Speakers: João Biehl, Susan Dod Brown Professor of Anthropology. Chair, Department of Anthropology. Princeton University Michel Oppenheimer, Albert G. Milbank Professor of Geosciences and International Affairs and the High Meadows Environmental Institute. Director, Center for Policy Research on Energy and the Environment. Princeton University Anu Ramaswami, Sanjay Swani ’87 Professor of India Studies. Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies, and the High Meadows Environmental Institute. Director, Chadha Center for Global India. Princeton University Elke Weber, Gerhard R. Andlinger Professor in Energy and the Environment, Professor of Psychology and the School of Public and International Affairs. Associate Director for Education, Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment. Director, Fung Global Fellows Program. Princeton University Moderator: Deborah Yashar, Donald E. Stokes Professor of Public and Intern
Speakers: Rafaela Dancygier, Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Princeton School of Public and International Affairs. Director, Mamdouha S. Bobst Center for Peace and Justice. Princeton University Filiz Garip, Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs. Princeton University Anna Stilz, Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Politics and the University Center for Human Values. Princeton University Moderator: Deborah Yashar, Donald E. Stokes Professor of Public and International Affairs. Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Princeton School of Public and International Affairs. Director, Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies. Princeton University
On Jan. 31, the University community had the opportunity to hear Davi Kopenawa speak about the ongoing systematic erasure of the Yanomami people and what it means for the Amazon Rainforest.
Shaman and Yanomami Indigenous leader Davi Kopenawa spoke at a Princeton panel discussion. Kopenawa has advocated for the Yanomami people’s rights since the 1970s and is the author of "The Falling Sky: Words of a Yanomami Shaman."
FUNG PUBLIC TALK Are citizens' assemblies a solution to solve two pressing crises: democratic dissatisfaction and climate emergency? The Citizens' Convention for Climate, and the Great National Debate in France, or the Conference on the Future of Europe, were attempts presented as new initiatives. Recently, many climate assemblies are or have been organized at the national level, in the UK, Ireland, Germany, Spain, Denmark, the Netherlands, etc. These large-scale processes bring together randomly selected ordinary citizens tasked to provide public policy recommendations, after hearing experts and stakeholders, and deliberating among themselves. What are the promises, limitations, and risks of these democratic experimentations? Is there a deliberative specificity for climate policies, where non-elected representatives might be more concerned about long-term sustainability rather than re-election? These innovations, called mini-publics, indicate how difficult it is to reach hig