“RIVERS, INDIGENOUS PEOPLES AND NON-HUMAN RIGHTS: A SOUTH-SOUTH DIALOGUE” – Guess lecture
Date: 4th December, 2022 – Surkhet (Nepal)
Organizers: Mid-Western University – Central Department of International Relations and Diplomacy, Conflict and Peace Studies in Collaboration with all Graduated Schools of MU
Participant: Lieselotte Viaene (IP RIVERS/UC3M)
“Defending indigenous water and land ontologies through indigenous legal action by indigenous lawyers in Nepal” – International Workshop Cultural Expertise and Litigation: practices in South Asia and Europe
Date: 2th December, 2022 – Sonipat and online (India)
Organizers: O.P. Jindal Global University
Participant: Lieselotte Viaene (IP RIVERS/UC3M)
“Nature and Indigenous Peoples in Conflict and Post-conflict Scenarios” – Workshop Protection of the Environment in Times of Armed Conflict: Assessing implications of the International Law Comission’s Draft Principles and related issues
Date: November 18, 2022 – Madrid, UC3M (Getafe)
Organizers: ICEL/UC3M
Participant: Lieselotte Viaene (IP RIVERS/UC3M)
Symposium Indigenous Peoples, Water and Human Rights: Dialoguing Encounters
Date: 4th October, 2022 – Casa de América, Madrid (Spain)
Organizers: Ana Paula García Nieto (RIVERS/UC3M), Manuel May (Independent Researcher), Lieselotte Viaene (IP RIVERS/UC3M)
Participants: Karla Medrano (Social Sciences & Humanities Open – Elsevier), Pedro Arrojo-Agudo (United Nations), Juan Castro (Indigenous Guatemalan lawyer, Legal Coordinator of the Firm for Indigenous People), Binota Dhamai (Chair of the UN Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous People for 2022-2023), Minket Lepcha (documentary filmmaker and defender of the rivers of India, winner of the Young Green Filmmaker 2016 at the Woodpecker International Film Festival for his film Voices of Teesta), Laura Oroz (AECID)
Panel discussion moderator: Manuel May (Independent Researcher)
Master of ceremonies: Digno Montalván (RIVERS/UC3M)
Let’ s talk about water – The European Researchers’ Night 2022
Date: 30 September, 2022 – Campus Puerta de Toledo UC3M, Madrid (Spain)
Organizers: University Carlos III (UC3M)
Participants: Ana Paula García Nieto (RIVERS/UC3M), Lieselotte Viaene (IP RIVERS/UC3M)
Session 2: “Forest, water and river: rights of nature” – Chocó y el río Atrato,
Colombia
Session 3: “Ecosistems: art and activism” – Public forum
Date: September 7-18, 2022
RIVERS participates in the summer school “Extractivism and its discontents: cultural and artistic counter-movements”
The summer school offers an international and interdisciplinary exchange on resource-extracting societies and the interconnectedness between the global South and Europe.
Participant: María Ximena González Serrano (RIVERS/UC3M)
Latin American Studies Association (LASA) Conference “Socio-environmental Polarization and Great Power Rivalry”
Date: May 5-8, 2022
RIVERS participates in the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) Conference
Indigenous Peoples, State-Capital and Water Extractivism: a multilevel analysis of water disputes in Guatemala (Spanish, online).
Organizers: Santiago Bastos (CIESAS Mexico) and María Jacinta Xón (RIVERS/UC3M)
Water Ontologies and Hydro-Extractivisms: Decolonizing Rivers in Central America and the Himalayan Region
Date: 17th February 2022
Organized by: Lieselotte Viaene (IP RIVERS/UC3M)
Participants: Georgina Drew (University of Adelaide), Austin Lord (Cornell University), Diego A Padilla (Universidad Rafael Landívar), Lieselotte Viaene (IP RIVERS/UC3M), Mabel D Gergan (Vanderbilt University)
THE RIGHTS OF NATURE AND THE RIGHT
TO TERRITORY OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES:
From universal intrinsic value to epistemic and ontological plurality
Date: 3rd February 2022
Organized by: Max Planck Fellow Group Environmental Rights in Cultural Context (ERCC)
Participant: Digno Montalván (RIVERS/UC3M)