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Thursday, August 4th, 2022 from 7:00pm-10:00pm PST
The Center SF
548 Fillmore St
San Francisco, CA 94117
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We are excited to announce an in-person Chacruna event that will be focused on educating the public and bringing awareness to the increasingly worrisome living conditions of Indigenous peoples in Brazil under Bolsonaro’s rule. This event will include a panel discussion with Dr. Artionka Capiberibe, who is a Brazilian anthropologist and professor at UNICAMP, and Dr. Bia Labate, who is a Brazilian anthropologist and Executive Director of Chacruna Institute. The panel will be followed by a Q+A, and afterwards, we will also provide a space for socializing among participants and attendees, to whom we will be happy to offer delicious snacks and drinks for refreshment. Tickets to participate in this event can be purchased here.
Often folks in the psychedelic community in the Global North seem to celebrate and appreciate the ecological wisdom, healing abilities, and knowledge of Indigenous shamans, and express deep gratitude for the blessings and healing they receive; some even want to become apprentices to learn to sing and heal themselves. However, after 500 years of colonization in the Americas, Indigenous communities continue to suffer a genocide. When some in the psychedelic community get more critical and political, discussions revolve around matters of cultural appropriation, who has the right to conduct ceremonies, what are the proper dietas, and traditional and legitimate protocols, etc. There is very little discourse that focuses on the current political struggles and demands of Indigenous people. Join Brazilian anthropologist Dr. Bia Labate, who is the Executive Director of Chacruna Institute, in conversation with Dr. Artionka Capiberibe, who is an anthropologist professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Campinas (UNICAMP) in Brazil focused on Indigenous rights, to invert this equation. Let’s understand what Artionka calls “politics in the form or war”, discuss and learn about: who are the indigenous peoples in Brazil, and what laws and public policies guarantee their right to existence; how and by whom the eternal colonizing project installed in Brazil is conducted today and the contemporary enterprises and subjects that threaten Indigenous peoples; what is the genocidal policy against Indigenous peoples conducted by the president Jair Bolsonaro; where the ideology that justifies Bolsonaro’s policy of war against Indigenous peoples comes from and what it is; and why these attacks must be stopped. How can Indigenous peoples and their non-Indigenous allies react and fight back? At a time when decriminalization, medicalization and commodification are at the forefront of the psychedelic movement, it is absolutely crucial to take a look at how Indigenous communities and their livelihoods are being horrendously affected and how we can help.
Program (PST)
7:00 – 7:30pm: Open doors
7:30 – 9:00pm: Panel Dr. Artionka Capiberibe and Dr. Bia Labate + Q&A
9:00 – 10:00pm: Socializing
Artionka Capiberibe obtained her doctorate in social anthropology from the Museu Nacional-UFRJ in 2009. From 2006–2007, she was a visiting researcher at the Centre d’Enseignement et Recherche en Ethnologie Amérindienne (Paris X-Nanterre). Since 1996, she has been working with the Palikur people, an Amerindian people living in the Amazon region on the border of Brazil and French Guiana. The main themes of her research are corporalities, cosmologies, social changes, and religious conversions. This last theme is the focus of her book, Baptism of Fire: The Palikur and Christianity (2007). Capiberibe has also conducted research and published articles on Amazonian development issues. She is a professor in the Department of Anthropology at Unicamp (State University of Campinas), São Paulo, Brazil, and is currently a visiting scholar at UC Berkeley.
Dr. Beatriz Caiuby Labate (Bia Labate) is a queer Brazilian anthropologist based in San Francisco. She has a Ph.D. in social anthropology from the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil. Her main areas of interest are the study of plant medicines, drug policy, shamanism, ritual, religion, and social justice. She is Executive Director of the Chacruna Institute for Psychedelic Plant Medicines (https://chacruna.net, https://chacruna-iri.org, https://chacruna-la.org) and serves as Public Education and Culture Specialist at the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS). She is also Adjunct Faculty at the East-West Psychology Program at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) and Visiting Scholar at Naropa University’s Center for Psychedelic Studies. Additionally, she is member of the Oregon Psilocybin Advisory Board’s Research Subcommittee, and Advisor at the Synthesis Institute and at InnerTrek. Dr. Labate is a co-founder of the Interdisciplinary Group for Psychoactive Studies (NEIP) in Brazil and editor of its site since. She is author, co-author, and co-editor of twenty-five books, two special-edition journals, and several peer-reviewed articles (https://bialabate.net).
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