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Andean Amazonian Symposium

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  • Event Date: 2025-04-25
  • Event Start Time: 9:00 AM
  • Event End Time: 5:40 PM
  • Event Location: ABW-5190
  • Event Contact: Paul Monjoy Forti This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.        Mildred López This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

QUIOSQUE 2025: Conversations in the Lusophone World

  • Topic: The Future of Mass Communications: Trends, Challenges, and Opportunities
  • Speaker: Fernando Morgado, Specialist in Creative Economy and Marketing
  • Date: September 22
  • Time: 7 PM (ET) / 20h (Brasília)
  • Language: The conversation will be in Portuguese
  • How to Join: Scan the QR code on the flyer to watch
  • Organizer: Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Rutgers-New Brunswick School of Arts and Sciences

I Andean and Amazonian Symposium 2025

  • Organizers: Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS) and the Andean-Amazonian Studies Working Group
  • Keynote Speaker: Américo Mendoza Mori, Ph.D., from Harvard University
    • Topic: "Global and Migrant Indigeneity: Quechua Language Reclamation in the Andes and Beyond"
  • Date: April 25
  • Time: 9:00 AM – 5:40 PM
  • Location: Academic Building West (ABW), Room 5190
  • Panel Topics:
    1. Indigenismo, Feminism, and the Power of Music as a Form of Resistance
    2. Environmental Narratives, Landscape, and Human Condition
    3. Exploring Authoritarianism, Subversion, Responses to Violence, and Colonial Territories in the Andes
    4. River Bodies, Environmental, Human, and Community Rights
    5. Rubber Exploitation, Abuse, Memory, and Literature

The Andean-Amazonian Studies Work Group at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, invites all graduate students and faculty interested to register and attend our inaugural Andean-Amazonia Symposium on April 25, 2025.

To register for the event, please fill out this form: https://forms.gle/WxXS1PYEpwJJd19i8

Read the official program here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1B2sta8jdlPBNe3wb-HW5sx0ZnyBz-WnTG5o5IUZRr2g/edit?usp=sharing