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Conversations with Cabrera: Mauro Guillén
No full textPresented online January 26, 2021, 3:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m.Conversations with Cabrera are unscripted and informal, unearthing leadership’s thinking behind the big ideas taking shape across the Institute and trends likely to define our future. This video series is meant to capture candid conversations between President Ángel Cabrera and thought leaders across Georgia Tech and beyond.Ángel Cabrera, President, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA.Mauro Guillén, Zandman Professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and director of the Penn Lauder Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER).Runtime: 56:53 minutesPresident Ángel Cabrera in conversation with author and educator Mauro Guillén. They discuss the themes of Guillén's book, 2030: How Today's Biggest Trends Will Collide and Reshape the Future of Everything. Mauro Guillén’s bestselling book 2030 is both a remarkable guide to the coming changes and an exercise in the power of “lateral thinking,” thereby revolutionizing the way you think about cataclysmic change and its consequences
The Nature of Nature
No full textPresented online November 4, 2020, 6:00 p.m.-7:00 p.m.Conversations with Cabrera are unscripted and informal, unearthing leadership’s thinking behind the big ideas taking shape across the Institute and trends likely to define our future. This video series is meant to capture candid conversations between President Ángel Cabrera and thought leaders across Georgia Tech and beyond.Ángel Cabrera, President, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA.Enric Sala, a former university professor who saw himself writing the obituary of ocean life, quit academia to become a full-time conservationist. He founded and leads Pristine Seas, a project that combines exploration, research, and media to support and empower local communities and inspire country leaders to protect the last wild places in the ocean. Pristine Seas has helped to create 22 of the largest marine reserves on the planet, covering an area of 5.8 million square kilometers.Runtime: 55:25 minutesJoin President Ángel Cabrera in conversation with conservationist Enric Sala, current National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence and author of The Nature of Nature: Why We Need the Wild, which makes a clear case for why protecting nature is our best health insurance, and why it makes economic sense
Contrapunteos de Lydia Cabrera
No full textEven today in the history of Cuban anthropology, little attention is paid to the writer and anthropologist Lydia Cabrera, who has only recently begun to be part of the list of intellectuals in official Cuban culture. However, because of her work and life trajectory, Cabrera can be considered the modern founder of studies on Afro-Cuban religions.
The main purpose of this text is to analyse Lydia Cabrera’s ethnographic work based on the idea that there was a ‘counterpoint’, a dialogue, a metaphorical game, between the liminal identity of the author herself – manifested in a racial, cultural, gender, social and political sense – and her interest and dedication to the contribution of slaves and the population of African origin to the history, culture and, ultimately, the identity of their Cuban homeland.Todavía hoy en la historia de la antropología cubana se presta poca atención a la escritora y antropóloga Lydia Cabrera, quien solo muy recientemente ha empezado a formar parte de la nómina intelectual de la cultura cubana oficial. Sin embargo, en función de su obra y trayectoria vital puede considerarse a Cabrera como la fundadora moderna de los estudios sobre las religiones afrocubanas.
El objeto central de este texto es analizar el trabajo etnográfico de Lydia Cabrera a partir de la idea de que existe un contrapunteo, un diálogo, un juego metafórico, entre la identidad liminar de la propia autora -manifiesta en un sentido racial, cultural, de género, social y político- y su interés y dedicación a la aportación de los esclavos y la población de origen africano a la historia, a la cultura y, en última instancia, a la identidad misma de su patria cubana
BOSQUES Y CAMBIO CLIMÁTICO
No full textComité científico del simposio
Director
Luis Fernando Osorio Vélez, Ph.D.
Universidad Nacional de Colombia, sede Medellín. Colombia.
Bosques y cambio climático
Adriana Patricia Yepes Quintero, M.Sc.
Consolidación Sistema de Monitoreo de Bosques y Carbono. Colombia.
Edersson Cabrera M., Esp.
IDEAM. Colombia
BOSQUES Y CAMBIO CLIMÁTICO
No full textComité científico del simposio
Director
Luis Fernando Osorio Vélez, Ph.D.
Universidad Nacional de Colombia, sede Medellín. Colombia.
Bosques y Cambio Climático
Edersson Cabrera Montenegro,
Instituto de Hidrología, Meteorología y Estudios Ambientales de Colombia. Colombia.
Adriana Patricia Yepes, M.sc.
ONF Andina. Colombia
OBREGON, Alvaro (Gral.); CABRERA, Luis (Lic.)
