Scholarly Colloquia and Events

  • 9/20 Defending Rights of Isolated Tribes in the Amazon

    TERTULIA with Scott Wallace: "Speaking for Those Who Cannot Speak for Themselves: Defending the Rights of Isolated Tribes in the Amazon."

     

    Thursday, Sept. 20, 12:00 noon

    Lunch - RSVP to elinstituto@uconn.edu

    Ryan Buildling, Room 240

     

    Scott Wallace, Associate Professor of Journalism, University of Connecticut; Speaker, Researcher and Author of Unconquered (2011), Wallace has published in National Geographic as well as Smithsonian Magazine.

    Wallace will discuss his work with indigenous isolated tribes in the Amazon. He will also speak about his recent cover story published in National Geographic about efforts to save a besieged isolated tribe in Brazil’s eastern Amazonian region.

    For more information, contact: El Instituto at elinstituto@uconn.edu