This panel is convened and moderated by Macarena Gómez-Barris.
Luis E. Cárcamo-Huechante is C.B. Smith, Sr. Centennial Chair in United States-Mexico Relations #3 Associate Professor at the University of Texas, Austin. He is the author of Indigenous Interferences: Acoustic Colonialism and Mapuche Response (Duke University Press, forthcoming) and Tramas del mercado: imaginación económica, cultura pública y literatura en el Chile de fines del siglo veinte (Editorial Cuarto Propio, 2007) and coeditor (with Alvaro Fernández-Bravo and Alejandra Laera) of El valor de la cultura: arte, literatura y mercado en América Latina (Beatriz Viterbo Editora, 2007). He belongs to the Mapuche people and grew up in Tralcao, a rural village in the river region of Valdivia in southern Chile. He is a founding member of the Comunidad de Historia Mapuche (CHM), which is a collective of Indigenous, Mapuche researchers based in Temuco, southern Chile.
dg nanouk okpik is the author of the poetry collections Blood Snow (Wave Books, 2022), which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and Corpse Whale (University of Arizona Press, 2012), which won the American Book Award. She is also a recipient of the Truman Capote Literary Award, the May Sarton Award, and the Windham Campbell Prize. She is from Barrow, Alaska, and is Iñupiaq, Inuit. She lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Part of the Elemental Media Conference and Brown Arts’ IGNITE Series. Presented by the Elemental Media Lab in the Department of Modern Culture and Media.