2019 SALSA XII Sesquiannual Conference – Vienna, Austria
The 2019 XII Sesquiannual Conference of SALSA was held June 27-30, 2019 at Weltmuseum Wien in Vienna, with Claudia Augustat (Weltmuseum) responsible for general conference organization, and Juan Alvaro Echeverri(Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Sede Amazonia), responsible for the academic program.
It was presented the Photo-Exhibition Forest of Mirrors, which is the result of a collaboration between anthropologist Stine Krøijer and photographer Mike Kollöffel. The material was generated through fieldwork in the Ecuadorian Amazon between 2014 and 2017, and it visually conveys the relationship between nature and culture in light of Sieko-Pai cosmology.
Five Film screenings, of recent productions by SALSA members.
The SALSA Conference Dinner was hold in the historical ambiance of the magnificent Hall of Columns (Säulenhalle) of the Weltmuseum Wien, which is located at the Corps des Logis of the Imperial Palace (Hofburg). This part of the Hofburg was built between 1902 and 1907 and was designed by the famous architect Gottfried Semper.
–Carlos D. Londoño Sulkin (SALSA President 2017-2020), Jeremy M. Campbell (SALSA President-Elect 2020-2023), Laura Zanotti (Secretary-Treasurer 2017-2020), Claudia Augustat (SALSA 2019 Conference Organizer), Juan Alvaro Echeverri (SALSA 2019 Academic Program Chair), Glenn Shepard (SALSA Webmaster).