No full textFile originally titled “Gen. Alvaro Obregón. File number 5. Subject: B.A. Luis Cabrera. Letter signed by Clemente Reynoso on April 29-919”. Clemente Reynoso is a pseudonym of Gen. Alvaro Obregón, used when answering a letter written by B.A. Luis Cabrera, Secretary of Finance and Public Credit. In said letter, Cabrera addresses three issues: How friends are made using an elevated position. How those friends are “political dead weight” and why the author himself did not make friends by using his position as Secretary of Finance and Public Credit. Clemente Reynoso analyzes the three points, harshly criticizing Cabrera. (This letter can also be found in series 11020700, file C-20, “CABRERA, Luis”, in the Alvaro Obregón database and in series 13010201 “Documents in a Lock Box. CABRERA, Luis; Clemente REYNOSO”, file 10/7 from this same Database). / Cédula titulada originalmente "Señor General Alvaro Obregón. Expediente número 5. Asunto: Lic. Luis Cabrera. Carta firmada por Clemente Reynoso al. Abril 29-919". Clemente Reynoso es un seudónimo del Gral. Alvaro Obregón, quien contesta una carta del Lic. Luis Cabrera, Secretario de Hacienda y Crédito Público, en la que Cabrera aborda tres asuntos: Cómo se fabrican amigos estando en un puesto elevado. Cómo esos amigos son el "lastre político" y por qué no fabricó amigos usando el puesto de Secretario de Hacienda y Crédito Público. Clemente Reynoso analiza los tres puntos criticando duramente a Cabrera. (Esta carta se encuentra también en la serie 11020700, expediente C-20, "CABRERA, Luis" del Fondo Alvaro Obregón y en la serie 13010201 "Documentos en Caja. CABRERA, Luis; Clemente REYNOSO", expediente 10/7 de este mismo Fondo)
OBREGON, Alvaro (Gral.); CABRERA, Luis (Lic.)
No full textFile originally titled “Gen. Alvaro Obregón. File number 5. Subject: B.A. Luis Cabrera. Letter signed by Clemente Reynoso on April 29-919”. Clemente Reynoso is a pseudonym of Gen. Alvaro Obregón, used when answering a letter written by B.A. Luis Cabrera, Secretary of Finance and Public Credit. In said letter, Cabrera addresses three issues: How friends are made using an elevated position. How those friends are “political dead weight” and why the author himself did not make friends by using his position as Secretary of Finance and Public Credit. Clemente Reynoso analyzes the three points, harshly criticizing Cabrera. (This letter can also be found in series 11020700, file C-20, “CABRERA, Luis”, in the Alvaro Obregón database and in series 13010201 “Documents in a Lock Box. CABRERA, Luis; Clemente REYNOSO”, file 10/7 from this same Database). / Cédula titulada originalmente "Señor General Alvaro Obregón. Expediente número 5. Asunto: Lic. Luis Cabrera. Carta firmada por Clemente Reynoso al. Abril 29-919". Clemente Reynoso es un seudónimo del Gral. Alvaro Obregón, quien contesta una carta del Lic. Luis Cabrera, Secretario de Hacienda y Crédito Público, en la que Cabrera aborda tres asuntos: Cómo se fabrican amigos estando en un puesto elevado. Cómo esos amigos son el "lastre político" y por qué no fabricó amigos usando el puesto de Secretario de Hacienda y Crédito Público. Clemente Reynoso analiza los tres puntos criticando duramente a Cabrera. (Esta carta se encuentra también en la serie 11020700, expediente C-20, "CABRERA, Luis" del Fondo Alvaro Obregón y en la serie 13010201 "Documentos en Caja. CABRERA, Luis; Clemente REYNOSO", expediente 10/7 de este mismo Fondo)
Dismantling Political Mythologies: Cabrera Infante’s Essays of Mea Cuba
No full textIn light of the approaching fifty years of the Cuban Revolution and the ongoing interest in revolutionary images (Che Guevara exhibition at the RA summer 06), and in light of the recent death of Cuban author Guillermo Cabrera Infante, this article analyses Cabrera Infante’s essays of the collection Mea Cuba. The article argues essentially that many historical events and figures of the Cuban Revolution (up to today) have been recorded and understood in a manner akin to Roland Barthes ‘mythologisation process’. As a result, Cabrera Infante, as author, operates as a ‘demythologiser’ of such perspectives, exposing the distance between the reality of a historical event and its contemporary recording. But can Cabrera Infante’s text be deemed to be free of the rhetorical devices that he ascribes to propaganda texts? The possible dichotomy between heroism and suicide in relation to Che Guevara’s death, for example, is accordingly analysed from a position objectively removed from the politically-polarized perspectives of either official history or Cabrera Infante’s subversive revisionism. The article highlights issues of interpretation outside of Cuba of historical accounts, and draws attention to the mythologising process at work in the recording of such a socially and politically emotive era
