Oralituras are writings that take place alongside orality, according to proposals initiated in Haiti, Senegal, Chile and Colombia a few decades ago.  Through reflections on the works of Amazonian creators such as Candre and Muruy, as well as in dialogue with the poetry of Juan Carlos Galeano, a Colombian poet based in the United States, the lecture will introduce us to some of the ethical and aesthetic universes of the contemporary poetic word.

By introducing other forms of literary language, it will also be argued that the current climate crisis is not only happening at the atmospheric and climatic level, but also in our human-nature relations. Climate change, or global disruption, is also a crisis of language, as will be argued through relationships primarily with water and the forest.

In short, questions will be raised from an intercultural and artistic-literary perspective, from reflections based on nature writings, myths, Andean-Amazonian texts and theoretical proposals set out in Reforestar la imaginación (Fondo de Cultura Económica de México), the most recent book by Miguel Rocha Vivas.

Bio note

Miguel Rochas Vivas: Nature writer, essayist, photographer, novelist. He creates and researches in the fields of geophilosophies, oralituras, indigenous scripts, holistic languages and the relationships between nature and culture as well as between land, mind and spirituality. Ph.D. in Languages and Literatures, University of North Carolina. M.A. in Social Sciences. Visiting Professor at numerous universities in Asia, Europe, Colombia, Latin America and the United States. Co-founder of the Centro de Estudios Ecoacústicos e Interculturales, la Red de Creación Intercultural and Mingas de la Imagen www.mingasdelaimagen.org

Researcher and associate professor at the Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, where he directs the Literature Department. He received the National Prize for Research in Literature in Colombia and won the Casa de las Américas Prize in Cuba with his book Mingas de la palabra. His most recent books are Arca e Ira (University of Guadalajara, 2019), Word Mingas (2021, UNC Press) Mingas de la imagen (co-editor, PUJ-Cultural Conservancy, California, 2022) and Textilos (PUJ-CAAAP-Pakarina, Peru, 2024) and Reforestar la imaginación (Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2024). Some of his work has been translated into Korean, Japanese, English, Tsotsil Maya, Namtrik, French and Kichwa.
 

Activity within the project ECO - Animals and Plants in Cultural Productions about the Amazon River Basin