The seminar ‘Risk(s), ecology and counter-colonialism’ will be one of the closing activities of the postdoctoral research through a dialogue between the supervisor, Patrícia Vieira, and the researcher, Harlon Homem de Lacerda Sousa, presented and discussed during the VIII Semana de Letras at the Professor Possidônio Campus of the State University of Piauí - UESPI, in the city of Oeiras-Pi, Brazil. In addition, it will feature a mini-course taught by Professor Patrícia Vieira as part of the Week's activities, under the theme: ‘Environmental Humanities in Brazil’.

Programme

Risk(s), ecology and counter-coloniality
Cosmologies of Literature
Postdoctoral research in Piauí and Coimbra

Bio notes

Patrícia Vieira is a Senior Researcher at the Centre for Social Studies (CES) of the University of Coimbra. Her areas of research are Iberian and Latin American Literature and Cinema, Utopia Studies and Environmental Humanities. Her most recent books are States of Grace: Utopia in Brazilian Culture (SUNY, 2018) and the co-edited book The Mind of Plants: Narratives of Vegetal Intelligence (Synergetic Press, 2021). Vieira is developing the project ECO - Animals and Plants in Cultural Productions about the Amazon Basin, funded by a Consolidator grant from the European Research Council (ERC). For more information: http://www.patriciavieira.net/ For information on the ECO project, see: eco.ces.uc.pt

Harlon Homem de Lacerda Sousa is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Centre for Social Studies at the University of Coimbra, working on the project ‘Theory of literary narrative in a countercolonial and Amefrican cosmoperception’. He is a professor in the Portuguese Language and Literature programme at the State University of Piauí - Professor Possidônio Queiroz Campus (UESPI-OEIRAS). In 2018, he defended his doctoral thesis, ‘The Architectural Structures of João Guimarães Rosa's Fiction’.