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  • What does the regreening of Antarctica mean for seemingly distant places like Mexico? Tania Ximena’s film La Marcha del Liquen [The Stride of Lichen] narrates the story of Antarctic glacier ice, its encounter with the sea, and the advance of lichen and moss. Meanwhile, on the Mexican coast, a community is forced to live only in memories.

    This screening of the film will be followed by a conversation between the director, Amanda Macedo Macedo (Ph.D. candidate in Theatre Arts and Performance Studies, graduate fellow at the Cogut Institute), and Iván Ramos (assistant professor of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies).

    Free and open to the public. For questions or to request special services, accommodations, or assistance, please contact humanities-institute@brown.edu or (401) 863-6070.


    About the Film

    La Marcha del Liquen [The Stride of Lichen]

    Mexico, 2024 | 29 min.

    Written and directed by Tania Ximena

    Voice: Esmeralda López Méndez | Portrait: Guadalupe Cobos | Cinematography: Tania Ximena (Isla Rey Jorge, Antarctica), Linda López H. Maldonado (Tabasco) | Editing and Post-production: Rogelio Díaz | Color and DCP: Omar Lara | VFX Tabasco: Rijl Habib | Direct Sound Recording: Tania Ximena (Isla Rey Jorge, Antarctica), Amanda Granda (Tabasco) | Music: Carlos Edelmiro | Sound Design and Mixing: Joel Argüelles | Local Production: Sister Ana Mayo, Sister María Esther Hernández | Production: Tania Ximena and ALJUIR Audiovisual | Language: Yokot’an and Spanish with English Subtitles

    This film was made possible thanks to the Colombian Antarctic Program (PAC) of the Colombian Ocean Commission (CCO), the Uruguayan Antarctic Institute (IAU) and the Artigas Base on King George Island, Antarctica, the Colombian Art in Antarctica Project (PCAA), the System of Supports for Creation and Cultural Projects (SACPC), the FEMSA Biennial, the Jumex Contemporary Art Foundation, Sony Mexico, Phonolab, Disruptiva Films, and Sergei Saldivar.


    About the Director

    Tania Ximena (b. 1985, Mexico) is a visual artist and filmmaker whose work is rooted in extensive field research. She has showcased her art in major Mexican museums, including Ex Teresa Arte Actual, the Museo de Arte Moderno, the Museo Jumex, and the Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil. Her work has also appeared in international exhibitions such as BIENALSUR (Argentina), the Orleans Architecture Biennale (France), and the Bienal Internacional de Arte SIART (Bolivia). In 2022, she became a fellow of Mexico’s National System of Art Creators. She has received the FONCA Young Creators grant three times and has been awarded the Mexican Cinema Promotion Grant from IMCINE on two occasions: one for script rewrites and another for production. Her debut feature film, Pobo ‘Tzu’ [White Night], won several awards, including the Grand Jury Prize Kaleidoscope at DOC NYC and the Critics Award at FICUNAM. She participated in the X Colombian Antarctic Expedition, which enabled her to shoot her video installation and short film La Marcha del Liquen [The Stride of Lichen] in Antarctica. She is also a cofounder of APECS Mexico.


    Presented by the Center for Environmental Humanities at Brown (CEHAB).

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    November 19th Seminar

    AI and Humanities Research

    Tara Nummedal (History, Brown) and Ashley Champagne (Center for Digital Scholarship, Brown)

    The Center for Digital Scholarship is working with faculty to experiment with Artificial Intelligence for their research in the humanities. This talk will share some of those experiments and why the humanities are critical in conversations about AI.

    Tara Nummedal is a Professor of History at Brown. She is the author of Alchemy and Authority in the Holy Roman Empire (University of Chicago Press, 2007), Anna Zieglerin and the Lion’s Blood: Alchemy and End Times in Reformation Germany (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019). She is Past President of the New England Renaissance Conference and a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Modern History and Ambix. She teaches courses in early modern European history and the history of science.

    Ashley Champagne is Director of the Center for Digital Scholarship (CDS), the University’s digital scholarship hub that provides inspiration, expertise, services, and teaching in digital scholarship methodologies, project development, and publication. She is also a Cogut Institute Lecturer in Humanities teaching courses in digital humanities. She is the PI of the “New Frameworks to Preserve and Publish Born-Digital Art,” a project funded by the National Endowment for the Arts, and the co-Research Director on the “Stolen Relations: Recovering Stories of Indigenous Enslavement in the Americas” project, which is funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

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    Data Matters is intended to stimulate conversations and collaboration by bringing multiple perspectives to challenging data-driven problems and talks are structured to be more of an interactive experience than traditional academic seminars. Data Matters includes scholars with backgrounds in the physical, biological, computational, and social sciences who share their perspectives on why data matters.

    Held on select Tuesdays at 3:00pm at the Data Science Institute.Light refreshments will be provided.

    Data Matters Seminar Series

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