Activities: Fall 2013-Spring 2014

Friday September 20: Reading group on political economy, development, and regional geographic imaginaries: Gonzales Casanova, Coronil, and Price.

Friday November 15: Reina Elena Rodriguez, visiting scholar from the University of Zaragoza, will present her dissertation project on ecoaldeas in Colombia. Readings: Introduction to the book by Jacqui Alexander and Chandra Mohanty, Feminist Genealogies, Colonial Legacies, and Democratic Futures (1997)

Tuesday December 10: Conversation on the current moment of Zapatismo, led by Alvaro Reyes. Suggested readings: Raul Zibechi, El Arte de Construir Un Nuevo Mundo (http://www.cipamericas.org/es/archives/10446); Alvaro Reyes and Mara Kaufman “Zapatista Autonomy and The New Practices of Decolonization”; and Pablo Gonzalez Casanova,”Organizar una inmensa Red de colectivos en Defensa del territorio” (http://www.rebelion.org/noticia.php?id=161940)

Thursday Feb 6 and Friday February 7: Environmental justice and race scholar Laura Pulido will speak about engaged scholarship in geography and her research on landscapes of environmental racism.

Friday, April 11th: Roundtable on pedagogies, methodologies and praxis. We will initiate out discussion with three informal presentations by PhD students, who will share experiences and emerging projects in/with movements and organizations in Colombia and Brazil. The conversation will be enriched by the discussion of the text “Pedagogical Notes from the Decolonial Cracks” by Catherine Walsh.

Tuesday May 27-30: Workshop with Ecuadorian sociologist Kati Alvarez, on the current political context of the Yasuni National Park in Ecuador. Readings TBA.