Nature Narrated: Voices of Film and Literature in the Environmental Humanities

The Institute for the History of Science (iHC) of the UAB will offer the seminar “Narrated Nature: Voices of Film and Literature in the Environmental Humanities”, which will explore environmental narratives co-produced through film and literature and how they contribute to academic research in the environmental humanities.

The programme will begin with a speech by  Carlos Tabernero (iHC) who will talk about cinema, history and narratives on nature. Rafael Andúgar (UB) will then talk about landscapes, materials, extractivism and postcolonial tensions in the novels Un episodio en la vida del pintor viajero by César Aira, and Lituma en los Andes by Mario Vargas Llosa. Marta Puxan-Oliva (UIB) will explain stories about our sea, planet and climate change. And finally, Marco Armiero, will offer a closing speech and a final debate session.

The seminar will be given in Catalan, Spanish and English and will take place on 7 March at 10:00 a.m. in the seminar room iHC-UAB.