Recommended: Tuiscint na Talún can be translated as ‘wisdom of the land’; referring to the wisdom that the land itself holds. This means recognising the land itself as the most fundamental teacher in our lives, and actively seeking out the lessons it can share with us in a relationship based on reciprocity.

The seminar will be centred on discussions around the ways in which colonial modernity (as the world system we live within) has disenchanted the world and disconnected humanity from the concept of ‘nature’. In Western colonial culture, ‘nature’ is seen to be out there beyond society, away from humans, as something to be managed and controlled either for resources, development, or conservation. Breaking down this illusion that we are somehow separate from nature, or the land, is a critical task at this juncture for us as a species as we face the growing material realities of our own extinction driven by the unsustainability of our sociopolitical present.

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