The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

What We’ve Done

Archives of Relationality at UNC:

 

  • 2020
    • March 25: Make Ourselves Anew: Transforming the Story of Self through Black Feminist Poetry and Biology”, with Alexis Pauline Gumbs & Kriti Sharma.
    • March 25-27: Towards Relationality: Facing the Planetary Crisis with New Tools and Insights
  • 2019
    • May 3-4: Annual Symposium for the Theory and Politics of Relationality: Designing for Autonomia and For Healing the Web of Life
  • 2017
    • May 10: Social Change in Times of Trump: Theorizing the Possibilities. A Salon-style discussion
    • April 1: Decolonial feminisms and contemporary social movements: A workshop sponsored by the Latin American Intersectionalities Working Group and the Carolina Seminar on the Theory and Politics of Relationality  With Xochitl Leyva and Irmalicia Velásquez Nimatuj, Feminist scholars from Mexico and Guatemala.
  • 2015
    • May 7: Workshop on “Transitions towards Alternatives to Development: Post-extractivism beyond Capitalism and Socialism” with Eduardo Gudynas
    • May 5: Buen Vivir and Nature’s Rights: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly with Eduardo Gudynas
    • May 1: Writing and Thinking Relationality in the Academy:Radical interdependence in Spiritual Ecology and Indigenous Writing, A symposiumUNC Chapel Hill GEC 4003
    • March 20: Practicing Feminist Political Ecology: Beyond the Green Economy A Conversation with Wendy Harcourt, Institute for Social Studies, The Hague, and former editor of Development Friday, UNC Chapel Hill GEC 2008
    • February 5: Images and Nature: The artwork of Sandra Lopez. 2008-2010 Global Education Center (FedEx Building).
  • 2014
    • December 9: Final meeting of the fall semester on the theme of: “Writing Relationality”— part of the year’s larger focus on Relational Modes of Knowledge Production. Facilitated by Michal Osterweil and Arturo Escobar, based on 1) Gloria Anzaldua’s essay in This Bridge Called Home, entitled “now let us shift,… the path of conocimiento, inner works public acts”, and 2) Thomas Berry’s “The Dream of the Earth.”
    • October 8, 2014 FROM PRIOR CONSULTATION TO FREE, PRIOR AND INFORMED CONSENT:
      Indigenous rights practice and the extractive sector in Latin America
      Drawing from their work in Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru, members of the Extracting Justice Project, funded by the Norwegian Research Council, will explore the complexities of free, prior and informed consent focusing on cultural and political struggles of participation, conflicts concerning natural resource extraction, and economic development policies affecting indigenous,Afrodescendant, and peasant communities.
    • September 12 Design, Culture, Relationality & Adaptation: Thinking Cultures of Place & Cities in the Age of a Changing Climate Tony Fry Professor of Design, Griffith University, Brisbane. at UNC Chapel Hill Saunders Hall
    • September 11th. Marina Sitrin Rethinking Democracy and Representation: From Latin American Social Movements, to Occupy, to….  Fedex GEC, Rm 4003. with Liz Mason Deese and Michael Hardt, respondents.
    • September 10. 6pm: A Conversation on Occupy & Its Futures with Marina Sitrin and Dario Azzelini.  Peace & Justice Plaza
    • April 25-26: Academia and Social Change 2 Day Symposium, over 60 attendees.
    • April 7: Charles Eisenstein: Sacred Economics. (co-sponsored with community group, Pickard’s Mountain Eco Institute
    • March Beyond ‘development’: A Conversation with Gustavo Esteva on the Post-2015 development agenda and popular struggles
  • 2013
    • November: Claudia Horwitz, Transformational Organizing and Practicing Justice.
    • October:  Laura Ogden, Rhizomes and the Politics of Relationality,
    • Conversation with Rob Hopkins, founder Transition Towns Initiative. Friday, Noon-1:30pm, Student Union 3102.
    • Re/constituting Relational Communities: A Politics of Possibility, or Romanticism? Saturday April 27, 10-5pm, plus 6-10pm Fedex GEC, Room 1005. UNC Chapel Hill, special guests Kenneth Bailey Design Studio
    • February 11: The Politics of Relationality and an Awe-based Creativity. Jing Niu, film maker, currently pursuing her MFA in experimental and Documentary Arts at Duke University will lead the discussion.
  • 2012
    • November 12: Meeting facilitated by Michal Osterweil and Katie Akin: What is the relationship between notions of “the sacred”,  (other terms like spirituality might also fit) and relationality? Is it a necessary relationship?  Why? (or Why not?) Are there versions of relationality that are secular? What is at stake?
    • September 25: Report backs from the Rio + 20 meetings and a de-growth conference in Italy. With Herman Greene, and Arturo Escobar.