared Pasts, Shared Futures

This interdisciplinary symposium brings scholars from around the world to discuss the shared histories and futures of the Andes and Amazon regions of South America. The meeting will feature specialists in lowland and highland tropical ecologies, Andes and Amazon plus linked archaeologies, histories, and ethnographies, plus work on this vital region across the social sciences, arts, and humanities. The aim is to link scholarship that has long separated specialists and students of tropical South America as the region undergoes a host of new challenges, human and nonhuman. The symposium runs all day Saturday, 11 April 2026, and is free and open to the public.