2024-25 Seminars/Workshops
Listed below are all 2024-2025 ISRR sessions, recorded and upcoming.
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December, 13th 2024: Session 3 – Radical Relationalism Revisited by Christopher Powell & Radical Relational Individuality (RRI): Decolonial Expansiveness and Freedom by Monica Sanchez-Flores
This online ISSR seminar took place on December 13, 2024. Christopher Powel from Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada and Monica Sanchez-Flores from Thompson Rivers University, Canada were the speakers in this session. Christopher Powell’s talk, titled Radical Relationalism Revisited, delved into the various dimensions of radical relationalism, offering a revised perspective on their 2013 article, “Radical Relationalism: A Proposal”. This included touching upon ontology, epistemology, ethics, politics, the self, and the spirit, and the interconnections between these themes within the radical relationalism framework.
Monica Sanchex-Flores’s talk Radical Relational Individuality (RRI): Decolonial Expansiveness and Freedom explores the colonial roots of concepts like individuality, human rights, and cosmopolitanism. Their talk deep dives into colonial histories that dehumanize racialized groups. They offer Radical Relational Individuality (RRI) as an embedded, and expansive framework that emphasizes the interconnectedness of embodied individuals with their environments, and relationships.
Books referred to in this talk- Joyful Militancy: Building Thriving Resistance in Toxic Times by Carla Bergman and Nick Montgomery; Us: Getting Past You and Me to Build a More Loving Relationship by Terrence Real
October, 25th 2024: Session 1 – Relational Thought in the Social Sciences and Radical Relationism by Christopher Powell from Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada.
This ISRR seminar that took place on October 25th, 2024, session 1 focuses on Relational Thought in the Social Sciences and Radical Relationism by Christopher Powell from Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada. The talk was followed by an interactive session with graduate students from the Masters of Arts in Human Rights and Social Justice at Thompson Rivers University. Questions posed covered the role of radical relationalism in decolonizing universities, radical relationalism as an ally of Indigenous worldviews that focuses on relationality, diverse applications of radical relationalism as a interdisciplinary research framework, and radical relationalism as a framework that embraces humility, failure and uncertainty.
October, 25th 2024: Session 2- Spiritual (Transnational) Indigenous Activism by David Villanueva (Maya Nahuatl)
This ISRR seminar that took place on October 25th, 2024, session 2 focuses on Spiritual (Transnational) Indigenous Activism by David Villanueva (Maya Nahuatl). The talk was followed by an interactive session with graduate students from the Masters of Arts in Human Rights and Social Justice at Thompson Rivers University. The discussion foreground peace, compassion and for all humans and non-humans as a central pathway to interconnectedness and reinforcing knowledge as a responsibility. Questions explored challenges an indigenous activists faces and how to respond to the challenges, ways to ally with indigenous water keepers and dealing with daily representation of colonization.