Recycling Cultures: Poetics and Practices of Sustainability

Recycling Cultures: Poetics and Practices of Sustainability

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The Conference organizing committee invites presenters to submit, by midnight on November 1, abstracts for presentation related to relevant themes

Moments of crisis make possible new forms of expression, including cultural initiatives, social cooperatives, and political movements informed by diverse concepts of recycling and sustainability. “Recycling” engulfs more than reusing materials; it also means re-appropriating and repurposing ideas, resources, and forms of cultural production to new ends. For instance, the Cartonera publishing group

05/30/2018

29 de mayo de 1892: nace Alfonsina Storni, poetisa, maestra y escritora, protagonista del modernismo en las letras de Argentina.
Fuente: Agn Argentina Efemérides

Foto: Alfonsina Storni, 1925.
AGN_DDF/ Caja 122, Inv: 7760

Photos 01/13/2017

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LLORA LA GUITARRA. LLORAMOS TODOS

“Seguí guitarra, seguí, / seguí como yo llorando, / compañera hasta la muerte, / seguí mi alma consolando”.

Photos 02/28/2016

Romuald Hazoumé, maschere realizzate recuperando le taniche abbandonate dai contrabbandieri di petrolio tra Nigeria e Benin
il riuso creativo dei rifiuti su
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Photos 02/12/2016

Third and last panel comments by Dr. Van Arsdall

Photos 02/12/2016

Dr. Devine Guzman commenting the second panel

Photos 02/12/2016

Our first panel commentator, Dr. Gema Perez Sanchez

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We are waiting for you!

02/11/2016

Our International Presenters' Short Bios (panel #3):

Suchismita Dutta is a first year PhD student and a Graduate Assistant at the University of Miami. She did her Masters in English from the University of Delhi, India. She is interested in exploring contemporary Afro-American women’s literature and the shifting cultures of the Caribbean diaspora. She also has a strong background in Indian theatre and music.

Anne-Catherine Berry is a PhD student in Caribbean art at the Université des Antilles. Her research focuses on the fragmentation of the body in the visual arts in the French West Indies. She has published several articles in various journals among which some center on street art.

Leonardo Figueiredo Costa is doing a Postdoctoral Fellowship at University of Miami. He participates in the Multidisciplinary Center for Studies in Culture and the Observatory of Creative Economy .His degree is in Culture and Development by the Multidisciplinary Program of Studies in Culture and Society, and has spent a period at the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle.

http://mllgraduateconference.blogspot.com/2016/02/our-international-presenters-short-bios_39.html

UM MLL Graduate Conference 2016: Our International Presenters' Short Bios (panel #3)

UM MLL Graduate Conference 2016: Our International Presenters' Short Bios (panel #2) 02/10/2016

Our International Presenters' Short Bios (panel #2):

Gabby Benavente is a Literature Master's student at Florida International University, where he is currently doing research on the intersections between literature and environmental justice. He focuses on science fiction, and its role in shaping collective solidarity.

Nathalie Le Bouler is a PhD candidate under joint supervision between the Pós-Cultura - Programa Multidisciplinar de Pós-Graduação em Cultura e Sociedade at the Federal University of Bahia in Brazil and the CRILUS-Centre de Recherches Interdisciplinaires sur le monde Lusophone at the University Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense in France. Her research areas of interest are: indigenous issues related to education; collective memory; identity and autonomy.

Mario Alejandro Ariza is a Michener Fellow in poetry at the University of Miami’s Master in Fine Arts program. He holds a master’s degree in Hispanic Cultural Studies from Columbia University. He is the winner of the 2015 Small Axe magazine poetry contest. His research interests lie at the intersection of aesthetics and political power, and in autochthonously Caribbean modes of power and resistance.

http://mllgraduateconference.blogspot.com/2016/02/our-international-presenters-short-bios_10.html

UM MLL Graduate Conference 2016: Our International Presenters' Short Bios (panel #2) http://mllgraduateconference.blogspot.com/2016/02/our-international-presenters-short-bios_10.html

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