Northrop Frye Centre Lecture | Hurricane Culture
Hurricane Culture: An Ecopoetics of Relations beyond the Hispanic Caribbean
Northrop Frye Centre (VC 102)
91 Charles St West Toronto, ON M5S1K5
The NFC is pleased to invite you to our first lecture of the academic year, given by Prof. Yairen Jerez Columbié (Trinity College Dublin).
About the Speaker
Dr Yairen Jerez Columbié is an Assistant Professor in Latin American Studies and Intercultural Communication and Deputy Director of the Centre for Global Intercultural Communications at the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultural Studies, Trinity College Dublin. She taught in the Universitat de Girona and University College Cork before joining Trinity College Dublin. She received her BA and MA from the Universitat de Girona after studying at the Universidad de La Habana, and obtained her PhD from University College Cork for a dissertation on cultural theories emerging from journalistic, philosophical, artistic and legal texts intertwined with nation-making processes in Latin America and Europe.
About the Talk
Dr Columbié is the author of the monograph Essays on Transculturation and Catalan-Cuban Intellectual History (2021), which revisits the concept of transculturation and transforms it in the light of Latin American and Caribbean histories and intersectional perspectives to study processes of construction of identities. Her peer-reviewed publications investigate intercultural communication, fluid identities, cultural translation, decolonial ecologies and eco-criticism in diverse countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as in Catalonia and Ireland. She led interdisciplinary research at the Science Foundation Ireland Centre for Energy, Climate and Marine Research and Innovation (MaREI) to inform Irish and European environmental policies, and is co-editor of the volume Increasing Resilience to Climate Change: Integrating Disaster Risk Reduction, Sustainable Development Goals and Climate Change Adaptation (2022). Her current research focuses on the role of Latin American and Caribbean epistemologies in communicating climate change and shaping global responses to environmental challenges. Dr Jerez Columbié brings to TCD her experience in designing and undertaking research that connects scientists, artists, intellectuals, communities, businesses and policymakers to support equity, diversity and inclusion in knowledge-making processes, international partnerships and the fair public uptake and use of science and technology.