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Soundscapes of Life and Loss in Latin America explores how sound—voice, silence, noise, vibration—registers ecological change, extinction, and survival across the region. Drawing from sound studies, environmental humanities, and Latin American literature and art, the seminar examines how listening becomes a critical and ethical practice in contexts marked by extractivism, colonial violence, and environmental degradation. Through poetry, literary and visual narratives, sound art, field recordings, and theory, students will attend to sonic archives of loss and resilience, from forests and deserts to polluted rivers and urban ruins. The course asks how life persists acoustically amid disappearance, and how listening can reimagine coexistence in damaged worlds.