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INNER TIME VS CINEMATOGRAPHIC TIME – AULab 2024: SESSION 1

PRE-SESSION TEXT (The following is the exchange-conversation that Emilio, Camilo and Marlene (The Ecoversities Audiovisual Lab (AuLab) facilitators) had by email and whatsapp threads, as an initial input and example for the 1st session, that happened on Wednesday February 14th 2024) [2/9, 17:59] Emilio’s email: We have prepared some inputs for reflecting about some aspects

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History, Memory and Civic education 

by Françoise Vergès History’s contribution to civic education and awareness is to alert to the existence of entangled histories, to bring light to the ways in which consent to political and  economic systems is fabricated, the ways in which racist representations are created  and circulated, and how networks of solidarity come to be. The group

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Ecoversities Turtle Island Regional Gathering | Atlan Center Cascadia July 2024

An audiovisual memory from the first Turtle Island Regional Gathering of Ecoversities hosted at Atlan Center, July 2024 A midsummer gathering of education heretics, story weavers, sacred clowns, seed planters, & many other human and more-than-human friends. The Atlan Center and the forests of Cascadia welcomed us to sleep among the trees, under the apricot

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Reciprocity and Love in a Garden

Finding love and reciprocity in the garden during challenging times by growing community-based learning experiences.  by Rosemary Logan Colton Community Garden, Museum of Northern Arizona Flagstaff, Arizona, USA This evening I can nearly taste the scent of the damp clay earth with tinges of resinous pine at the Colton Community Garden in Northern Arizona. I

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University of Community Development – Balochistan

Balochistan is amongst one of the most drought-prone regions in the world, where a change in weather patterns due to climate change has only exacerbated the problem. In the first episode, Safdar Hussain, the co-director of the University of Community Development, tells us of an ‘eco-friendly campus’ that has been set up to show people

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The Prison of Ferality… Besieged Humanity

by Saleh Abu Shamala   Abstract There is nothing more severe and cruel than for a person to live a feeling of oppression and suffering without being able to describe it and determine its causes and sources. It is the feeling of powerlessness and loss of human dignity when uncertainty meets oppression, and it seems

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“You are what you eat”

“You are also what you are schooled to eat” Food is an intrinsic part of our daily life. Since the birth of a child, what, when and how food is, is dictated according to different communities’ way of life. As a child grows up, the caste, race, and the class community they grow up in

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healing intergenerational hurt with the more-than

by Doerte Weig   Trauma – not that which happened, but the inner response to what happened Healing – a renewed and continuous alignment and aliveness with Life I refuse to continue living with a broken heart I cannot live peacefully with a heart raging with anger  What would it mean to heal the hurt in

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