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Speaker Series

STANDD hosts a speaker series that includes lectures from faculty members and students within the °Ä¿Í¾º²Ê community, and advanced scholars from international universities.

The speaker series events areÌýusually held on Fridays 12:30 — 2:30 pm in Peterson Hall 116, 3460 Rue McTavish or virtually via Zoom. Light lunches are usually provided.

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Present at our Speaker Series

If you wish to be a part of our speaker series, please contact us [standd.anthro [at] mcgill.ca] to schedule a date.

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Previous Events


Winter 2023

January 27th, Revitalizing Indigenous and Afro-Descendant Law(s) and Justice Systems in Colombia through Innovation, Alliances and Institutional Dialogue: Caring for nuestra casa grande, our collective big house

  • ÌýHéctor Jaime Vinasco (Resguardo Indígena de Orígen Colonial Cañamomo Lomaprieta)
  • Leidy Lorena Mina, (Palenke Alto Cauca - Proceso de Comunidades Negras)Ìý
  • Viviane Weitzner, (Adjunct Professor, Anthropology; Research Fellow, CICADA/L4E) ÌýÌý

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Fall 2022

December 5th,

  • Hernando Chindoy, legal representative of the AWAI Territorial Entity of the Inga Indigenous People, and co-leader of the Indigenous Biocultural University initiative in the Andean-Amazonian region of Colombia.
  • Ida Theilade, Professor in ethnobotany and forest governance at the University of Copenhagen.
  • Kathrin Wessendorf, IWGIA’s Executive Director (International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs).

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Winter 2022

April 8th,ÌýDr. Scott Simon, Professor, University of Ottawa. Title: Indigenous Nations in a Contested State: An Anthropology of Geopolitics on Formosa and in Taiwan.

April 22nd, J. Alonso Gamarra, PhD Candidate, °Ä¿Í¾º²Ê. Title: Learning To Live: Food, Belonging, and Imagining Change in Neoliberal Peru.

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Fall 2021

October 8th, Dr. Daniel Ruiz-Serna, Postdoctoral fellow, Department of Anthropology, University of British Columbia; Acts of Listening Lab, Concordia University. Title: Rot, Feral Animals and Dispossession: Images of the Afterlives of War in Colombia

October 29th, Dr. Erica Lagalisse, Research fellow, International Inequalities Ins