Conversation with Author: Banzeiro Òkòtó, the Amazon as the Center of the World

Join us for a conversation between Professor César Rodríguez-Garavito, director of the Earth Rights Advocacy Clinic, and Eliane Brum, award-winning Brazilian journalist, writer, and documentarian. The conversation will center on Brum's new book, Banzeiro Òkòtó: The Amazon as the Center of the World, which is a confrontation with the destruction of the Amazon by a writer who moved to the heart of the forest to bear witness. Copies of the book will be available for purchase.

This is one of three panels hosted by the Earth Rights Advocacy Clinic at NYU School of Law on March 27-28 to discuss the rights of Indigenous peoples in Brazil, state responsibilities to guarantee these rights, and public policies for reparations and the protection of these communities in their territories. 

The other two panels are:

Genocide and State Responsibility: The Struggle of the Yanomami Nation 
March 27, 5:30-7:30 p.m. at Room 216 in Furman Hall

A New Era for Brazil's Indigenous Nations: Imagining the Future to Remedy the Present
March 28, 5:30-7:30 p.m. in the Lester Pollack Colloquium Room in Furman Hall

See the event website for more information.