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The international research network GEOPAM studies the spatial constructions of the Americas from modern times to the present 🌎 www.geopam.org / www.canoageopam.org
At the next conference of the Nodo Culturas Cartográficas, Teresa Shawcross, professor at Princeton University, will present her research "Malleable Geographies: mapping China on the Americas in Christopher Columbus' annotation of Marco Polo's description of the world." This Friday, November 14th!
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Travel accounts from remote and unknown territories offer perspectives from the ship that allowed explorers to “narrate the lived experience, describe the observed world, and draw new maps in order to possess it.”
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In the latest publication of our Canoa, María Jesús Benites, professor at the Universidad Nacional de Tucumán, Argentina, invites us to explore the European imagination on the Río de la Plata and its connections with the Strait of Magellan and Patagonia.
31.10.2025 18:37 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0This book recapitulates the history of New Spain from a maritime perspective. It seeks to explain how, after this territory became part of global networks, it became a central zone in the maritime networks that developed in the Atlantic and the Pacific.
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Guadalupe Pinzón Ríos, professor at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and member of Geopam, just published her book "Introducción a la historia marítima de Nueva España". Congratulations!
29.10.2025 19:10 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
We invite you to the colloquium "Penser le monde, écrire pour dominer? Antonio de Herrera y Tordesillas et l’entreprise géo-historiographique des Habsbourg d’Espagne (1580-1625)", on November 6th and 7th, in Paris. Some members of Geopam will participate in the event. Check it out!
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Due to their stinging trichomes, nettles may not have the best reputation. Even so, this wandering herb has numerous uses and properties, explored for centuries in medicine, manufacturing, and even cooking. Learn more in the Herbal Calendar on our CANOA. 🌿🌾
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A preview of the book can be accessed at: books.google.com.br/books?id=sEm...
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Why was South America referred to as Peru, Peruana, or América Peruana? What role did Potosí play in shaping such designations? And how did these perceptions affect Brazil? The book offers new insights into such questions, exploring continuities and shifts in European maps of South America.
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We congratulate Andréa Doré, professor at the Federal University of Paraná and member of Geopam, on the publication of her book "Mapping South American Promises: Potosí, Brazil, and European Visions"!
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This Thursday, 9/11, Kaytlin Ramírez Opazo will present her research on maritime visualities of the Port of Arica. The lecture will be in Spanish (link below). We look forward to seeing you there! 🗺️🌊
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Scholars interested in participating should submit their proposals in Spanish or English to congresonaufragios@gmail.com by March 31, 2026.
Check out the website for more information: sites.google.com/view/congres...
We invite you to the III Congreso Internacional Naufragios, to take place on November 26-28, 2026, at the Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Viña del Mar, Chile! The Congress is an opportunity to bring together scholars with the aim of discussing Early Modern shipwrecks from different disciplines.
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Ornamental plant, ingredient for teas and infusions, detail on Greek columns, herb with magical powers: in these and other situations, the acanthus is a companion plant for humans, ants, bees, and hummingbirds. Read our article about this migratory herb in the Herbal Calendar in CANOA! 🌿🌾
01.09.2025 15:05 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
The dandelion is one of the most well-known migratory plants. We find it in parks, on paths, in gardens, and in cracks in the asphalt. Read our article about this small and resilient flower, including its culinary uses! 🌱💮
www.canoageopam.org/post/calenda...
Read more at: www.canoageopam.org/post/quando-...
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Jaguar-men are present in Indigenous narratives of both the past and present. They serve as a reminder that the past is a valuable source for understanding the many ways in which our behavior as humans varies according to our diverse encounters with other living beings. 🐆
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Check it out in: www.canoageopam.org/post/calenda...
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The cardoon (Cynara cardunculus) is the newest addition to our Herbal Calendar of traveling plants! This herb originates from the Mediterranean, but it's in Chile, during the spring, that its intense blue flowers are harvested and its raw stems served in a delicious and sophisticated salad. 🌿🥗
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Chicory is the third plant in our Herbal Calendar. Charismatic and with blue flowers, it is the country girl that appears on roadsides and around the edges of plantations. Its multiple medicinal and culinary uses make this plant a longtime companion of humans. 💐🌿
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important step toward “rethinking practices of territorialization, socioterritorial configurations, and the relationships between the human and the nonhuman”. 🦙
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Read the text by Kaytlin Ramírez Opazo, historian at the Universidad Adolfo Ibañez, Chile, on images of llamas! Addressing both European and Indigenous perspectives, Kaytlin argues that placing these camelids, so important to the history of the Andes, at the center of visual analysis is an +
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With a strong personality, the thornless blackberry grows quickly and travels long distances. From Mexico to Uruguay, this plant has multiple uses and is used by different cultures for a variety of purposes. Check it out in our Herbal Calendar, with a delicious blackberry crumble recipe! 🌿🌱
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We invite you to read the essay by Andréa Doré, one of the most recent publications in CANOA! In her text, Andréa demonstrates how the simple details of the landscape, like a tree on top of a hill, can carry meanings that go far beyond spatial orientation. 🌳
Check it out on www.canoageopam.org
Today we invite you to revisit the first entry in our Herbal Calendar of traveling plants, about the yuyo. With yellow flowers and a relative of broccoli and cabbage, the yuyo originated in Hungary to populate fields in Latin America and around the world. 🌿🌱
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