The Amazon as a New Centrality

Centre for Global Intercultural Communications

with Professor Francisco Foot Hardman (State University of Campinas (Unicamp), Brazil)

Trinity Long Room Hub

<h3>REGISTRATION from 12:15pm with light lunch available.</h3> <h3>The Amazon as a New Centrality: a Contemporary Challenge for all our Interactions</h3> The Amazon region occupies 60% of the entire Brazilian territory. Its international breadth in South America covers 9 of its 13 countries. The tropical forest is its main biome, covering 6 million and 700 thousand km2 of its entire river basin.The predation of its forests and minerals began in the colonial period, a process that was called “ancient brutality” by Euclides da Cunha. Unfortunately, this process has accelerated uncontrollably since the end of 19th century, with the “rubber cycle” and, much more seriously, in the last 50 years, with the penetration of the imperialist capitalism throughout the region.Among the biggest contemporary challenges, which must mobilize all the good energies in the world, in the Global South as well as in the Global North, is that of placing the Amazon as a new centrality of another globalization that we must dream and for which we must work every day. Globalization that makes a common home possible on planet Earth: without wars, without inequality and without destruction, neither of human lives nor of the many other lives that have made our trajectory possible until here-and-now. <h3>About the speaker</h3>Francisco Foot Hardman is a full professor at the Institute of Language Studies at the State University of Campinas (Unicamp), Brazil, where he has worked since 1987. More recently, he was a visiting professor of Brazilian Literature and Culture at Peking University (PKU or BEIDA, 2019-2020). Among his published works, the following stand out: The Revenge of Hylean: the Amazon of Euclides and the Utopia of a New History (new ed., 2023); Ghost Train: the Madeira-Mamoré Railway and Modernity in the Jungle (2005); Neither Homeland nor Boss! Worker’s Memory, Culture and Literature in Brazil (new ed., 2024); My China Diary: Current China through the Eyes of a Brazilian (PKU Press, 2021). <h3>About the event series</h3>This event is the first of a series titled Global Intersections organised by Trinity College Dublin's <a href="https://www.tcd.ie/interculturalcommunications/" title="https://www.tcd.ie/interculturalcommunications/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Centre for Global Intercultural Communications</a>. The Centre is supported by the Higher Education Authority's <a href="https://hea.ie/skills-engagement/human-capital-initiative-pillars-1-2-and-3/" title="https://hea.ie/skills-engagement/human-capital-initiative-pillars-1-2-and-3/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Human Capital Initiative Pillar 3 (HCI Pillar 3</a><a href="https://hea.ie/skills-engagement/human-capital-initiative-pillars-1-2-and-3/" title="https://hea.ie/skills-engagement/human-capital-initiative-pillars-1-2-and-3/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">) </a>which aims to increase capacity in higher education to provide skills-focused programmes designed to meet priority skills needs. <h3>Centre contact</h3>Mary Clark, Administrator with the Centre for Global Intercultural Communications, may be contacted via email at cgic@tcd.ie with any queries.

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