The lecture will take place on Wednesday, January 14, at 11:00 a.m. in Room 104 of the main building of the Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Náměstí Jana Palacha 2, Prague.
Date: January 14, 2026
Venue: Room 104
Registration: Not required, everyone is welcome.
Lecture summary: In this lecture, Adalberto Müller will present an approach to contemporary thinking about forests as living beings and niches of diversity, based on texts by writers, thinkers, activists, and also on texts from the indigenous cosmologies of the peoples of Brazil’s rainforest.
Adalberto Müller is a professor of literary theory at Universidade Federal Fluminense in Niterói, Rio de Janeiro. In 2013, he was a visiting researcher at Yale University and a visiting professor at Université de Lyon2, France (film studies). He has published books and articles on film and media studies, translation theory, and literary theory, and has translated the complete poems of Emily Dickinson into Portuguese. He is currently researching the cosmologies of the South American Tupí-Guaraní peoples and their „poetry“ or verbal arts.
