Lecture 1: How to conceptualize the Amazon? From the imagination of novelist, travellers’ notes, naturalists and ethnologists’ surveys to a geographical space production and idea

Lecture 2: Indigenous cosmologies and land rights

Lecture 3: Ecological organization of the rubber economy: the case of Fordilândia

Lecture 4: Amazon as a cultivated forest in face of its resources exploitation

Lecture 5: The interplay of large agricultural properties, roads, mining and energy production

Lecture 6: Documentary: Serra Pelada The legend of the golden mountain (2016) and discussion

Lecture 7: Documentary: Belo Monte: After the Flood (2016) and discussion

Lecture 8: Ecology and climate control: a new regionalization?

Lecture 9: History and stories of the protected areas

Lecture 10: The Amazon as place for the global drug traffickinge, money laundering and violence

Lecture 11: Film: Xingu (2011)

Lecture 12: Modernization and Devastation in Brazilian Amazon

Lecture 13: Program collective evaluation, feedback, reflections on learning and thoughts