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We cordially invite you to a lecture by Professor Miguel Nenevé from the Federal University of Rondônia, titled "Literature on the Amazon and from the Amazon: writing and rewriting." It will take place at the Faculty of Humanities on October 13, 2026, at 8:30 in room 2.12.
Lecture annotation:
This lecture will focus on literature related to the Amazon, travel writing (beginning with Carvajal) and how this literature is now rewritten by Indigenous and Amazonian people. Prof. Nenevé argues that this movement is a decolonial movement which tries to pay more attention to local voices instead of repeating what coloniser people coming from other lands wrote about the local people.
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About the lecturer:
Nenevé holds a PhD in Literature (English Language Literature) from UFSC (Santa Catarina/ York University - Toronto - Canada (Thesis: Imperialism and Resistance in the Work of Margaret Laurence). He developed his postdoctoral research at Glendon College (York University), in "Translation and Decolonization" when he translated P.K. Page's work "Brazilian Journal" into Portuguese. He has taught and developed research on “Amazonia", "English Language Literature from a Postcolonial Perspective", "Travel Literatures on the Amazon", "Translation and Decolonization in the Amazon, “Canadian - Brazilian Literatures connections. , Education and Decolonization in the Amazon". Author or co-author of the books: Looking at the Amazon; Frontiers of Translation; Multiculturalism in the Amazon; Education and Diversity: Brazil-Canada Interfaces; Psychology and Education in the Amazon; Psychology and Health in the Amazon; He received grants from CNPq, ABECAN , CAPES and FAPERO for research projects focused the Amazon region, such as "Voices from the Border: Literature of Guyana from a Postcolonial Perspective"; “A Selva de Ferreira de Castro sob uma perspectiva pós-colonial”; “ Women in Jose Potyguara Terra Caída”; among others. He has supervised many these and dissertations with focus on Amazonian culture and literature. Nenevé has worked as a visiting professor at some foreign institutions, including UG (University of Guyana - Georgetown), Texas Tech University (Lubbock, Texas); visiting scholar at York University, (Toronto), New Mexico University (Albuquerque – NM), Bridgewater State University (Massachusetts). Professor Nenevé exercised the function or vice-rector of the Federal University of Rondonia, is founder and editor of the Igarape - a journal of Studies in Literature, Culture and Otherness ; Vice-president of ABECAN, director of the NEC - Center for Canadian Studies. In creative writing, he is the author of books of short stories and poems, such as, Dead Leaves (Pendas- Canada); Other Times and Other Stories (S Paulo), Have you heard the owl hooting? (s. Paulo)r, Antes que Anoteça[ Before it gets dark] (Baraúna - São Paulo); Pelos Caminhos do Olhar (Porto Velho); En los caminos de las miradas( P Velho); Nature, faces and places (P Velho); Até Parece que foi ontem (Temática- Porto Velho). He is also the author of tthree children's books: Não Fuja da Coruja [Don't run away from the owl]; Existe um Bradador, sim senhor;. and Zé Teodoro and the Bradador.