Gender and (de) coloniality: sharing some Latin American Concept and Social Experiences

Date: Wednesday,15th February 2023
Time: 11:00 AM – 12.00 P.M. (ICT/GMT+0700 Bangkok Time)
Venue: Room S101, SERD Building, AIT, Thailand

The Department of Development and Sustainability is pleased to invite you to the Special Lecture titled Gender and (de) coloniality: sharing some Latin American Concept and Social Experiences by Dr. Ana Gretel Echazú Böschemeier, TWAS/UNESCO fellow, Brazil.

By sharing a gender-linked, provisional genealogy that dates back to the XVI Century in Latin America, this session will discuss some fundamental contributions – theoretical as well as experiential – made by indigenous, Black, and other decolonial intellectuals and activists. From there, a few pertinent contemporary concepts and methods raised by the idea of “decolonizing gender, decolonizing our worlds” will be discussed. Why would that matter? Do we possess the means to do that? Should we begin to create a “genderized, decolonial toolkit” to aid in enhancing our conversations between specific locations from the Global South – such as Brazil, Argentina, and Thailand? What role does historically built concepts of gender play in this situation? During this talk, the audience will be encouraged to consider their realities from a decolonizing perspective.

Speaker

Dr. Ana Gretel Echazú Böschemeier, TWAS/UNESCO fellow, Brazil

Bio

Ana Gretel Echazú Böschemeier is a researcher, educator, translator and writer. She is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology and the Post-Degree Program in Social Anthropology at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN). She holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Brasilia (2015), and a Postdoctoral training at the Collective Health Program from the UFRN (2016-2018). She leads the Research Group from National Sciences Council ” Best Practices Collective and is a former member of the Ethics in Research Central Committee at the Federal University from Rio Grande do Norte, as well as a former advisor in the Assessing UNESCO/UNTREF II “Campaign for Eradicating Racism in Higher Education Institutions from Latin America” Committee. She was honoured
with the UFRN Prize for Young Researchers (2018), is currently an ambassador of the Parent in Science Network (Nature Prize for Inspiring Women in Science, 2021), and was recently awarded with the TWAS-UNESCO Fellowship (2022-2025). She has written books, book chapters, scientific articles, and media posts, as well as translated/published materials related to health, gender/racial inequalities, feminism(s), South-South diplomacy, Human Rights, and participatory research.