On 16 April social anthropologist Paride Bollettin will do a public talk themed 'Who Lives in the Wetlands? Multispecies Collectives and Controversies on Conservation'.

About the talk

In my talk, I shall start with two ethnographic cases from Italy and Brazil, describing how multispecies collectives work in defining conservation policies. In particular, I will be discussing two core topics: controversies on environmental conservation and how conservation policies modify daily life of both human and non-human actors. At the end, I am going to ask the audience members to describe and discuss Latvian cases, such as Lake Pape.

About the speaker

Paride Bollettin received his PhD in Anthropology from the University of Siena (Italy). Over the years, he worked in various institutions in Italy, Brazil, and the UK. Currently he is Visiting Professor at the Federal University of Bahia (Brazil) and Research Fellow at Durham (UK). He has conducted research on various topics, and is now involved in a new research project on wilderness, conservation, and multispecies collectives.

This will be Paride Bollettin's second visit to Latvia and RSU. The first time around, two years ago, he introduced RSU social anthroplogy master's students to his study of the Amazon region. In the Spring semester of the current academic year he is conducting two new exciting courses, Environmental Anthropology and Introduction to Multispecies Ethnogrpahy.

For more details, please visit the Facebook event page.

Language: English. No admission charge.