Amazonia Now: Perspectives on a Region in Crisis November 16-19 Register in Advance (ZOOM WEBINAR) for Meetings: click here Florida State University / Harvard University / A COLLOQUIUM HOSTED BY University of California, Santa Barbara / THE PROGRAM OF PORTUGUESE University of California, Davis AT FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY
DAY I – MONDAY (16/NOV) DAY III – WEDNESDAY (18/NOV) VIOLENCE AND CULTURES OF RESISTANCE PAST AND CONTEMPORARY NARRATIVES 15:00PM (ET) 17:00PM (BSB) 12:00PM (ET) 14:00PM (BSB) VIOLENCE AND THE DISCOURSE OF THE STATE ON PEOPLE OF THE RAINFOREST INDIGENOUS POPULATIONS Moderator: Alexandre Cardoso - Federal University of Maranhão (UFMA) Moderator: Oscar de la Torre – University of North Caroline, Charlotte John Hemming – Author of Red Gold: The Conquest of the Brazilian Indians Idelber Avelar - Tulane University Barbara Weinstein - New York University Beatriz Azevedo - UNICAMP State University of Campinas / FAPESP Research Foundation Leopoldo Bernucci - University of California, Davis
17:00PM (ET) 19:00PM (BSB) 14:00PM (ET) 16:00PM (BSB) (…) AND THE VERB BECAME AMAZONIA: LINGUISTIC NEW EPISTEMOLOGIES: THE POLITICAL AND ETHNIC DIVERSITY AND NECROPOLITICS MOBILIZATION OF AMAZONIAN INDIGENOUS Moderator: Joaquim Barbosa - Federal University of the Amazonas (UFAM) POPULATIONS José Ribamar Bessa Freire - Rio de Janeiro State University (UERJ) Moderator: Diego Mejia - Florida State University Ivânia Neves - Federal University of Pará (UFPA) Enrique Leff - National Autonomous University of Mexico Pedro Rapozo - The Amazonas State University (UEA) DAY II – TUESDAY (17/NOV) THE COMPLEX FABRIC OF AMAZONIA 16:00PM (ET) 18:00PM (BSB) 12:00PM (ET) 14:00PM (BSB) CULTURE, MEMORY, AND TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE SOCIO-ENVIRONMENTAL CONFLICTS IN THE AMAZON Moderator: Marcos Colón - Florida State University Moderator: Jessica Carey-Webb - Natural Resources Defense Council Ailton Krenak - Krenak People Susanna Hecht - University of California, Los Angeles Erik Jennings - Doctor Responsible for the Zoé People Edna Castro - Federal University of Pará (UFPA) Angela Mendes - Alliance of Forest Peoples Jeffrey Hoelle – University of California, Santa Barbara DAY IV – THURSDAY (19/NOV) 15:00PM (ET) 17:00PM (BSB) A CALL TO ACTION: RESISTANCES PEOPLE OF THE FOREST BEYOND THE STATE 15:00PM (ET) 17:00PM (BSB) Moderator: Amanda M. Smith - University of California, Santa Cruz RESISTANCE BEYOND CONQUEST: INDIGENOUS PEOPLES Stefano Varese – University of California, Davis Aparecida Vilaça – Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) IN ISOLATION IN SOUTH AMERICA Carolina Comandulli – University College London Moderator: Felipe Milanez – Federal University of Bahia (UFBA) Antenor Vaz – Sertanista (Indigenous Protection Agent) Ângela Kaxuyana – Indigenous Organizations of the Brazilian Amazon (COIAB)
For more information and program details 17:00PM (ET) 19:00PM (BSB) email Dr. Marcos Colón at [email protected]. LEGAL STRATEGIES OF RESISTANCE Moderator: Adriana Ramos - The Instituto Socioambiental (ISA) Kretã Kaingang - APIB (Brazil’s Indigenous People Articulation) Camões Boaventura - Brazilian Federal Prosecutor