The University of La Laguna is celebrating the fourth edition of its international program, Campus America, with Ecuador as the guest country. Between October 9th and 18th, nearly thirty seminars will be held, featuring 170 speakers, addressing international cooperation in areas such as tourism, art and heritage, gender, health, and social rights.
Culture will play a major role in this edition of the campus, with more than eleven exhibitions, activities and seminars addressing topics such as Ibero-American choral music, cinema in rural environments and the challenges in the conservation of photographic heritage.
The Ecuadorian painting exhibition 'Equatorial Line, Universal Heartbeat' will kick off the campus's cultural content on Tuesday, October 8th, an exhibition that can be enjoyed in the Pablo González Vera Paraninfo Art Room.
The socio-cultural activity will continue the following day with the 'IV Ibero-American Choral Music Conference', 'The role of migrant associations in promoting change and social justice' and the academic seminar 'Gender, knowledge and intercultural and intersectional methodologies in Latin America: indigenism, interculturality, black feminisms and sexual diversity'.
On Thursday the 10th, the academic and cultural seminar 'Contemporary Ecuadorian Women Writers' will take place, featuring presentations by Ecuadorian authors Mónica Ojeda, Natalia García Freire, and María Fernanda Ampuero on their narrative work. On the 11th, another academic and cultural seminar will explore rural life and cinema.
The similarities between the traditions and culture of the archipelago and Ecuador will be the subject of analysis in the seminar 'Cocoa, music and dance from Ecuador to the Canary Islands: identity and heritage' on the 14th.
On that same day, attendees will be able to participate in the workshop on photogrammetric mosaic techniques in the digitization of cultural heritage.
To end the day, poet Yuliana Ortiz Ruano will discuss with researchers from the University of La Laguna, Paula Fernández Hernández and Katya Vázquez Schröder, issues such as precarity, memory, desire, carnival, and the neglect of the State in many regions of Ecuador.
On Tuesday the 15th, the complementary nature of film and music will be explored in greater depth with the screening and subsequent discussion of the feature-length musical documentary “93: Stories Told Through a Piano.” Director Guido Bajaña Yude will share his experience in the production process, and Ecuadorian composer Lyzbeth Badaraco will discuss her compositional process, which blends traditional Latin American rhythms with jazz.
The conservation of photographic heritage will also be addressed on Tuesday the 15th with the activity 'Challenges in the conservation of photographic heritage', which will serve as the final touch to the Campus America 2024 activity.
About Campus America
The University of La Laguna has been holding Campus America for over seven years, with the aim of strengthening academic, cultural, and social ties with the Americas. Under the motto "A Sea of Shared Knowledge," since its first edition in 2017, it has offered a unique platform for the exchange of experiences and the promotion of new projects among universities, institutions, and non-governmental organizations. Edition after edition, relationships with other institutions and society have grown, fostering the mutual transfer of knowledge for the betterment of the Canary Islands and the Americas.
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