The Ethos Fellowship youth are delighted to welcome you to join their conversation with Professor Yin Paradies. Yin, the Chair in Race Relations at Deakin University, will start by exploring the constructions of Western culture, colonisation and modernity as well as Indigenous worldviews, perspectives and philosophies. He'll be opening the conversation about practical decolonial actions that flow from these perspectives and potential emergent decolonial futures.

This session will include opportunities for reflection in small break-out groups followed by a discussion and time for questions.

ABOUT OUR GUEST: PROFESSOR YIN PARADIES

Professor Yin Paradies is an Aboriginal-Asian-Anglo Australian of the Wakaya people from the Gulf of Carpentaria. He is Chair in Race Relations at Deakin university. He conducts research on the health, social and economic effects of racism as well as anti-racism theory, policy and practice across diverse settings, including online, in workplaces, schools, universities, housing, the arts, sports and health. He also teaches and undertakes research in Indigenous knowledges and decolonisation. Yin is an anarchist radical scholar and climate / ecological activist who is committed to understanding and interrupting the devastating impacts of modern societies. He seeks meaningful mutuality of becoming and embodied kinship with all life through transformed ways of knowing, being and doing that are grounded in wisdom, humility, respect, generosity, down-shifted collective sufficiency, voluntary simplicity, frugality, direct participation and radical localisation.

ABOUT THE ETHOS FELLOWSHIP

The Ethos Fellowship is a group of youth (pr)activists initiated by Morag Gamble of the Permaculture Education Institute and the Ethos Foundation with the intention of connecting youth [pr]activists with the knowledge and wisdom of leading ecological thinkers of our time - a university without walls, run in the gift-economy. This particular Ethos Conversation is being organised and hosted by Ethos Fellow, Luke Barson from Melbourne.