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
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.
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”
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”
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
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
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).
