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SG - Postponing the End: Lessons from the Past
Is it the end of the world — or just the end of your world? Join Caroline F. Caromano as we explore how experiences of colonialism offer profound insights into our current environmental crisis, inspired by Ailton Krenak’s transformative ideas.
About Postponing the End: Lessons from the Past
Is it truly the end of the world, or just the end of your world? Join Caroline Fernandes Caromano as we delve into the experiences of South American populations who have faced the destruction of their worlds through colonialism and cultural erasure.
Drawing inspiration from Ailton Krenak's Ideas to Postpone the End of the World, we'll explore how Indigenous peoples, who have long endured the end of their worlds, offer valuable insights for our current environmental crisis.
To truly postpone the end, must we embrace a new way of “dreaming” that reconnects us with the natural world? Through the lens of archaeology and cosmology, this event seeks to challenge us to rethink our place on earth and seek paths to avert the looming abyss.
About series The Talk Show at the End of the World
What better way to start the academic year than with the end of the world! We live in times of turmoil; catastrophic climate change, the collapse of human civilisations, and the threat of nuclear annihilation are but a few omens of an apocalypse. But the end of the world is notoriously difficult to wrap your head around - until it happens of course. But then it’s already too late. Join The Talk Show at the End of the World and find (dis)comfort in the talks we’ll be having with a wide variety of guests.
About Caroline Fernandes Caromano
Caroline Fernandes Caromano is a Brazilian researcher who has been living in the Netherlands since 2018. She holds academic degrees in Social Sciences and Archaeology from the University of São Paulo and the National Museum of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). Caroline has been a research fellow at the Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology of the University of São Paulo, the Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi (Brazil), the Faculty of Archaeology at Leiden University, the Research Center for Material Culture, the Naturalis Biodiversity Center, and the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study (Netherlands). For the past 20 years, Caroline has conducted fieldwork and museum research in collaboration with indigenous peoples, focusing on topics such as traditional knowledge, heritage, and the relationship between peoples and plants in the Amazon.