Rights of Nature – Scientific Seminar and Celebration of Mother Earth Day

Since 2015, students and teachers working on Latin American subjects celebrate Pachamama, “Mother Earth Day”, and the tree planted in the courtyard behind building 24 has grown. With the University of Copenhagen’s new focus on Environmental Humanities, this year we supplement the celebration with a scientific seminar to present and discuss the rich and only superficially known Latin American tradition of ecological ethics, culture, and imagination.

Programme

12: 00 Film: Mamá Irene: healer of the Andes

Søndre Campus (22-0-11, KUA1)

14:00 Traditional ceremony at the Tree with medicine woman Laura Ponce Gartmann

KUA1, courtyard between building 24 and 25 (entrance from Emil Holms Kanal 8)

16:00 Scientific Seminar
Short input papers by Stine Krøijer, Mattias Borg Rasmussen, Jesper Nielsen, Xaquín S. Pérez-Sindín, Julie Wetterslev, Jan Gustafsson (all KU); Marie Kolling (DIIS); Julia Krabbe Suárez (RUC); Diana González Martin and Georg Fischer (AU); Óscar García Augustín (AAU); Frida Hernández Peña (Birmingham City University) and Silvia Escobar (UMA Málaga)
17:15
Coffee Break
17:30
Round table with Selma de Montgomery and Carsten Jensen, moderated by Lasse Yde Hegnet
18:15
Debate with the audience

KUA3, Auditorium 4A-0-69 (Njalsgade 76, entrance from Ørestads Boulevard)

19:00
Reception

The seminar is in English – all are welcome!