24 May 2024 13:00 - 14:30 GMT
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The second workshop of the Ways of Repair : Loss and Damage Public Program will explore how the climate crisis is causing loss and damage to culture, identity, sense of place, heritage, ways of knowing and being, and the importance of bringing pluralistic ways of knowing to the Loss and Damage discourse. Through a dialogue between the Executive Director of the International Indian Treaty Council, Andrea Carmen, and sociocultural anthropologist Robert Albro who is Associate Director of Research at the American University’s Center for Latin American and Latino Studies, (with other speakers yet to be confirmed), the workshop seeks to explore the challenges of understanding how the climate crisis is causing loss and damage to tangible, intangible —and often incommensurable things— such as culture, identity, sense of place and identity.
The session will also explore the importance of bringing pluralistic ways of knowing to Loss and Damage policy making and solutions, including Indigenous Knowledge of loss and damage and Indigenous methods to address it, as well as the role of artists within this work.
Highlighting the challenges that front line communities and Indigenous Peoples face when working to ensure the inclusion of traditional knowledge, Indigenous Knowledge and Science, and the rights Indigenous Peoples within climate policy making and initiatives, the workshops' speakers will also share thoughts on what must happen to ensure meaningful change.
Andrea Carmen, Yaqui Nation, became a staff member of the International Indian Treaty Council in 1983 and its Executive Director in 1992. Andrea was IITC’s team leader for work on the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and in 1997 was one of two Indigenous representatives to address the UN General Assembly for the first time at the UN Earth Summit +5. In 2006, Andrea was selected as Rapporteur for the UN Expert Seminar on Indigenous Peoples’ Permanent Sovereignty over Natural Resources and their Relationship to Land, the first Indigenous woman to serve as Rapporteur for a UN Expert Seminar. She has been an invited expert at UN sessions addressing a wide range of issues and in 2019 was selected to represent North America Indigenous Peoples on the Facilitative Working Group for the UNFCCC Local Communities and Indigenous Peoples Platform. She served as its 2nd co-chair until May 2021.
Dr. Robert Albro is currently Associate Director of Research and Research Associate Professor at American University’s Center for Latin American and Latino Studies (CLALS). He received his PhD in sociocultural anthropology from the University of Chicago. His ethnography Roosters at Midnight: Indigenous Signs and Stigma in Local Bolivian Politics (School of Advanced Research Press, 2010) explores urban indigeneity in Bolivia. More recently his research and writing have focused on intersections of international cultural policy with climate change and displacement. Dr. Albro has edited two volumes on the socio-cultural impacts of climate change. His work has been supported by the National Science Foundation, Mellon, Rockefeller, and Luce foundations, and American Council on Learned Societies, among others. He has also been a Fulbright scholar, and held fellowships at the Carnegie Council, Kluge Center of the Library of Congress, and Smithsonian Institution.Additional information about Dr. Albro’s work can be found here. Email: albro@american.edu.
Ways of Repair : Loss and Damage is an online artistic research residency, a series of public events, and a set of commissioned texts, aimed at facilitating a transdisciplinary exchange around the issue of loss and damage caused by the climate crisis.
The Ways of Repair : Loss and Damage program is part of the Loss and Damage Collaboration’s Art and Culture program and is supported by the Open Society Foundations.
