2023 Conferences
Law and Society Annual Meeting
“The not so ‘harmonious’ relationship between the right to territory of indigenous peoples and the rights of Nature: a critical approach to the ecocentric literature” presented at the round table “Law and More-than-human Societies”
Date: 1-4th June, 2023 – San Juan (Puerto Rico)
Organizers: Law and Society – Annual meeting
Participant: Digno Montalván (RIVERS/UC3M)
“From Critique to Political Practice” workshop
RIVERS participated at the round table “Critique, Political Practice, Anthropology”
Date: 12th May, 2023 – Sussex University, Brighton (UK)
Organizers: EASA LAWNET workshop in collaboration with Allegra Lab
Participant: Lieselotte Viaene (IP RIVERS/UC3M)
2022 Conferences
Workshop Protection of the Environment in Times of Armed Conflict: Assessing implications of the International Law Comission’s Draft Principles and related issues
“Nature and Indigenous Peoples in Conflict and Post-conflict Scenarios”
Date: November 18, 2022 – Madrid, UC3M (Getafe)
Organizers: ICEL/UC3M
Participant: Lieselotte Viaene (IP RIVERS/UC3M)
Summer school “Extractivism and its discontents: cultural and artistic counter-movements”
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, Kassel (Germany)
Organizers: The University of Kassel, in cooperation with Más Arte Más Acción (MAMA), documenta Institut and CELA
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
RIVERS participated in the “Socio-environmental Polarization and Great Power Rivalry” Conference
Date: May 05-08, 2022
LASA 2022 Panel: 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)
This panel aims to advance in a critical and interdisciplinary analysis of the interconnection of the different scenarios of conflict – national and local – generated by the control of water in Guatemala.
LASA 2022 – Roundtable discussion: Security, development and territory: critical reflections on State violence – Racial Capital (Spanish, online)
Organizers: Principal Investigators Lieselotte Viaene of RIVERS-ERC and Silvia RodrÍguez Maeso – POLITICS-ERC.
This Roundtable proposes to discuss how racial hierarchies have shaped the dominant understandings of security and development for the control of territories and what is constituted as “human” and “natural” resources in urban and rural spaces. We propose to think about the connections and affinities that occur in the fields of law, the justice system and public policies in the fields of intervention of “citizen security” and “extractivist economy”, crucial to understand the reproduction of the genocidal vocation of the racial State-Capital.
Virtual Conference LASA/Asia 2022
Water Ontologies and Hydro-Extractivisms: Decolonizing Rivers in Central America and the Himalayan Region
Date: 17th February 2022
Starting at 08h00 – 09h30
Organized by: LASA/EANLAS: Rethinking Trans-Pacific Ties: Asia and Latin America
Participant: Lieselotte Viaene
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
Starting at 15h00 – 16h30 (CEST)
Organized by: Max Planck Fellow Group Environmental Rights in Cultural Context – ERCC
Participant: Digno Montalván
Poster: https://derechoyjusticia.net/sites/default/files/contenido/noticias/ERCC_Talk_3_February.pdf
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:
- Prof. Joxerramon Bengoetxea.
- Profª. Isabel Wences.
- Profª Lieselotte Viaene.
- Prof. Digno Montalván.
Modero: Prof. José María Sauca.
2020 Conferences
GENEVA FORUM
9th Annual International Conference on Rights of Nature for Peace and Sustainable Development
Date: 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
Date: 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.
2019 conferences
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”
Date: 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
European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) AGM “Europe, knowledge politics and bureaucracy: anthropological perspectives”
Date: 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 Institutions: Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies and Commons Strategies Group
Date: 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.
Pictures by Jacques Paysan: Flickr
Bergen Exchanges 2019
Date: 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).
