Agenda

TALANOA FORUM: Swimming Against the Tide - Day 3,  Venice 13 October 2022

Aula Baratto, Ca' Foscari, Dorsoduro 3246 (MAP)

The event will be livestreamed on NICHE's YouTube channel (LINK)

Participants in person, please fill in the registration form

Program

10.00 – 11.10am

• Turning the Tide: Indigenous water beings and multi-species democracy - Lead Speaker: Veronica Strang (Durham University) Chair: David Gentilcore (NICHE/Ca' Foscari University)
• In contemporary debates about water and rights, Indigenous water beings, such as rainbow serpents and taniwha, have a vital role in expressing the co-creative agency of the non-human domain alongside human rights to water. Drawing on case studies in New Zealand and Australia, this lecture explores how engaging with these powerful ancestral beings can transform dialogues about water rights, law and personhood. It considers their potential to challenge anthropocentric legal frameworks and to promote new and more inclusive forms of multi-species democracy.  
• Panelists: Students of the Master’s Program in Environmental Humanities

11.10-11.20am

• Break

11.20am - 1.00pm

• Personhood and Water Bodies: Cosmological and Legal Frameworks - With: Silvia Francescon (Italian Buddhist Union); Zoi Aliozi (Global Campus for Human Rights); Sara De Vido (Ca' Foscari University); Pietro Consolandi (Ocean Space), Massimo Warglien (NICHE/Ca' Foscari University), Lelei  Lelaulu (Chair of the Earth Council), Pietro Omodeo (Ca' Foscari University) Francesco Gonella (Ca' Foscari University). Moderated by Francesca Tarocco (NICHE/Ca' Foscari University)
• How do we release rivers, seas, lakes and other bodies of water from the depredations of the Anthropocene epoch? How do we begin to disentangle the sea from the legal fiction of the ‘offshore’? How do we connect ecosystems through the entire water column—from the Southern Ocean to the Arctic Sea—in order to keep them healthy? How do we think of seamounts as ‘gardens of the oceans’ with their own living communities of sentient beings? Speakers explore water commons, personhood and multispecies democracy from an interdisciplinary, Indigenous and judicial perspective. This panel will also expand on the ideas and themes discussed in the previous online talanoa on Thursday 29th September 2022, and is part of a year of research focused on water at NICHE.  

1.00pm – 3.00pm

• Free for lunch and travel 

Afternoon program:

3.00 – 5.00pm 

• Visit to Fondazione Querini Stampalia (Castello 5252) and to the exhibition Danh Vo, Isamu Noguchi, Park Seo-Bo - With:  Chiara Bertola, Curator of Contemporary Art Program at Fondazione Querini Stampalia.

For speakers' bios, full info and complete list of supporters, please visit  https://www.talanoaforum.ws/