The workshop will begin with a keynote on "Anti-Colonial Praxis: Intercultural Alliances and Indigenous Forest Knowledge" by Juliana Salles Machado of Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil.
Drawing on the Histories from the Margins Project - an intercultural, interdisciplinary, and multicentered initiative aimed at producing anti-colonial narratives of foresting - we seek to echo (cosmo)histories woven in dialogue with the perspectives of the peoples who inhabit the forest, recognizing the Forest, its socialities, and its beings as historical subjects. In doing so, we foreground how these histories shape both the collective memory of Indigenous peoples in the brazilian amazon and the very materiality and biodiversity of the Forest. The research unsettles the boundaries between academic knowledge and traditional knowledges, proposing collaborative and decentralized modes of inquiry that acknowledge the multiple agencies - human and more-than-human - involved in knowledge production. The territorialities of the forest and the university intersect to reflect on anti-colonial praxis as an ethical, epistemological, and methodological foundation for collaborative research for/with/about Indigenous peoples. Affective alliances among intercultural knowledges, and the commitment to collaboration among their agents, do not merely situate the questions under investigation; they radically transform how such questions are conceived, demanding an engaged mode of listening, a shared practice, and the recognition of the multiple voices and intelligences that constitute territories of knowing and being.
Juliana Salles Machado is an internationally recognized scholar of Indigenous studies, collaborative archaeology, ethnoarchaeology, and anti-colonial research practices. She is distinguished by her long-term, community-engaged research with Indigenous peoples in Brazil, which integrates archaeology, ethnography, history, and historical ecology. Machado has played a leading role in advancing Indigenous-centered methodologies in research, teaching, and public engagement, particularly through intercultural higher education and collaborative knowledge production.
To attend, please prepare the readings (to be found in the program (PDF)).
VENUE:
Conference Room 0.018
Niebuhrstraße 5
D-53113 Bonn