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Science in Ceremony Colloquium

Thursday, May 5th 2:00 – 4:00 pm

Facilitators: Barbara Muraca and Kurt Russo

Roundtable Speakers: Jay Julius or Jewell James, JoDe Goudy, Scott Pratt

The Science in Ceremony roundtable takes as its point of departure the proposition that Indigenous ceremonial knowledge—in the predicates and presuppositions of its protocols and practices—is a science in its own right and in its own terms. Traditional ceremonial knowledge has an internal perspicuous order, criteria for truth, and standards of coherence that are rigorous, right, and appropriate and is part of an epochal, ancient, sovereign and inspirited worldmaking process. Modernist, mathematized formulations of knowledge, with neither an a priori nor an a posteriori justification, portray traditionalistic ways of knowing what is real and true as having at best a minimum of acceptable theory. The aim of this Roundtable is not to debate this topic. Our aim, in this potlatch of ideas, is to bring to this conversation in a good way an exchange of ideas to help identify the questions that need to be asked to further explore this proposition from an Indigenous as well as non-Indigenous perspective.