This two day conference programmed by Halton Mill in partnership with Lancaster University Environment Centre and Lancaster City Council features cutting edge research on the Amazon, together with contributions from journalists, environmental campaigning organisations, and activists.
Booking link www.trybooking.co.uk/BVBE also www.tinyurl.com/DomBrunoConference
The conference will be live at The Storey in Lancaster city centre and also accessible by Zoom. There will be Portuguese/English interpreting for most sessions.
There will be significant time built into the programme for participants to meet informally with the speakers and with each other (both in the symposium venue and in breakout rooms on Zoom), to share thoughts, feelings and reactions to what they’ve heard and to plan next steps - and to find out about campaigning organisations working in the area.
Booking link www.trybooking.co.uk/BVBE also www.tinyurl.com/AmazonConference
The programme is here, speaker bios below
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PROGRAMME
UK time, with Brasilia/Manaus time in brackets
Saturday 19th November
(Arrivals/coffee & see the exhibition, from 1230).
1.00 p.m. (10.00/9.00 am) Opening presentation Dr Juliana M. Silveira
The importance of the Amazon to the people who live there and to the world: & how forest conservation has been destroyed by Bolsonaro's government.
Juliana was in contact with Dom Phillips just prior to his last trip, and will set the context for the two days.
1.35 p.m. (1035/935) Intro to Panel sessions: chair, Dr Luciana Mendes Barbosa,
During the afternoon there'll be plenty of time to discuss what you’ve heard with your neighbour, in the room and on zoom breakout rooms, plus open discussion
2.45 p.m. Break/discussion/meet your neighbour
3.15 p.m. (1215/1115) Dr Mariana Fonseca Braga: “Community resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond”.
4.15 p.m. (1315/1215) meet your neighbour, & discussion
4.45 p.m. Summing up and intro to Sunday's programme Fiona Frank and Luciana Mendes Barbosa.
5.00 - 5.30 p.m. A chance to look round the exhibition and reflect on the day.
5.30 p.m. Close
Sunday 20th November – Focus on activism and reporting on the Amazon
1030 a.m. (730/630 am) Introduction and welcomes: Kevin Frea, Deputy Leader, Lancaster City Council.
Chair, Fiona Frank
10.40 a.m. to 1 p.m. (740/640 - 10/9 am) (with coffee break): inputs from campaigning organisations Cool Earth, Survival International and Greenpeace.
2 p.m. (11/10 am) Keynote speech: Dr Nelly Marubo. “A importância da preservação da floresta na perspectiva do povo Marubo" - “the importance of preserving the forest: the perspective of the Marubo people”.
Will include discussion time.
3.00 p.m. (1215/1115) Break
3.30 p.m. (1230/130) Round table on 'Reporting on the Amazon after Dom & Bruno's deaths’
With Tom Phillips, Latin America correspondent, The Guardian
Jonathan Watts, Environment Jonathan Watts, Global Environment Editor, The Guardian and founder of Sumaúma, a new environmental platform that aims to place the rainforest at the centre of global reporting
Award winning journalist Katia Brasil, co-founder and executive editor of the independent and investigative journalism agency Amazônia Real,
Chair: Alison Cahn.
4.30 p.m. (130/230) Summing up, appreciations and next steps.
5 p.m. (2/3 pm). close
**Exhibition
On display during the event will be some of Gina Frausin’s beautiful photographs of the Amazon, alongside a copy of the 14-panel hard-hitting For Dom Bruno and the Amazon exhibition that is on display in Halton Mill throughout November. This is a specially curated exhibition dedicated to Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira; honouring them and others who have lost their lives in the struggle for Amazonia, showing aspects of the current destruction but also some hopeful solutions, and some ‘next steps’ and actions that we can all take.
Photographer: Gina Frausin – biologist and ethnobotanist who works in the Colombian and Brazilian Amazon with traditional communities exploring traditional knowledge and cultural connections with the environment.
