The ELTE Latin American Research Center and the Brazilian Center will host a lecture by Kathryn Bishop-Sánchez at ELTE Faculty of Humanities.

This talk explores how queer and women artivists in the Brazilian Amazon, from vegetal drag to the hands of women who embroider, create embodied ecologies of resistance. Confronting the violences of dams, pollution, and extraction, their performances bring bodies, forests, and rivers into relations of care, memory, and insurgency. Through gestures of refusal, mourning, repair, and collective survival, they challenge extractive ways of seeing the Amazon while making other relations to land and water perceptible. Blending performance and ecological artivism, these practices move beyond resistance alone to imagine other ways of living with threatened worlds, where to resist is also to root, to stitch, to listen to rivers, and to breathe with the earth.

Kathryn M. Bishop-Sánchez is a Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and an internationally recognized scholar of Portuguese-language cultures and literatures. Her research focuses on Portuguese and Brazilian literature, Lusophone cultures, gender studies, and questions of artistic and cultural representation in Latin America. Since 2015, she has served as Editor-in-Chief of the Luso-Brazilian Review, and her work has appeared in leading international journals in the field. She is a frequent guest lecturer at prestigious universities in Europe and North America, and her most recent monograph was published by Vanderbilt University Press.