20220804 SSFS9 - Every I is a We: the Intellectual Legacy of Gustavo Esteva

THE COLLAPSE OF MODERN CIVILIZATION AND THE FUTURE OF HUMANITY
现代文明崩解与人类未来 (July 8 - August 12, 2022)

Organizers:
CCRD-CS, Lingnan University, China
Global University for Sustainability
CBCGD

4 August (Thursday) HK 21:00 - 24:00 (GMT 13:00 - 16:00)
Every I is a We: the Intellectual Legacy of Gustavo Esteva

Moderators:
SIT Tsui Jade Margaret (Southwest University, China)
Jose Rafael ESCOBEDO (Brandeis University, Mexico)

Speakers:
Wendy JUÁREZ (Unitierra Oaxaca, Mexico)
LAU Kin Chi (Lingnan University, China)
David BARKIN (Metropolitan Autonomous University, Mexico)
Elias GONZALEZ (Jesuit University of Guadalajara, Mexico)
Biography
Sit Tsui (Jade Margaret) is an associate professor at the Rural Revitalization Strategy Research Institute, Southwest University, China. She is a board member of the Asian Regional Exchange for New Alternatives (Hong Kong, China), and a founding member of Global University for Sustainability. She has been actively involved in the rural reconstruction movement in China for over two decades.

Rafael Escobedo does research at the intersection of organizational theory, agrarian, and non-state societies, with a special interest in the role of peasant farmers and seasonal farmworkers in subaltern politics. He holds an M.A. in Sustainable International Development from the Heller School. Specifically, Rafael studies how peasant farmers and farmworkers are affected and in turn purposefully influence complex systems through autonomous learning and resistance networks. Rafael is currently working as a researcher and collaborator of autonomous organizations and communities and is the head editor of Gustavo Esteva's intellectual legacy.

Wendy Juárez is a Zapotec woman, audiovisual creator, radio broadcaster, and photography enthusiast. She is part of the Red Futuros Indigenas. She collaborates in the Universidad de la Tierra taking up the critique of development and cybernetic mentality, as well as from the reflection and action in life alternatives to heal, learn and regenerate our communities. University teacher of topics related to communication theories.

Lau Kin Chi is coordinator of the Programme on Cultures of Sustainability, Centre for Cultural Research and Development of Lingnan University in Hong Kong. She has taught at Lingnan University for 35 years. She is also a founding member of the Global University for Sustainability and director of its Executive Team. She has been involved in the rural reconstruction movement in China for over two decades, and she is also a board member of PeaceWomen across the Globe.

David Barkin is Distinguished Professor at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Xochimilco Campus in Mexico City. He collaborated in the founding of the Ecodevelopment Center in 1974. He received the National Prize for Political Economy in 1979. He is a member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences and is an Emeritus member of the National Research Council. He is recognized for his theory of Radical Ecological Economics, developed during the past 15 years. In 2016, he received an award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (Germany). His latest books are: 'From Protest to Proposal: 50 years imagining and building the future’ (Siglo XXI, 2018) and 'The Environmental Tragedy in Latin America and the Caribbean' (ECLAC, 2020, with 20 Latin American colleagues).

Elias Gonzalez is a philosopher and writer. He focuses on interreligious dialogue and the bridge between mysticism and the struggles to build a new world. He has collaborated with different interreligious groups and indigenous and spiritual communities. He is currently an adjunct professor at ITESO and Ibero León. He collaborates with the Universidad de la Tierra Oaxaca and is a member of the Center for Studies of Religion and Society of the University of Guadalajara. He is a spiritual companion, a Zen practitioner, and a creator of study and dialogue groups around mysticism. Coordinates the blog, Dawn. Author of the following books: Encounter, Religation, and Dialogue. Reflections towards an Inter-Religious dialogue, Impotent Tenderness, Discovering yourself in the Small, and Conviviality and political resistance from below: The legacy of Iván Illich in Mexico.
This video is produced by the Global University for Sustainability, 2022.

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