External conferences

2021 Conferences

Seminario Permanente Jesús G. Amuchastegui con Ramiro Ávila: La utopía del oprimido. Los derechos de la Pachamama (Naturaleza) y el Sumak Kawsay (buen vivir) en el pensamiento crítico, el derecho y la literatura 

El jueves 28 de enero de 2021 Ramiro Ávila Santamaría, profesor de Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar y juez de la Corte Constitucional de Ecuador, participó en el Seminario Permanente Jesús G. Amuchastegui para debatir su libro: La utopía del oprimido. Los derechos de la Pachamama (Naturaleza) y el Sumak Kawsay (buen vivir) en el pensamiento crítico, el derecho y la literatura (2019, Akal).

En la sesión participaron como comentaristas:

Modero: Prof. José María Sauca

 

2020 Conferences

GENEVA FORUM

9th Annual International Conference on Rights of Nature for Peace and Sustainable Development

08 December 2020


RIVERS Principal Investigator, Lieselotte Viaene, and Digno Montalván, RIVERS associate pre doctoral researcher, took part on the 9th Annual International Conference on Rights of Nature for Peace and Sustainable Development in the frame of the Geneva Forum. Lieselotte Viaene presented an overview of the objectives and expected results of RIVERS and Digno Montalván focused on “Anthropocentrism and ecocentrism in the jurisprudence of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights”.

Info Geneva Forum

ONLINE SEMINAR

Human Rights and the more-than-human: legal anthropological dialogues

19 November 2020


RIVERS Principal Investigator, Lieselotte Viaene, gave the online seminar “Human rights and the more-than-human: legal anthropological dialogues” at Queen’s University Belfast School of Law, Human Rights Centre.

Info Queen’s University Belfast

2019 conferences

The Anthropocene and the Law in Asia

The ALSA Presidential session “The Anthropocene and the Law in Asia”

Annual Asian Law and Society Association (ALSA) “Expanding Asia: Changing Law and Social Justice”

12-15 December 2019
Osaka, Japan

Lieselotte Viaene “Can Rights of Nature save us from the Anthropocene catastrophe? Critical reflections on the emerging ecological jurisprudence.

Chair: Hiroshi Fukurai, University of California, Santa Cruz.

Other panel members: James Prest, Australian National University; Craig Martin, Washburn University School of Law; Peter Rush, Melbourne Law School and Isabelle Giraudou, The University of Tokyo

Info ALSA & programme book 2019 conference

European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) AGM “Europe, knowledge politics and bureaucracy: anthropological perspectives”

28-29 October
Brussels, Belguim

Workshop “The EUropean Law, Bureaucracy and Governance of Anthropology”

Lieselotte Viaene “European Research Ethics Standards vs decolonial participatory anthropological research?”

Chair: Mariya Ivancheva (University of Liverpool) Discussants: Cris Shore

(Goldsmiths, University of London) and Joël Le Déroff (Project Adviser Ethics, ERC

Executive Agency). Other panel members: Cassandra Yuill (City, University of London) and Rita Astuti & Alice Tilche (London School of Economics)

More info EASA & programme AGM 2019

Deep Dive: Onto-seeding Societal Transformation

Hosting InstitutionsInstitute for Advanced Sustainability Studies and Commons Strategies Group

9-12 September 2019
Neudenau, Germany

Hosting team: Zack Walsh, Thomas Bruhn (IASS); Silke Helfrich, David Bollier (CSG);

Brooke Lavelle, Courage of Care Coalition

Lieselotte Viaene participated in this Deep Dive, together with some twenty people from different academic disciplines and geographic regions to discuss and form a common understanding and community around the importance of relational ontologies to societal transformation.

Agenda Deep Dive 2019

Pictures by Jacques Paysan: Flickr

Bergen Exchanges 2019

19-23 August 2019
Bergen, Norway

Can we develop new ways of thinking about water beyond the modern divides of nature/culture, and reconceptualising human rights? The coordinator of RIVERS Lieselotte Viaene and post doctoral researcher Marta Rica Izquierdo  presented the project during this year Bergen Exchanges on Law and Social Transformation. The main themes for Bergen Exchanges 2019 were Natural Resources, Corruption, Indigenous Rights and Law and Technology.

 To learn more about RIVERS project, you can watch the 20 minute talk of Lieselotte Viaene, RIVERS coordinator, sharing RIVERS research design with an introduction by Rachel Sieder (CIESAS-CMI) and followed by reflections by Marta Rica (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid) Angela Ocampo (University of Louvain); and Camila Gianella (CMI) and a Q&A with the distinguished public of Bergen Exchanges 2019   (22 August 2019).