The Abya Yala Pluriversity Week of Science and Technology took place between April 1 and 5, 2024 and marked the inauguration of the Abya Yala Pluriversity initiative at Virginia Tech, which supports the circulation of Indigenous and Black people and knowledges in academia.
The Week featured Yunuen Torres Ascencio, a P’urhépecha woman from Cherán as a guest speaker, and was co-organized by professors Fernanda Rosa (Science, Technology, and Society, VT), Shaddi Hasan (Computer Science, VT), Diego Vicentin (School of Applied Sciences, UNICAMP, Brazil), and the graduate students Fabiano Galletti Faleiros (Social sciences, UNICAMP, Brazil), and Wesley Woo (Computer Science, VT).
The week’s activities included multiple modalities such as film, class, reading group, workshop, seminar, discussions with Indigenous students at VT and tours in the region.
The Abya Yala Pluriversity Week was sponsored by the Just Tech Fellowship, the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences’s Global Partnership Project Grant and Diversity Mini Grant, the Departments of Science, Technology, and Society and Computer Science, the Ati: Wa:oki Indigenous Community Center, the Center for Humanities, and El Centro.
The Abya Yala Pluriversity was launched in the first week of April 2024, with the Abya Yala Pluriversity Week in the Department of Science, Technology, and Society at Virginia Tech, in the lands of Tutelo and Monacan people, with a series of events around the visit of Yunuen Torres Ascencio, from where we call today Cherán, México.
This initiative has received the support of the Social Science Research Council Just Tech Fellowship, with funds of the Ford Foundation, MacArthur Foundation, Surdna Foundation, and Democracy Fund.
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