Event Description
How do we bring previously disparate ways of knowing, Indigenous Knowledge and “Western” or mainstream science, into right relationship with one another for mutual thriving of land and culture? At a time of accelerating environmental change and complex, overlapping challenges, we need a plurality of perspectives to innovate solutions. This talk focuses on work being carried out by a team of international, interdisciplinary, predominantly Indigenous scientists from the US, Canada, Australia, and Aotearoa/New Zealand as part of the newly funded Center for Braiding Indigenous Knowledges and Science. It will share how a team which includes archaeologists, climate, environmental, and water scientists; and scholars with expertise in Indigenous knowledge systems, foodways, science ethics; Indigenous education; museums and heritage are collaborating to explore ethical practices and protocols of braiding knowledges, the seeds for building new research worlds. The talk highlights efforts to bring braiding methodologies into mainstream scientific practice through a transdisciplinary approach that reflects Indigenous understandings of place in which the urgent and interconnected areas of climate change, cultural places, and food sovereignty and security are the focus.
Event Speaker
Sonya Atalay, Provost Professor of Anthropology at the University of Massachusetts Amherst
Event Information
Free and open to the public; registration required. Registration closes at 1 PM on November 13. Contact [email protected] with any questions.
Part of the Co-Production of Knowledge Initiative at the Center for Science and Society.
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