Ecocides in Latin America and Indigenous Resistance

Edson Krenak, Cultural Survival expert on Brazil and indigenous activist, writer, and doctoral student at the University of Vienna meets Austrian lawyer, cultural anthropologist, and retired university professor René Kuppe in a conversation moderated by Claudia Augustat. The conversation will focus on ecocides in Latin America, their consequences for the survival of indigenous groups, indigenous forms of resistance, and other key legal issues facing indigenous groups, such as land rights.

The discussion will be followed by a joint visit to the exhibition Extinct!?

The exhibition Extinctions!? is part of the project TAKING CARE. Ethnographic and World Cultures Museums as spaces of care. In this project, 13 partner museums explore the connections between ethnographic collections and questions about the climate crisis and the Anthropocene, and in this context address the aftermath of colonialism. In this way, the project positions ethnographic and world cultures museums as places that address these issues in a participatory and creative way.

The four-year project brings together fourteen partner organizations and is co-funded by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union.

In cooperation with Lateinamerika-Institut & Research Network Latin America

Duration: 90 min.
To participate in the event, all guests need a valid museum ticket (or an annual pass, a KHMembership or a Weltmuseum Wien Friends membership).
Registration online (limited number of participants)
Meeting Point: WMW Forum