Seminar Series on Decolonisation in the Americas: Knowledge and Everyday Practices

Six online seminars explore decolonisation in the Americas through knowledge, art, land, resistance and education.

Brunel’s interdisciplinary 2026–27 series has six Zoom sessions, each with its own topic and speakers, from November 2026 to May 2027. The published flyer supplies the complete schedule and distinguishes the four in-window sessions from the later April and May meetings. The series is open to colleagues, researchers, students and others interested; attendees request the relevant Zoom link from the organiser. Topics and billed speakers/chairs are: 9 Nov, “A Decolonising Critique for the Americas: on Social Struggles and Hope” (Prof Ana Cecilia Dinerstein; chair Dr Anamika Twyman-Ghoshal); 7 Dec, “The Guarani-Kaiowá People: Land, Struggle and Resistance” (Prof Antônio Ioris; chair Prof Nicola Ansell); 1 Feb, “Telling Otherwise: The Decolonisation of Knowledge through Artistic Practices in Latin America” (Dr Jamille Pinheiro Dias and Andrea Zuin; chair Prof Henry Stobart); 8 Mar, “Botanical Knowledge and Research in the Amazon and the Atlantic Forest: Decolonising Plants and the Female Body” (Prof Laure Emperaire and Dr Sabrina Latansio; chair Dr Michelle Kline); 26 Apr, “Guarani Shamanism, Musical Practices and Cosmology: Perspectives towards Decolonising Knowledge” (Prof Deise Lucy Montardo); and 10 May, “Indigenous Knowledge and Decolonising Practices in Education” (Prof Patricia Barkaskas). Zoom details are requested from the organiser.