Episode Details

Episode Topic: Yarning with Indigenous Traditions 

In an era of compounding global crises, our speakers offer a strategic intervention: a move beyond the transactional toward the relational. This dialogue interrogates the “myth of progress,” dismantles the currency of academic perfection, and retrieves custodial responsibility through the protocols of “Embassy.” Dr. Tyson Yunkaporta, Dr. Ashlee Bird, and Dr. Sousan Abadian examine how Indigenous wisdom provides essential checks on the malignant narcissism driving modern global disconnection and institutional failure.

Featured Speakers:

• Ashlee Bird, University of Notre Dame
• Dr. Sousan Abadian, Interfaith Council of Metropolitan Washington
• Tyson Yunkaporta, Deakin University 

Read this episode's recap over on the University of Notre Dame's open online learning community platform, ThinkND: https://go.nd.edu/ef5ecc.

This podcast is a part of the ThinkND Series titled Indigenous Voices. 

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