Presented By: Romance Languages & Literatures RLL
Against the Current: Electricity, Environment, and Culture in Brazil
Lecture and Workshop with Victoria Saramago
Lecture: November 19th, 4pm - 6pm
Workshop: November 20th, 11am - 4pm
Location: Modern Languages Building - RLL Commons (MLB 4314)
This talk discusses how electricity is deeply intertwined with cultural production and formative of the narratives that have come to define the Anthropocene in the Great Acceleration in Brazil.
Victoria Saramago is an associate professor of Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Studies at the University of Chicago. Her research interests include twentieth- and twenty-first-century Latin American literatures and cultures with a focus on Brazilian studies, the environmental humanities, the energy humanities, the Great Acceleration and the Anthropocene, fiction theory, mimesis, and interdisciplinary approaches to literature and the environment.
https://rll.uchicago.edu/victoria-saramago
Workshop: November 20th, 11am - 4pm
Location: Modern Languages Building - RLL Commons (MLB 4314)
This talk discusses how electricity is deeply intertwined with cultural production and formative of the narratives that have come to define the Anthropocene in the Great Acceleration in Brazil.
Victoria Saramago is an associate professor of Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Studies at the University of Chicago. Her research interests include twentieth- and twenty-first-century Latin American literatures and cultures with a focus on Brazilian studies, the environmental humanities, the energy humanities, the Great Acceleration and the Anthropocene, fiction theory, mimesis, and interdisciplinary approaches to literature and the environment.
https://rll.uchicago.edu/victoria-saramago
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