Join Harvard DRCLAS for an in-person film screening of River of Gold, followed by a discussion with Director Sarah duPont and Brazilian experts Cesar Diniz, Raoni Rajão, and Luiz Eloy Terena on the topics of who profits from illegal gold mining in the Amazon and the consequences of mining on public health, the environment, and Indigenous rights.
Join Harvard DRCLAS for an in-person film screening of River of Gold, followed by a discussion with Director Sarah duPont and Brazilian experts Cesar Diniz, Raoni Rajão, and Luiz Eloy Terena on the topics of who profits from illegal gold mining in the Amazon and the consequences of mining on public health, the environment, and Indigenous rights.
Speakers: Sarah Dupont, Founder & President, Amazon Aid Foundation; César Diniz, Technical Coordinator, Coastal Zone and Mining Team, MapBiomas; Raoni Rajão, Associate Professor of Environmental Management and Social Studies of Science and Technology, Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG) and 2022-2023 Fellow, Wilson Center; Luiz Eloy Terena, Legal Advisor, Articulation of Indigenous Peoples of Brazil (APIB) and Coordination of the Indigenous Organizations of the Brazilian Amazon (COIAB)
Moderated by: Marcia Castro, Andelot Professor of Demography; Chair of the Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Chair, Brazil Studies Program - DRCLAS
A reception with light refreshments will be served as of 5pm and the film screening will begin at 5:30pm. Narrated by Academy Award winners Sissy Spacek and Herbie Hancock, River of Gold is the disturbing account of a clandestine journey bearing witness to the apocalyptic destruction of the rainforest in the pursuit of illegally mined gold. River of Gold reaffirms the right of the rainforest to exist as a repository of priceless biodiversity and not as the toxic remains of man’s greed for gold.
Register in advance. Visit the event page for more information.
Contact: tiago_genoveze@harvard.edu
LOCATION:Tsai Auditorium, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTART:20221019T210000Z DTEND:20221020T000000Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR