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CICADA invites our community to join the Global Tapestry of Alternatives with this event on transformative pedagogies.
Date: Thursday, May 18. 2022
Time: 12.30 - 2pm (GMT)
Link to join:
globaltapestryofalternatives.org/webinars/live
globaltapestryofalternatives.org/webinars:2022:learning:02#session_details
CICADA congratulates all involved in a project spearheaded by co-investigator Prof. Daviken Studnicki-Gizbert (McGill, History), liaising students of McGill's Bieler School of Environment to work with our Atikamekw partner community, supporting their work of seeking to establish a protected area on their territory.
"Today, the Atikamekw are keen to secure tools, such as training for Indigenous cartographers and access to mapping software, to facilitate the stewardship of their ancestral land...The students' work on mapping out how the landscape has changed over time is a valuable asset for the Atikamekw families who have lived on the lands for generations. As Studnicki-Gizbert explains, combining university-based research and land-based knowledge (the generational knowledge passed on within the Atikamekw community) can be very powerful."
Field course combines university research with land-based knowledge
www.mcgill.ca
Adapting the delivery of field courses during a pandemic can be challenging. Daviken Studnicki-Gizbert, an Associate Professor in the Department of History and Classical Studies and Associate Member o...
Dear CICADA community members,
Please consider the following call for short papers on the topic of ecocide, to be published on the ecocidelaw.com website. Contributors will present and discuss papers at a symposium at UCLA in November 2022.
The deadline for short abstracts is 15 June 2022.
For nearly a decade, the Indigenous Xinka people, living near the Escobal silver mine in Guatemala (owned by Canadian mining company, Pan American Silver), have peacefully opposed the mine, defending their lands and waters from the destruction that they maintain is inevitable were the mine to proceed. Xinka community members have been killed and jailed as a result of their resistance. Pan American Silver is also seeking to build a mine in Argentina, claiming that the proposed mine site is on ‘no man’s land’, completely dismissing the presence of Mapuche Tehuelche Indigenous people that live on the land, and steamrolling their massive 20-year resistance movement against mining on their territory. This petition, expressing solidarity with the Indigenous Xinka and Mapuche Tehuelche peoples resisting unwanted extractive activities on their territories, will be delivered at Pan American's AGM next week.
Dear CICADA community,
We are thrilled to invite you all to the opening conversation of the "Pedagogies for the Ecozoic" series. In this virtual session, we'll learn about the making of an Indigenous Inga-led university initiative in the Colombian Amazon. With this pedagogical and territorial project, we invite our community of practice to engage in collective reflection on how education can contribute to socio-ecological and epistemic justice in times of big challenges.
Please take a look at the poster I've attached for more information.
Zoom registration required:
mcgill.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcsduirrD8tHdQsBKyPHRG0cPIynk2MXk00
Dear CICADA community members:
Please join us for next week’s Leadership for the Ecozoic Collab with the Department of Anthropology at McGill University. This is the second session of L4E's Book Launch series.
Day: Friday, April 29th
Time: 2:30 – 4 pm ET
Place: Zoom mcgill.zoom.us/j/83656280931