Historical and potential extinction of shrub and tree species through deforestation in the department of Antioquia, Colombia
No full textWe assessed the expected historical and current speciesrichness of shrubs and trees in the Department of Antioquia,northwest region of Colombia. We used the Fisher´s alpha valueassociated with the pooled dataset of identified species in 16 1-haplots that were used to extrapolate the scaled species richness ofthe Antioquia Province under three different scenarios: 1) the entireregion before deforestation began, assuming an original forestcover of around 92% of the entire province (excluding paramos,rivers, and lakes). 2) The forest cover in 2010. 3) The expected forestcover in 2100 assuming the observed deforestation rate between2000 and 2010 as a constant. We found that, despite relativelylow local and global losses of species, global extinctions in termsof number of species could be dramatically high due to the highendemism and deforestation rates.</p
Xirú e “Abaporu” de Damián Cabrera: configurações do “comum” da comunidade / Xirú and “Abaporu” by Damián Cabrera: Community “Common” Settings
No full textResumo: O estudo discute o “comum” (ESPOSITO, 2012; NANCY, 2000) a partir do livro Xirú e do conto “Aboporu” de Damián Cabrera, autor cuja escrita encontra-se pautada nas relações Brasil-Paraguai. Nestas obras estão colocadas em evidência a crise de uma concepção essencialista de comunidade, dada e/ou determinada previamente e o distanciamento do “paradigma moderno imunitário” (ESPOSITO, 2012) que se impõe contra qualquer convivência ou contágio que afete a pretensa pureza da comunidade. Sendo a língua um elemento inerente ao pensamento comunitário, parte-se, também, de certa perspectiva “translingue” (MELLO & ANDRADE, 2019) utilizada pelo autor e que expõe os contatos entre as línguas e as interferências como continuum naturais, transitórios, imprevistos que se articulam nas relações entre estas culturas e não como substâncias dadas previamente.Não menos importante, neste sentido, é a antropofagia manifesta no conto “Abaporu”, uma antropofagia nada ufanista pois, como a perspectiva “translingue” que manifesta Xirú, não é identitária e sim, como têm apontado as leituras contemporâneas que dela fazem Alexandre Nodari (2011), Florencia Garramuño (2019) e Eduardo Sterzi (2017), uma antropofagia como experimentação da diversidade, e com ênfase em uma posição relacional. Desse modo, o “comum” nestas obras se constitui como aquilo que não é próprio à comunidade, como substâncias que se compartilham, mas como laço relacional.Palavras-chave: Damián Cabrera; comum; translinguismo; antropofagia.Abstract: The study discusses the “common” (ESPOSITO, 2012; NANCY, 2000) based on the book Xirú and the short story Aboporu by Damián Cabrera, an author whose writing is based on Brazil-Paraguay relations. These works highlight the crisis of an essentialist conception of community, given and/or determined in advance, and the distancing from the “immunitarian modern paradigm” (ESPOSITO, 2012) that imposes itself against any coexistence or contagion that affects the alleged purity of the community. Since language is an inherent element of community thinking, it also starts from a certain “translingual” perspective (MELLO & ANDRADE, 2019) used by the author and which exposes contacts between languages and interferences as a natural, transitory, unforeseen continuum that are articulated in the relations between these cultures and not as previously given substances. No less important, in this sense, is the anthropophagy manifested in the short story “Abaporu”, an anthropophagy that is far from boastful because, like the “translingual” perspective that manifests Xirú, it is not identity but, as pointed out by contemporary readings made by Alexandre Nodari (2011), Florencia Garramuño (2019) and Eduardo Sterzi (2017), an anthropophagy as an experimentation with diversity, and with an emphasis on a relational position. In this way, the “common” in these works is constituted as what is not proper to the community, as substances that are shared, but as a relational bond.Keywords: Damián Cabrera; common; translingual; anthropophagy
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