AMAZONIA NOW: PERSPECTIVE IN A REGION IN CRISIS
Nov 16-19, Florida State University (via Zoom)
SCHEDULE
November 15, 2020
16:00PM
The Pink Indian Against the Invisible Beast by Tiago Carvalho
(O Índio Cor de Rosa Contra a Fera Invisível – Noel Nutels)
Introduced by Alice Lopes, Florida State University, followed by a Q&A session
November 16, 2020
Welcome by Reinier Leushuis, the Chair of the Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics – Florida State University
Reading of “Curupira” by Juan Carlos Galeano, a homage to the people and land of the Amazon – Florida State University
Violence and Cultures of Resistance
- 3:00 p.m. (ET) 5:00 p.m. (BSB)
Violence and the Discourse of the State on Indigenous Populations
Moderator: Oscar de la Torre – University of North Caroline, Charlotte
Idelber Avelar - Tulane University
Beatriz Azevedo - Poet, Actress, Singer and Composer
- 5:00 p.m. (ET) 7:00 p.m. (BSB)
(...) And the Verb Became Amazonia: Linguistic Diversity and Necropolitics
Moderator: Joaquim Barbosa - Federal University of the Amazonas (UFAM)
José Ribamar Bessa Freire - Rio de Janeiro State University (UERJ)
Ivânia Neves - Federal University of Pará (UFPA)
November 17, 2020
The Complex Fabric of Amazonia
- 12:00 p.m. (ET) 2:00 p.m. (BSB)
Socio-Environmental Conflicts in the Amazon
Moderator: Jessica Carey-Webb - Natural Resources Defense Council
Susanna Hecht - University of California, Los Angeles
Edna Castro - Federal University of Pará (UFPA)
Jeffrey Hoelle – University of California, Santa Barbara
- 3:00 p.m. (ET) 5:00 p.m. (BSB)
People of the Forest Beyond the State
Moderator: Amanda M. Smith - University of California, Santa Cruz
Stefano Varese – University of California, Davis
Aparecida Vilaça – Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ)
Carolina Comandulli – University College London
November 18, 2020
Past and Contemporary Narratives
- 12:00 p.m. (ET) 2:00 p.m. (BSB)
People of the Rainforest
Moderator: Alexandre Cardoso - Federal University of Maranhão (UFMA)
John Hemming – Author of Red Gold: The Conquest of the Brazilian Indians
Barbara Weinstein - New York University
Leopoldo Bernucci - University of California, Davis
- 2:00 p.m. (ET) 4:00 p.m. (BSB)
New Epistemologies: The Political and Ethnic Mobilization of Amazonian Indigenous Populations
Moderator: Diego Mejia - Florida State University
Enrique Leff - National Autonomous University of Mexico
Pedro Raposo - The Amazonas State University (UEA)
- 4:00 p.m. (ET) 6:00 p.m. (BSB)
Culture, Memory, and Traditional Knowledge
Moderator: Marcos Colón - Florida State University
Airton Krenak - Krenak People
Erik Jennings - Doctor Responsible for the Zoé People
Angela Mendes - Alliance of Forest Peoples
November 19, 2020
A Call to Action: Resistances
- 3:00 p.m. (ET) 5:00 p.m. (BSB)
Resistance Beyond the Conquest: Isolated Populations in South America
Moderator: Felipe Milanez – Federal University of Bahia (UFBA)
Antenor Vaz – Sertanista (Indigenous Protection Agent)
Ângela Kaxuyana – Indigenous Organizations of the Brazilian Amazon (COAIB)
- 5:00 p.m. (ET) 7:00 p.m. (BSB)
Legal Strategies of Resistance
Moderator: Adriana Ramos - The Instituto Socioambiental (ISA)
Kretã Kaingang - APIB (Brazil’s Indigenous People Articulation)
Camões Boaventura - Brazilian Federal Prosecutor