Flourishing Diversity Co-Founder and Anthropologist Jerome Lewis and Indigenous ecologist Dawn Hill Adams, an enrolled citizen of the Choctaw Nation, the third-largest Indian Nation in the United States, explore some of the ways biocultural diversity serves systems in desperate need of healing.
This recorded dialogue invites attendees into an Indigenous way of thinking and being that perceives no gap between humans and nature, or between spirit and matter, but that instead emphasises living relationships of many different kinds as the ground state from which life, renewal, and healing emerge.
About the speakers:
Jerome Lewis is the Co-founder of Flourishing Diversity. An associate professor at UCL, Jerome’s fieldwork with hunter-gatherers of Central Africa began in 1993. Jerome studied the radically egalitarian politics and economics of these societies, focusing on their conceptualizations of the forest and how they manage its abundance through taboo, myth, ritual, music, and dance.
Dawn Hill Adams, Ph.D., an enrolled citizen of the Choctaw Nation, founded Tapestry Institute in 1998 to develop and carry out research and education programs that advance Indigenous Knowledge. She has been awarded five National Science Foundation grants, is a scientific illustrator and registered Choctaw artist, and a speaker and writer. Her advanced degrees are in evolutionary theory, paleobiology, and ecology, from the University of California Berkeley and the University of Kansas.
Organised by Flourishing Diversity and Tapestry Institute for the Festival of Nature 2022.
