This fall, SfLF will be reading the book Hopicing Modernity by Vanessa Machado de Oliveira, and we’re inviting you to join us.
Read along with our schedule, either independently or by forming your own pairs or discussion groups, and participate in co-creating a “Running Archive” of reflections and questions as we go. Participation is free and open to all.
Reading Group Structure
A small group of us at The School for Living Futures will be meeting in person bi-weekly through the fall (September 13 - Dec 4) to discuss the book. We’re inviting our broader community to participate by reading alongside us and staying connected through a Google Classroom.
To join us:
Join our Google Classroom (must have a google or edu email address), where you will find participation guidelines and access the Running Archive document where you can read and share reflections and responses as we go.
Follow our reading schedule.
*Note: This is a free community offering. If you’d like to support our programming with a donation, click on the support banner at the top of this page.
About the Book
Described as a “thought-provoking guide to facing global pandemics, climate change, and other modern crises with maturity, humility, and integrity,” Hospicing Modernity is a challenging and transformative book. Part Indigenous and Educational approaches to climate change, part workbook, and part manifesto (and full of poems and stories), this text asks us to feel more deeply into the roots of our current crises and question many of our foundational beliefs and assumptions that perpetuate them.
About the Author
Vanessa Machado de Oliveira Andreotti (she/her) is a Latinx professor at the University of British Columbia. She holds a Canada Research Chair in Race, Inequalities, and Global Change. She began her career as a teacher in Brazil in 1994 and has since led educational and research programs in countries including the UK, Finland, Aotearoa/New Zealand, Brazil, and Canada.
Andreotti works across sectors in international and comparative education, particularly focusing on global justice and citizenship, Indigenous and community engagement, sustainability, and social and ecological responsibility. Her research examines relationships between historical, systemic, and on-going forms of violence, and the inherent unsustainability of modernity. Andreotti is one of the founding members of Gesturing Decolonial Futures Collective (decolonialfutures.net) and Teia das 5 Curas, an international network of Indigenous communities mostly in Canada and Latin America. She currently collaborates with with these groups to direct research projects and learning initiatives related to global healing and wellbeing in times of unprecedented challenges.