The Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese invites you to join Macarena Gómez-Barris on Thursday, April 14, from 4-5:30 pm EST as she delivers our second (Zoom) lecture of the year in the Gerszten Family Visiting Professor series. The talk, "Atacama: An Integrated Research Practice," will be delivered in English with simultaneous interpretation into Spanish available. Please click here to register: https://virginia.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_pTyEQIbcQDuCv1CiP8YLHA.
Immediately following the public lecture, professor Gómez-Barris will host a seminar for graduate students and early career scholars from 5:30-6:30. The conversation will focus generally on issues of professional development: how to enter a field, identify a topic, form research relationships, etc. Please feel free to send your questions to professor Cole Rizki in advance, and click here to register here for the seminar.
“Atacama: An Integrated Research Practice”
In this talk, I reflect on how writing, research, and creative practice come together as a palimpsest of approaches in relation to the particular site of my analysis, the Atacama. Given the colonial anthropocene, and context of ongoing environmental damage, ruin, and extractivism, how might we think about the role of the human and nonhuman in the desert?
Bio:
Macarena Gómez-Barris is a writer and scholar with a focus on environmental themes and decolonial theory and praxis and intersections with queer/trans*feminisms. She is author of three books including, The Extractive Zone: Social Ecologies and Decolonial Perspectives (Duke University Press, 2017) that examines five scenes of ruinous extractive capitalism. Beyond the Pink Tide: Art and Political Undercurrents in the Américas (UC Press 2018), a text of critical hope about the role of submerged art and solidarity in troubled times. She is also author of Where Memory Dwells: Culture and State Violence in Chile (UC Press 2009), and co-editor with Herman Gray of Towards a Sociology of a Trace (University of Minnesota Press 2010). She is working on a new book, At the Sea’s Edge (Duke University Press) that considers colonial oceanic transits and the generative space between land and sea. Macarena is the Founding Director of the Global South Center at Pratt Institute. Most recently, she received the Pratt Institute Research Recognition Award (2021-2022), the University of California, Santa Cruz Distinguished Alumni Award (2021-2022), and the Andy Warhol Curatorial Grant (2022-2023).
Gerszten Lecture organized by Professor Cole Rizki, UVA
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Detalles de la charla:
"Atacama: una práctica de investigación integrada"
En esta charla, Macarena Gómez-Barris refleja sobre cómo prácticas creativas y prácticas de escritura e investigación se entretejen como un palimpsesto de aproximaciones con relación al sitio central de su investigación: el Desierto Atacama. Dado el antropoceno colonial y el contexto continuo de daño ambiental, ruina y extractivismo, ¿cómo imaginamos el rol del humano y el no humano en el desierto?
Bio:
Macarena Gómez-Barris es una escritora y académica cuya investigación se enfoca en temas ambientales, la teoría decolonial y praxis, y las intersecciones con los feminismos queer/trans*. Es autora de tres libros: The Extractive Zone: Social Ecologies and Decolonial Perspectives (Duke University Press, 2017) que examina cinco escenas de capitalismo ruinoso extractivista. Beyond the Pink Tide: Art and Political Undercurrents in the Américas (UC Press 2018), un texto de esperanza crítica sobre el rol submergido del arte y solidaridad en tiempos complicados. Es también autora de Where Memory Dwells: Culture and State Violence in Chile (UC Press 2009), y co-editora con Herman Gray of Towards a Sociology of a Trace (University of Minnesota Press 2010). Actualmente está trabajando en un libro nuevo, At the Sea’s Edge (Duke University Press) que considera los tránsitos oceánicos coloniales y el espacio generativo entre la tierra y el mar. Macarena es la Directora Fundante del Centro del Sur Global del Instituto Pratt. Su investigación ha sido apoyada y reconocida por el Pratt Institute Research Recognition Award (2021-2022), the University of California, Santa Cruz Distinguished Alumni Award (2021-2022), y el Andy Warhol Curatorial Grant (2022-2023).
Ponencia Gerszten organizada por Profesor Cole Rizki, UVA
