Hospicing Modernity with Vanessa de Oliveira Andreotti

Event Overview

In the Work That Reconnects we acknowledge that the unraveling of the structures of Business As Usual is an essential aspect of the Great Turning and we are invited to embrace the uncertainty of what lies ahead. But how do we navigate such uncharted terrain?

In Hospicing Modernity, Vanessa de Oliveira Andreotti guides readers through layers of this inquiry and directly into the experience of tenderly extracting ourselves from the entanglements of modernity. How can we see modernity through to its end with compassion, curiosity and dignity? 

Vanessa will join us on October 26th and together, we will reimagine ways of broadening our personal and collective response to the demise of modernity.

“Modernity’s colonization of our unconscious means that most people will gravitate toward what is easier, most comfortable, and most familiar, toward what will fulfill their modern desires and temporarily address their sense of depletion. The possibility of emptying ourselves of these desires, of letting both our securities and insecurities go, is only viable when everything else fails, or when we grow bored with our own delusions.” – Vanessa de Oliveira Andreotti

Saturday, October 26 2024 @ 10am-12pm (UTC-7)

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The whole group portions of this webinar will be recorded. Activities and sharing that occur within breakout rooms will not be recorded. The recording will be available three days after the live webinar and will be sent by email to all those who are registered.

A week following this event, we are offering a Conversation Café. We hope you can join us for this opportunity to delve more deeply into the material that emerges from our time with Vanessa. 

Resources:

• Hospicing Modernity: Facing humanity’s wrongs and the implications for social activism
• Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures
• The Four denials
• Resilience.org podcast – Vanessa and Nate Hagens
• Festival of Debate: Hospicing Modernity with Vanessa De Oliveira Andreotti

Vanessa de Oliveira Andreotti is the Dean of the Faculty of Education at the University of Victoria. She is a former Canada Research Chair in Race, Inequalities and Global Change and a former David Lam Chair in Critical Multicultural Education. Vanessa has more than 100 published articles and has worked extensively across sectors internationally in areas of education related to global justice, global citizenship, critical literacies, Indigenous knowledge systems and the climate and nature emergency. Vanessa is the author of Hospicing Modernity: Facing humanity’s wrongs and the implications for social activism, one of the founders of the Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures Arts/Research Collective and one of the designers of the course Facing Human Wrongs: Climate Complexity and Relational Accountability, available at UVic through Continuing Studies.