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Yasuní: raíces y horizontes: Una ruta para la reparación

Yasuní is one of the most diverse territories on the planet, both biologically and culturally. It is home to Indigenous peoples such as the Waorani and Kichwa, as well as peoples in voluntary isolation. This territory has become a symbol of the struggle for ethical energy transition in Ecuador. This event is the second in […]

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Exhibition – Forest Cities: The Amazon Between Ruins and Resilience

This photography exhibition examines the ruins of extractive cities in the Amazon from both human and more-than-human perspectives.   Photographs: Christian Braga Curatorship: Christian Braga, Danielle Heberle Viegas and Patrícia Vieira In partnership with the Resilient Forest Cities project and Campus Anthropocene Goethe Institute, Rio de Janeiro December 2024 More information about the event

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Cachoeira de Lauareté: Political and Legal Advocacy on Behalf of the Great Amazonian Anaconda

This presentation explains the author’s collaborative work carried out with anthropologists from the Federal University of Amazonas and members of the Tucano and Tariano communities, which took place in Cachoeira de Laureté of the Uaupés and Papuri rivers on the Colombian-Brazilian border. The author reflects on the struggles of Indigenous peoples to achieve legal protection […]

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A Path Towards Reparation: Yasuní and Civilizational Crisis

A dialogue about the Amazon and the Yasuní National Park in Ecuador in times of crisis, emphasizing the issues of environmental crisis and climate collapse, where different social problems such as inequality, racism, anthropocentrism and colonialism intersect and how this impacts Indigenous territories. The speakers reflect upon the confrontation of positions regarding what the Amazon […]

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Financialization of the Forest: Soy, Pesticides, and Viruses

The Lower Tapajós region, a multi-ethnic territory in western Pará, Brazilian Amazon, is home to 13 Indigenous peoples, numerous traditional riverside communities, and several quilombola communities. This area now faces profound ecological and social upheavals due to the rapid expansion of soy plantations and the infrastructure necessary for grain export. In this talk, I examine […]

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Roda Configurações de Mundo

Roundtable about different views of the world, with special emphasis on Indigenous cosmologies. Participants: Kaka Werá, Cebaldo Inawinapi, Verenilde Pereira, Juan Carlos Galeano, Francisco Soares, Carla Santos, Carola Saavedra, Patrícia Vieira Moderation: Marta Lança, Ellen Lima e Candela Varas  October 19, 11:00 am Tenda Vila Literária, Casa Floresta  In collaboration with FOLIO, Óbidos International Literary Festival

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Book Launch of Amazónia by Juan Carlos Galeano

The volume brings together previously published poems, as well as unpublished poetry and aphorisms, by the Amazonian poet Juan Carlos Galeano. Published for the first time in Portuguese, in a bilingual edition, this poetry offers a panorama of the Amazon rainforest and the ties that bind the region’s Indigenous and riverside communities with the more […]

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