Environmental | Art | Humanities: Narrating Nature

Friday, April 1, 2016
9:00am - 5:30pm

Holsti-Anderson Room, Rubenstein Library. Duke West Campus
9:00am - 9:15am: Welcome

Deborah Jenson, Director, Franklin Humanities Institute, Professor of Romance Studies and Global Health, Duke University

9:15am - 10:45am: (1) Environmental Governance

Carlos A. Rodriguez, Program Director of Tropenbos International Colombia

Decision Making, Traditional Knowledge and Global Governance

Fernando Restrepo, Fundación Cine Documental Acción Social.

Documenting River Guardians - social and environmental action.

Respondent: Arturo Escobar, Anthropology. UNC-CH

11:15am - 12:45pm: (2) Critical Zones: Flows and Bodies

Christine Siebe, Universidad Autónoma de Mexico

Waste Waters, Soil, and Community Impact

Fernando Arias, Visual artist, director and co-funder More Art, More Action (mas arte mas acción)

The Atrato and the Amazon: a visual exploration

Respondent: Dan Richter, Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke

12:45pm - 1:45pm: Lunch

1:45pm-3:30pm: (3) ENHU Futures

Astrid Ulloa, Director Working Group on Culture and Nature. Universidad Nacional de Colombia.

The Working Group on Nature and Culture

Gisela Heffes, Associate Professor of Latin American Literature and Culture. Rice University.

Trash Matters: Cultures of Waste in Latin America

Respondent: Christine Folch, Cultural Anthropology. Duke University

3:45pm - 5:45pm: (4) Energy(ies), Species & Culture