LASS 2021: Silvia Cusicanqui

Sur Gallery / LACAP

The Latin American Speakers Series presents: SILVIA RIVERA CUSICANQUI Thursday, 27 May 2021, 6 PM (ET) on ZoomPresented in partnership with Indigenous Creation Studio MVS.Join us on Thursday, May 27, 2021, for a special lecture with invited scholar Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui, a renowned Bolivian sociologist, historian, theorist, and activist of Aymara descent. Professor Rivera will speak explore the long history of Indigenous resistance to colonialism and imperialism through her ongoing critique of Western epistemologies. In her lecture she will discuss her most recent book translated into English "Ch’ixinakax utxiwa: On Decolonizing Practices and Discourses" and will share her research on the sociology of the image and the Eurocentrism of its discourse.ABOUT THE SPEAKERBorn in 1949 of Aymara ancestry, sociologist and activist, SILVIA RIVERA CUSICANQUI is an activist in the Katarista movement, a political movement in Bolivia that aims to recover the political identity of the Aymara people and is also involved with the coca grower’s movement. She is one of the founders and long-time members of the Taller de Historia Oral Andina-THOA (Workshop on Andean Oral History), an independent group formed in 1983 that deals with issues of identity, and popular and indigenous social movements. In 2009, she became a member of the free independent collective Colectivx Ch’ixi in Bolivia focusing on agroecology, food sovereignty and courses on sociology of the image. Since 1984, Cusicanqui has published several books such as Oppressed but Not Defeated: Peasant Struggles Among the Aymara and Quechua in Bolivia, 1900-1980 (1984); Borders of Coca: Colonial Epistemologies and Alternative Circuits of the Coca Leaf (2003); Sociology of the Image (2015); and Ch’ixinakax Utxiwa: A Reflection on the Practices and Discourses of Decolonization (English edition 2020); among many others. For over three decades, Cusicanqui has been professor of Sociology at the Universidad Mayor de San Andrés in La Paz, where she is now Emeritus Professor. She is a frequently invited speaker at various universities including New York University, University of Austin, Columbia University, University of Pittsburg, Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar in Quito, and The School of Advanced Studies in Social Sciences in Paris, among many others.ABOUT THE LATIN AMERICAN SPEAKERS SERIESThe Latin American Speakers Series aims to contextualize contemporary art within Canada as well as enrich our understanding of the art from both the continent and the Diaspora through lectures, audio-visual presentations, group critiques with local artists, workshops and online interviews. The Latin American Speakers Series is presented by Latin American Canadian Art Projects.For more information contact:LACAP39 Queens Quay East Suite 100Toronto, ON M5E 0A5www.lacap.cawww.surgallery.cawww.surgalleryvirtual.ca416-654-7787info@lacap.cafacebook.com/LACAPartsyoutube.com/user/lacapcanadaLACAP gratefully acknowledges the financial support of the Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council, Toronto Arts Council, and The City of Toronto through section 37 as well as its partner Indigenous Creation Studio MVS.

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