Event time:
Friday, February 28, 2025 - 11:00am
Location:
Online via Zoom, and 230 Prospect Street, Room 101
Event description:
Santiago Acosta, Assistant Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Yale University, will present the next Agrarian Studies paper of the Spring 2025 semester. For these seminars, participants send papers in advance that are the focus of an organized discussion by the faculty and graduate students associated with the colloquium. Meetings are held in a hybrid format, both on Zoom and in-person at 230 Prospect Street, Room 101, on Fridays 11am–1pm Eastern. Please contact agrarian.studies@yale.edu to receive the meeting information and the password to download the paper from the Agrarian Studies website.
Santiago Acosta is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Yale University. He specializes in modern and contemporary Latin American literature and visual arts, which he examines through the lenses of cultural studies, political economy, and environmental theory. His book manuscript, We Are Like Oil: An Ecology of the Venezuelan Culture Boom, explores how literature and the visual arts interacted with the environmental shifts of the 1970s oil boom in Venezuela. He is also the co-editor of the volume Ecopoéticas y políticas ecológicas desde el Sur, currently under contract at Brill Academic Publishers. In 2021-23, he was the PRODiG Fellow at the State University of New York in Old Westbury, where he helped launch the institution’s new Environmental Studies degree.
Admission:
Free but register in advance