Dear Dhamma Friends,
Stay tuned for Tuesday evening as we continue with our Dhammapariyesanā series #57.
Please join Bhante Dr. Chandima for an interview with Assistant Professor Natalie Avalos on decolonial healing from historical trauma.
Natalie Avalos is an Assistant Professor in the Ethnic Studies Department at the University of Colorado Boulder. She received her doctorate from the University of California at Santa Barbara in Religious Studies (2015) with a special focus on Native American and Indigenous Religious Traditions and Tibetan Buddhism. Dr. Avalos is an ethnographer of religion whose research and teaching focus on comparative Indigeneities, urban Indian and Tibetan refugee religious life, decolonial praxis, and healing historical trauma. Prior to joining CU Boulder as a postdoc, she taught in the Religious Studies department at Connecticut College. She is currently working on her manuscript titled The Metaphysics of Decoloniality: Transnational Indigeneities and Religious Refusal. It argues that the reassertion of land-based logics among Native and Tibetan peoples not only de-centers settler colonial claims to legitimate knowledge but also articulates forms of sovereignty rooted in interdependent relations of power among all persons, human and other-than-human. She is a Chicana of Apache descent, born and raised in the Bay Area.
Dr. Avalos publishes on Native American and Indigenous Religious Traditions, Tibetan Buddhism, Race and Religion, Social Justice, and Decolonization. Some of her scholarship is available here: https://www.colorado.edu/ethnicstudies/people/core-faculty/natalie-avalos
See you at 6.30pm (MT), (8.30pm EST).
May you be well and happy!
Patisota Team
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