Rural Issues Workshop-FR

Event Details:

Our penultimate Rural Issues Workshop of the season will feature Dr. Claudia Mosquera, a Professor of Social Work, a researcher of the Center for Social Studies at the National University of Colombia in Bogotá, and a Harrison McCain Visiting Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of New Brunswick. 

The time has been changed to 3:15  - 4:45 p.m. to accommodate the W. Stewart MacNutt Memorial Lecture featuring Professor Harvey Amani Whitfield, from the University of Vermont, who will be discussing “Slave Lives Matter: Putting Biography at the Centre of Atlantic Canadian Slavery Studies.”

Dr. Claudia Mosquera is one of Colombia’s preeminent established Black scholars, and an expert on the African Diaspora and the Black Americas. She is a researcher of the Center for Social Studies at the National  University of Colombia. She obtained her Ph.D. from the University of Laval and her MA from the University of Paris III (Sorbonne Nouvelle). Dr. Mosquera is part of the Research Group on Racial Equality, Cultural Difference, Environmental Conflicts, and Racisms in the Black Americas (IDCARAN). 

Rather than circulate a paper, this RIW will feature a conversation about the peasantry, the agrarian question, and the peace accords in Colombia. Dr. Mosquera looks forward to insight on thinking about these questions and on rural issues from workshop participants. 

To facilitate this conversation, attendees are encouraged to watch or read one or more the following:

- A short five-minute film by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization abouthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e537AMz0lZ4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e537AMz0lZ44

- A half-hour interview with Dr. Catherine LeGrand on the https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axnNkHhEE0g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axnNkHhEE0g

- Pages 259 to 265 of an article by Catherine C. LeGrand, Luis van Isschot & Pilar Riaño-Alcalá (2017) Land, justice, and memory: challenges for peace in Colombia, Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies / Revue canadienne des études latino-américaines et caraïbes, 42:3, 259-276

Questions to consider:

How to think about the agrarian question in Colombia, and what insights can you bring?

After the workshop, you are welcome to join Dr. Mosquera and attend the Stewart MacNutt Memorial Lecture at the Alfred G. Bailey Auditorium, Tilley Hall, Room 102. 

As always, come having read the material, be prepared to listen, to ask questions, to make comments, and to converse with the presenter and other workshop attendees.

Please share this invitation with any colleagues or students who you think would find this event of interest.

Kind regards,

Daniel Tubb
Assistant Professor
Anthropology, UNB Fredericton
[Rural Issues Poster Claudia.pdf]

Building: Forestry and Geology

Room Number: Rm 202