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Upcoming Events

• March 21, 2023

  Dr. Amaya Alvez: Water, Ancestral Knowledge, and the Chilean Constitution

  In this talk, Chilean legal scholar Amaya Alvez, who served as an elected member of the 2021-22 Chilean Constitutional Convention, argues that Chile’s Constitutions have long enabled natural resource governance that perpetuates (neo)colonial dispossession and makes Indigenous peoples invisible.
• March 27, 2023

  Food and Justice amidst Multiple Crises

  This roundtable will feature Dr. Raj Patel and Dr. Erin Lentz of the LBJ School of Public Affairs, Dr. Alex Racelis of UTRGV, Carolina Mueller of the National Young Farmers Coalition, and Doris Brown and Ben Hirsch of West Street Recovery (Houston). Dr. Jason Cons, Associate Professor of Anthropology at UT Austin, will moderate.
• March 27, 2023

  If/When/How Lunch and Learn: The Crisis of Crisis Pregnancy Centers with Aziza Amed

  Lunch & Learn with BU Law Professor Aziza Ahmed who will discuss the current crisis of crisis pregnancy centers.
• April 3, 2023

  Social Security, Injury, and Agrarian Futures in Nicaragua’s Sugarcane Zone

  Dr. Alex Nading, professor of medical and environmental anthropology at Cornell University, will discuss heat, policy, and law in Nicaragua.

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