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Nov
17
2020

Talk with Brazilian Indigenous poet and author Marcia Kambeba

When: Tuesday, November 17, 2020
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM CT

Where: Online

Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students

Contact: Spanish and Portuguese   (847) 491-8249

Group: Department of Spanish and Portuguese

Category: Academic

Description:

Portuguese Language Program Invites you to meet,

Brazilian Indigenous Poet, Writer and Activist Marcia Kambeba

Marcia Bambeba has a Bachelor’s and a Master's degree in Geography, the latest from Amazonas Federal University. She documented the history of the Omágua Kambeba people from the sixteenth to the twenty-first century, examining the relationship between territory, identity, and ethnicity. She is a writer and a poet. Her poetry denounces the invisible life of indigenous peoples. She is running for Belém do Pará city council.

On this link you can read one of her thought-provoking books, "O Lugar do Saber".

Please Register for the Zoom link.

*The talk will be in Portuguese

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