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Edgar Garcia, Associate Professor of English at the University of Chicago and a poet and scholar of the hemispheric cultures of the Americas. 

Garcia works on the literatures and cultural practices that tend not to be taken seriously as literature and culture: the contemporary literature, visual art, legal philosophy, and environmental thinking of non-alphabetical sign systems such as pictographs and khipu; dreams; practices and textual formations of divination; magic; and creation stories. His scholarship and creative practices are concerned with the world-bearing qualities of literary works (especially poetics)—taking place at the intersection of anthropology and literary studies. 

In this storytelling-talk Garcia will explore some geoglyphs in the Sonoran Desert and their life at the intersection of indigeneity and migration in the Americas.