THEMATIC PANELS
PANEL 01: Urban Imaginaries in Native Amazonia
Read moreThe powerful allure that big cities have exerted, and continue to exert, over the imaginaries of native Amazonian peoples has transformed these places into models for the representation of extreme alterity under the guise…
PANEL 02: Creating, Transforming, Transmitting
Read moreThis panel focuses on creative processes and the semantics fields of formation, reproduction and reconfiguration of life, the world and the living. Which actions and processes are involved in creative processes? Which technics and…
PANEL 03: Indigenous futures
Read moreThis panel considers how indigenous Amazonians imagine, discuss and negotiate the future amidst radical economic and political changes that are affecting Amazonia and Latin America more broadly – such as growing urbanisation, migratory processes,…
PANEL 04: The Chibchan Peoples
Read moreAt contact, the Chibchan speaking peoples inhabited a compact zone stretching from southeastern Central America to far northwestern South America. Although the linguistic and genetic similarity of these peoples is well documented, they manifested…
THEMATIC SESSIONS
Thematic Session 1: Outside views and indigenous realities
Read moreThematic Session 1: Outside views and indigenous realities SALSA XII Sesquiannual Conference – Vienna, 2019 Chair: Natalia García...
Thematic Session 2: Sensing and knowing a transforming world
Read moreThematic Session 2: Sensing and knowing a transforming world SALSA XII Sesquiannual Conference – Vienna, 2019 Chair: Carlos...
Session 3: Ambivalent Encounters: Emotions, Memory, Power
Read moreThematic Session 3: Ambivalent Encounters: Emotions, Memory, Power SALSA XII Sesquiannual Conference – Vienna, 2019 Chair: Jeremy M. Campbell,...
WORKSHOP
WORKSHOP: Amerindian Linguistic Natures
Read moreThis workshop aims at exploring “natures of language” in indigenous collectives of Lowland South America, following the approach we have developed in the 2018 Language & Communication special issue “Language in the Amerindian Imagination.” In the workshop we will…