Pondering on multiple Amazonian futures

A Policy-Science-Art Dialogue

Format and program:

Join us for a thought-provoking panel discussion that brings together voices from the sciences, politics, and the arts to engage in a multifaceted exploration of the Amazon region. The event will delve into the Amazon’s complex past, its pressing nowadays challenges, and ponder visions for possible futures. Through an interactive format incorporating fiction, imagery, video, music, and other media, panelists will draw on their diverse disciplinary backgrounds and lived experiences to foster a dynamic dialogue that challenge existing views of the Amazon as merely "the lungs of the earth". The event is organised by the Prodigy research project (https://prodigy-biotip.org/) and students from the Institute for Latin American Studies (LAI/FU). 

Confirmed panelists:

Angélica Mendes, Biologist, PhD in Ecology and Evolution and Project Manager at the Chico Mendes Committee, Chico Mendes Extractive Reserve, Acre, Brasil

Kailane Silva, Student, Resident of the Chico Mendes Extractive Reserve, part of the Varadouro Collective and the Chico Mendes Committee's Forest Women's Network project

Carlos Rittl, PhD, Director of Public Policy at Wildlife Conservation Society

Yaká Huni Kuin, Visual Artist and Apprentice of the Forest. Member of the Huni Kuin Indigenous People. She will be calling in from Acre, Brazil, to talk about one of her artworks that is on display.

Living Gaia e. V. Supporting the Huni Kuin and Forest Rights in the Southwestern Amazon

Marco Teixeira, PhD, Transformation Sociologist and Mecila-Fellow: Climate Crisis, Just Transitions, and Narratives of Conviviality-Inequality

Objective:

The panel discussion ‘Amazonian Knowledge Dialogue - Pondering on multiple Amazonian futures’ aims to shed light on the different perspectives and futures of the Amazon region by bringing different disciplines and actors into dialogue with each other. In particular, the dialogue wants to promote different forms of “knowing” between science, politics and art on the multiple pasts, presents and futures of the Amazon region. The event is inspired by the text by Terry et al. (2024) and aims to create an interdisciplinary space in which different perspectives on the Amazon, cultures and environmental challenges can be discussed and co-exist. 

 

Date and time: 

13th June from 14:00 to 16:30h

Venue: 

Institute for Latin American Studies (LAI), Freie Universität Berlin, Rüdesheimer Str. 54 / 56, 2nd floor, Room 201

Catering: 

Coffee and Cake

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Literature

Naomi Terry, Azucena Castro, Bwalya Chibwe, Geci Karuri-Sebina, Codruţa Savu, Laura Pereira (2024): "Inviting a decolonial praxis for future imaginaries of nature: Introducing the Entangled Time Tree", Environmental Science & Policy,
Volume 151