Dear all,

materia is thrilled to announce our first event of 2024, an Environmental Humanities Graduate Student Research Fair.

materia is a DLCL Research Unit focused on anthropodecentrisms, Latin Americanist and otherwise. Our 2023-24 yearly theme is narratives of the sociotechnical: infrastructure, telos, and scale.

What: a unique opportunity to engage with advanced graduate students currently working with environmental humanities from a diverse array of disciplinary backgrounds in a dynamic setting. Students will present a brief introduction of their present projects, followed by a discussion session moderated by Eric Kim.

When: Jan. 31st, 5-7pm

Where: Bolivar House (582 Alvarado Row)

Please RSVP here.

New attendants to materia are very welcome, especially among graduate students!

Presenters:

Nava Haghighi (Stanford Computer Science)

Alejandro Ponce de León (UC Davis)

María Zurita Ontiveros (Stanford TAPS)

Thomaz Amâncio (UChicago)

Discussant:

Eric Kim (Stanford Slavic Languages and Literatures)

We look forward to seeing you there. Please let us know if you have any comments and/or questions.

Cordially,

The materia team

Héctor, Ximena, Azucena, Sofía y João