The Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Social Justice Noted Scholars Series (co-sponsored by Transformative Memory International Network (TMIN)) presents:
Meditation on Living: Fires and Floods
Dr. Pasang Yangjee Sherpa
WHEN & WHERE
Wednesday, March 12th, 12:00-1:00pm
Buchanan Tower 323
Please RSVP below in advance
A light lunch will be served at 12:00pm.
ABSTRACT
Reflecting on 2024 as the year of fires and floods for the Sherpas in Khumbu, northeastern Nepal, this talk explores a plurality of epistemological approaches that enable the people to live with climate change. The everyday act of living appears here as a desired present on the cusp of a dystopian future. Through this talk, the speaker invites the audience to meditate on what it means to be living today. What kinds of relational technologies – application of relationships for practical purposes – will be activated to live in this moment?
ABOUT Dr. Sherpa
Pasang Yangjee Sherpa is a Sharwa from Pharak, northeastern Nepal (popularly known as the Mount Everest region). She is an Assistant Professor of Lifeways in Indigenous Asia at the University of British Columbia. Her current research employs community-based methodologies to explore collective survival on a warming planet, grounded in her long-term ethnographic study of Sherpa communities at home and amongst the diaspora.
