12th October: Day of the Indigenous Resistance. Sondersendung 2024

Technical Support:  Manuel A. Galvan

Moderation:

Christina Korak

Postdoctoral researcher who conducted fieldwork in Waorani communities in the Ecuadorian Amazon rainforest, which are affected by oil exploitation and deforestation. Her research focuses on translating Indigenous worldviews, and she teaches at the Department of Translation Studies and the Department of European Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Graz. She is also active as an interpreter. Since the age of 18, she has regularly visited Latin America and is committed to combining research with efforts to improve the living conditions of Indigenous peoples. For her dissertation, she lived and conducted research from 2012 to 2013, and in 2015, in Quito, Puyo, and in Waorani and Kichwa villages in the Amazon. Her work focused on the political influences of oil companies, government organizations, and religious groups on Indigenous language use.

Live Guests:

Peninah Lesorogol

A representative of the Samburu people (Kenya), she grew up in Naiborkeju, a village in northern Kenya in the Great Rift Valley. She was one of the first women from her community to attend university. For many years, she has led projects that strengthen the sovereignty of Samburu women through the production of traditional handicrafts and promote agroforestry projects in their region, aimed at ensuring an autonomous food and water supply.

Roberta Maierhofer

Professor of American Studies and director of the Center for Inter-American Studies. Her research focuses on the cultural representations of material realities in terms of transregional and interdisciplinary American-European relationships, which translates to her focusing on the “how” of the “where, when, and what” in past and present contexts.

Marcela Torres Heredia

Educator, researcher, and activist from Colombia, based in Vienna. Doctoral candidate in Anthropology at the University of Vienna and participant in various collective initiatives of memory and resistance in Vienna. Her research focuses on decoloniality, feminism, socio-ecological conflicts, and intersectionality.

Ana Barón

Ana (Bogotá, Colombia) completed her undergraduate and master’s degree in Applied Foreign Languages in France. Due to the strong colonization of the Muisca culture (although today there is a strong reindigenization movement), she works with indigenous friends and families from different regions of Colombia, especially from the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Llanos Orientales and Amazonas (Tikuna people).