SPEAKER BIOS
Keynote speaker Dr Nelly Marubo (joining us by Zoom from Manaus).
Nelly is an Indigenous Marubo activist and intellectual from the Javari region on the border between Peru and Brazil, the region where Dom and Bruno were working when they were murdered. She worked with Bruno in FUNAI, Brazil's National Indian Foundation, and has recently started working for FIOCRUZ , The Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, which aims to promote health and social development, generate and disseminate scientific and technological knowledge. She graduated in Social Anthropology at the Federal University of Amazonas - UFAM, and did her masters and doctorate at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro UFRJ /Museu Nacional –MN.
Other contributors:
From the Lancaster Environment Centre: Dr Juliana M. Silveira, Dr Leonardo De Sousa Miranda, Dr James Fraser, Dr Mariana Fonseca Braga, Dr Luciana Mendes Barbosa.
Dr Juliana Silveira is an ecologist, currently based at Lancaster University Environment Centre where she is a research assistant . She did her undergraduate, Masters and PhD studies in a university in the Amazon, where she was born, and since then has been studying the effects of disturbances like logging and fire on the biodiversity of the Brazilian Amazon. Juliana is also engaged in giving talks in primary schools in Lancaster about the importance of Tropical Rainforests (especially the Amazon) to the world
Dr Luciana Mendes Barbosa is a human geographer whose research specialises in the politics of resilience, environmental politics, socio-environmental conflicts in the global South.
Dr Leonardo De Sousa Miranda is an environmental data scientist assessing the effects of climate change and conservation strategies on Amazonian biodiversity and ecosystem services.
Dr Mariana Fonseca Braga is a hybrid designer and design researcher in Imagination Lancaster at Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts (LICA) – She investigates community resilience in areas of public health. Her research aims at contributing to shaping equitable societies.
Dr James Fraser is Senior Lecturer at Lancaster Environment Centre, and takes a critical approach to questions of sustainable farming, social justice and biodiversity conservation in the majority world, with a particular focus in Brazilian Amazonia.
Plus Lancaster based Colombian activists and campaigners, Gina Frausin and Victoria Frausin. Victoria Frausin is a textile activist, community artist and coordinator of Sewing Café Lancaster.
Round table on 'Reporting on the Amazon after Dom & Bruno's deaths, with Jonathan Watts, Global Environment Editor, The Guardian and founder of Sumaúma, a new environmental platform that aims to place the rainforest at the center of global reporting; Tom Phillips, Latin America correspondent, The Guardian.
Katia Brasil: award winning journalist Kátia Brasil is co-founder and executive editor of the independent and investigative journalism agency Amazônia Real,
Input from Dr Hannah Peck from Cool Earth, Sarah Shenker from Survival International and Annette Marti from Greenpeace.
Dr Hannah Peck: With expertise in ecology, conservation, and rural community development, Hannah leads on policy and research at Cool Earth, alongside her role as Deputy Director. Over the eight years working for Cool Earth, Hannah has witnessed many of the changes and challenges occurring for the Ashaninka and Awajun communities that Cool Earth partners with in Peru. Hannah has a Ph.D. focused in Ecology-Zoology from Imperial College London.
Annette Marti was born in Switzerland and emigrated to the UK nearly 30 years ago, where she has taught languages and now works as an illustrator. She joined the Greenpeace Speaker team in 2019 after attending a climate rally, because she realised that we need to reach out to as many people as possible to help tackle our environmental problems. She believes passionately in individual people power, and that we each have a choice and a say in the future of our planet.
Sarah Shenker is a British campaigner for Uncontacted Tribes with Survival International. Her work has spanned the world, from the Amazon to South East Asia. She has a passion for human rights and protecting indigenous lands.
Alison Cahn is Honorary Researcher at Lancaster Environment Centre and founding director and Operations Manager of Halton Mill – BAFTA winning journalist, film maker and communications director.