Contesting Futures: Beyond the UN Summit for the Future · Event Summary
On September 19, the OLA held an event on “Contesting Futures: Beyond the UN Summit for the Future” as part of the 2084 Imagined Futures from the South program. The panelists invited for the event were Adam Brown, vice provost of research and professor of psychology...
PANEL · Contesting Futures: Beyond the UN Summit for the Future
Is the UN approach to the future ambitious enough? Does it represent the aspirations of the diversity of peoples around the world? Can it empower nations, communities, and cultures to identify their paths to fulfill their own expectations, desires, and capacities?...
Conference: Colonized Temporalities · Event Summary and video
On February 27, OLA held an in-person event as part of its program “2084: Imagined Futures from the South”. The keynote speaker was Carmen Ibañez Cueto, an interdisciplinary social scientist from Bolivia currently teaching at the Freie Universität in Berlin. The title...
Lecture: Colonized Temporalities, with Carmen Ibáñez Cueto
The Observatory on Latin America invites you to the lecture: COLONIZED TEMPORALITIES, by Bolivian Anthropologist and Researcher from the Freie Universität Berlin, Carmen Ibáñez Cueto. Lecture: Carmen Ibáñez Cueto – Anthropologist, Researcher, Freie Universität...
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