October 29th, Thursday. 1:00-2:30. Knight Library, Room 122. Guest speaker José Antonio Mazzotti will engage graduate students and faculty members in a conversation about the future of the field of Latin American Studies in U.S. research universities. Please join us for an open conversation. Coffee and cookies.

Thursday, October 29th, 2015
3:30 p.m. Browsing Room, Knight Library.

Through interdisciplinary research and recent fieldwork, this talk will present an ongoing project that documents an endangered community: the Iskonawa of the Peruvian central Amazon forest. The Iskonawa oral tradition is full of knowledge about nature and survival strategies that speak volumes about the environment and the possibility of coexistence among humans and between humans and nature. However, like all indigenous societies in Latin America, the Isknonawa are threatened by deforestation, contamination, crime and drug trafficking. This case study also sheds light on canonic texts of the indigenista literary tradition and challenges some premises of postcolonial and decolonial theory.[embeddoc url=”https://las.uoregon.edu/files/2015/10/Poster-Mazzotti-UO-visit-2bd69jn.pdf” download=”all” viewer=”google”]