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IGDS Indigenous Geographies and Caribbean Feminisms three-day Symposium and Keynote Address

Event Date(s): 30/03/2017 - 01/04/2017

Location: See Below


The Institute of Gender and Development Studies (IGDS) in collaboration with the Department of Geography present the Indigenous Geographies and Caribbean Feminisms three-day Symposium.

The symposium takes place from March 30 to April 1 at the Faculty of Social Sciences (FSS) Lounge as follows:

March 30 | 9am to 4.30pm | Schedule: Opening Ceremony, Invocations, Introductions | Break | Panel 1: Activism Against Capitalism and the State | Lunch | Panel 2: Recognition, Representation, and Transformation | Break | Panel 3: Women’s Organizing, Advocacy, and Empowerment

March 31:

  • 9am to 4.30pm | Panel 4: Indigeneity and Movement Building | Break | Panel 5: Culture, Heritage, and Tradition | Lunch | Panel 6: Land, Community, and Environmental Protection
  • 6 to 8pm | Keynote address by Christina Coc, Maya Land Rights Activist and Community Organizer at the Noor Hassanali Auditorium, Faculty of Law.  For more information, please click here.

Saturday, April 1 | 9am to 4.30pm | Panel 7: Dispossession, Trauma, and Healing | Break | Panel 8: Colonialism, History, and the Contemporary | Lunch

 

Open to: | General Public | Staff | Student | Alumni |


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