In this talk, the indigenous thinker and philosopher Ailton Krenak urges us to take seriously the value of the indigenous philosophies of the Americas when it comes to confronting the climate change crisis.
This conference brings together experts in the natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities from Columbia and outside institutions to participate in a highly interdisciplinary discussion of nature and society in Latin America. Engaging varied disciplinary and national perspectives, the conference takes a regional approach to land and natural resource use policies and politics on the premise that there are important social, economic, political, human rights and environmental interlinkages between different countries in the region that can provide the foundation for productively rethinking nature in Latin America.
In honor of the first Indigenous Peoples Day 2020 commemoration at Columbia University on 12 October 2020.
You are invited to a webinar/zoom event at 7 pm on "Indigenous Peoples of the Americas and the Covid-19 Pandemic"
Speakers:
Sachem HawkStorm, welcome from the Lenape People
Lisa Bellanger (Anishnabe), International Indian Treaty Council, Board of Directors
Dr. Myrna Cunningham (Miskita),President , Fondo para el Desarrollo de los Pueblos Indígenas de América Latina y el Caribe
Victor Lopez Carmen, (Crow Creek Sioux Tribe and Yaqui), Co-Chair Global Indigenous Youth Caucus
Tarcila Rivera Zea (Quechua), President, International Indigenous Women’s Forum, Vice-President, Chirapaq
Sara Nawashahu Yawanawá- Bergin (Yawanawa), Chief of Shukuvena Village
Janene Yazzie, (Diné (Navajo)), Dzit Asdáán (Strong Women) Command Center for Covid Relief
Organized by The University Seminar on Indigenous Studies, The University Seminar on Latin America and the Institute for the Study of Human Rights and cosponsored by Native American Council, Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race, Center for the Study of Social Difference, Mailman School of Public Health, Institute of Latin American Studies, at Columbia University, and Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Native Studies Forum and The Latinx Project at New York University.
For Zoom login information, please register here: https://bit.ly/2GPyOTP
Co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of Social Difference Environmental Justice, Belief Systems, and Aesthetic Experiences in Latin America and the Caribbean working group.
The Environmental Justice, Belief Systems and Aesthetic Experiences in Latin America and the Caribbean working group present a film screening of Antonio & Piti, followed by a Q&A with the film’s directors, Vincent Carelli and Wewito Piyãko.
A two-day event organized by the Environmental Justice working group including a screening of the film Ushui and workshop and discussion with the film makers.
