SALSA 2019 Panels/Workshops XII Sesquiannual Conference

 

Thematic Panels, Workshops and Sessions

2019 SALSA XII Sesquiannual Conference, Vienna, Austria

THEMATIC PANELS

  • Meredith Cristina Castro Rios Final Report

    PANEL 01: Urban Imaginaries in Native Amazonia

    The 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…

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  • Meredith Cristina Castro Rios Final Report

    PANEL 02: Creating, Transforming, Transmitting

    This 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…

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  • Meredith Cristina Castro Rios Final Report

    PANEL 03: Indigenous futures

    This 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,…

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  • Meredith Cristina Castro Rios Final Report

    PANEL 04: The Chibchan Peoples

    At 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…

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THEMATIC SESSIONS

WORKSHOP

  • Meredith Cristina Castro Rios Final Report

    WORKSHOP: Amerindian Linguistic Natures

    This 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…

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