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Join us at our 20th Annual Tinker Symposium and learn about the summer field research of funded graduate students on Thursday, November 6th at the Student Union, Kiva Theater.
Schedule:
- 9:30am-10:00am - Morning Reception
- 10:00am-10:15am - Welcome & Introductions
- 10:15am -11:25am - Session 1 | Narrative Approaches to Social Histories: Language, Bureaucracy, and Return
- 11:30am-12:40pm - Session 2 | Environmental Resistance: Diverse Strategies for Building Resilience
- 12:40pm-1:40 pm - Lunch Break
- 1:45pm-2:55pm - Session 3 | Social Determinants of Health Across Latin America
- 3:00pm-3:50pm - Session 4 | Between Stars and Stone: Reviving Ancient Knowledge
- 3:50pm-4:00 pm - Break
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Daniel Ruiz-Serna
4:00pm-5:00pm - Keynote Lecture: "Wounded Lands, Resentful Mountains, and Mourning Maize. The Politics of More-than-Human Harm in Colombia."
5:00pm-6:00pm - Reception at Cork & Craft
"Wounded Lands, Resentful Mountains, and Mourning Maize. The Politics of More-than-Human Harm in Colombia (and beyond)."
This talk discusses current planetary ecological crisis described as the Anthropocene has its roots, at least in Latin America, in the erasure of Indigenous peoples and the erosion of their local relationalities. Armed conflict and political violence have served as powerful instruments in this endeavour. In dialogue with recent approaches that highlight how war reverberates through large communities of life wherein humans and their orders are not the only ones, this presentation explores the ethical and epistemological challenges that arise when Indigenous protocols of witnessing locate harm in entities such as rivers, mountains, or spirits. These beings often fall outside the scope of dominant frameworks like human rights or environmental assessments. What does it mean to take these forms of more-than-human memory seriously, and what forms of justice might they require?