Carolina Osorio Gil is a PhD candidate in Development Sociology at Cornell University’s Department of Global Development where she studies epistemic and ontological strategies of resistance by rural communities (campesina/os) to large-scale development in Latin America. Carolina will present on her dissertation research project, a participatory and ethnographic study in partnership with the Movimiento Ríos Vivos (Living Rivers Movement), a campesina/o movement that is in resistance to Hidroituango, the largest hydroelectric project in Colombia.

David Lametti was the justice minister of Canada who oversaw the expansion of the Medical Assistance in Dying law to allow assisted suicide on the basis of psychiatric illness. With the UK set to vote on assisted dying legislation, and the controversies surrounding the Canadian case, David will be speaking on his experiences and lessons learned.