The Concordia Ethnography Lab invites you to their next event in their workshop series on ethnography at its innovative margins. Kristina Lyons from the University of Pennsylvania will be giving a talk entitled: Rivers and Reconciliation: Elaborating the Sociological Memory of War Through Science and Arts-based practices on January 27th at 1:00 pm. 

During this workshop, Dr. Lyons will present an ethnographic and participatory action research project to reconstruct the “socioecological memory” of the Mandur River watershed in the Colombian Amazon. The objective of this project was to create conditions for community dialogues over the territorial ordering, recovery, and conservation of the watershed in the midst of ongoing socio-environmental conflicts. Dr. Lyons will discuss the proposal to engage in what grassroots organizations call “profound reconciliation” along with the ethical stakes of reconciliatory processes that tend to human and more-than-human relations damaged by the interconnected dynamics of structural violence and decades of war. She will also share the environmental humanities-based methodologies that emerged in our collective process to elaborate the memory of the Mandur, as well as facilitate a cosmopolitical exercise to highlight the importance of fostering spaces for bettering (rather than transcending) conflict. We will also converse about the challenges posed for public engaged scholarship during times of transition that may shift toward the perpetuation of violence, injustice, and militarized forms of conservation.

Further information and event details can be found here:  https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/workshop-with-dr-kristina-lyons/ 

Please email m_amoth@live.concordia.ca to register for the event or for any questions. 

Date : 27 janvier – 13h00 

Lieu : Concordia Ethnography Lab