Selecting Wider for Ecology and Humanity
FEL recognizes the need for a more integrated approach to solving the complex challenges facing our world.
Drawing from diverse fields such as ecology, complexity science, cultural studies, and design, FEL was established to bridge the gap between theory and practice, ensuring that our research and ideas lead to tangible, impactful outcomes.
FEATURED EVENT
Exploring the Indigenous Symbiocene with Professor Brian Burkhart
About the event
- Date: Thursday 21 Nov 2024, 15:00 – 17:00
- Type: Lecture
- Spoken Language: English
- Room: M1-04
- Building: Van der Goot Building
Join us for a collaborative presentation featuring Professor Brian Burkhart, Pathways to Sustainability Fellow at Utrecht University, as we explore themes from his latest book, “Indigenizing Philosophy through the Land: A Trickster’s Methodology for Decolonizing Environmental Ethics and Indigenous Futures.” This thought-provoking session will delve into the intersection of Indigenous philosophy, land-based ethics, and future sustainability.
Exploring the Indigenous Symbiocene presents the notion of political power through a shared, relational ontology of voice grounded in locality. With the land we walk on and live with is part of the story we show up with when we claim, contest, and cooperate. This approach discusses how indigenous philosophies of sustainability are tethered to particular places and commitments to and with those places, and asks us how an Indigenous trickster method of hermeneutic justice and a resurgence method of Indigenous land-based practices can anchor our kinship with the more-than-human world for thriving — our own and the world’s. By locating disassociation from land as part of our ontological, ethical, and epistemological fracture, Burkhart will share practices of indigenous well-being through the land wrought from indigenous philosophy that simultaneously enlarges our sense of self through ecological commitments and decenters agency from individualistic yet burdened identities resulting from placelessness.
The discussion will be led by Drs. Carolina Sánchez de Jaegher (Utrecht), Yogi Hendlin, Rosalba Icaza (ISS), and is organized by the Feral Ecologies Lab, Erasmus School of Philosophy, and the Dynamics of Inclusive Prosperity Initiative.
Programme
15:00 – 16:00 Talk by Professor Brian Burkhart
16:00 – 16:25 Discussants
16:25 – 17:00 Open discussion with audience
17:00 – 18:00 Borrel at the Paviljoen
We hope to see you there!
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