Stories Are Living Structures with Tyson Yunkaporta

At the foundation of every culture are stories that shape how we relate to one another and the more-than-human world. While many of these take the form of texts, they also exist as living structures, embodied by relationships, knowledge, conversations, memories, and ceremony.

In the second lecture of our Seeds and Structures online series, Aboriginal scholar Tyson Yunkaporta will explore story as an epistemic seed and psycho-technology that can carry ecological and relational wisdom across generations and spaces. He will also examine Indigenous “borderwork” and governance structures that sustain fluid relationships and obligations between land, animals, plants, people, and cultures. And, drawing from his broader work on the power of right story, Tyson will speak to the relevance of “transknowledging”—the exchange of knowledge across groups, regions, and species vital to the coexistence of all living systems during times of deep social and ecological rupture.

Part of the launch of our new print edition, Volume 7: Seeds and Structures, this series offers a dynamic space to engage with radical spiritual, practical, cosmological, and ecological structures that can help us seed a future of embodied reciprocity and exchange with the Earth. We invite you to check out and register for the other lectures in this series: The Seeds of the Long Story with acclaimed author Sophie Strand and Seeds and Our Co-Evolved Psyches with writer and naturalist Yuvan Aves.

DETAILS

Date: Thursday November 12, 2026, 5–6:30pm PST

Format: Zoom webinar lecture followed by Q&A

Tickets: Available on a sliding scale of $5–$20 USD

Recording: A recording will be shared with all ticket holders after the event

ABOUT TYSON YUNKAPORTA

Tyson Yunkaporta is an Aboriginal scholar who belongs to the Apalech Clan in far north Queensland. He is the founder of the Indigenous Knowledge Systems Lab at Deakin University in Melbourne, the author of Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World and Right Story, Wrong Story: Adventures in Indigenous Thinking, and a carver of traditional tools and weapons. His work focuses on applying Indigenous methods of inquiry to address complex issues and global crises.