Future Congresses
2012 2014
The 13th ISE Congress (2012): 20-25 May 2012
The ISE Board is pleased to announce that the 13th Congress of the International Society of Ethnobiology will be held Montpellier, France from 20-25 May 2012. The Congress theme will be Cultural diversity and biological diversity for sustainable development: Exploring the past to build up the future. Read more about the 2012 Congress.
Host Organization: The research team “Biocultural Interactions: domestication, resource management and human ecology” – a multidisciplinary (ethnobiology, geography, anthropology, ecology, genetics) and pluri-institutional (IRD, CNRS, CIRAD, University of Montpellier 2) group of scientists hosted at the Center for Functional and Evolutionary Ecology (CEFE).
Check out the Congress website for up-to-date information or contact the Organizers at: congress-ise2012@agropolis.fr
The Call for Session Proposals is now open. Deadline for first-stage submissions: Now extended to APRIL 18th, 2011
The 14th ISE Congress (2014)
The ISE Board is pleased to announce that the 14th Congress of the International Society of Ethnobiology will be held in Bhutan. The proposed overarching theme of the is Linking conservation and sacred natural sites: Understanding the conservation and management knowledge of our ancestors.
Host Organization: Ugyen Wangchuck Institute for Conservation and Environment
Some of the sub-themes include:
Protected Areas and People
What is the role of ethnobiology in protected areas? Under this sub theme, strict nature reserves, protected areas, national parks and wildlife sanctuaries will be explored as cross-cultural interfaces with potentials for both conflict and innovative co-management of land and natural resources.
Buddhism and environments
Forestry and conservation in Bhutan is integrated with a blend of people’s religious sentiments. It is believed that “if we pollute the heaven above, the mountain in between and the land below, we are bound to suffer the wrath of their respective deities”. Ancient Bhutanese love for nature and reverence for all life forms have played a vital role factor in providing the present status Bhutan enjoys today. This sub theme will provide lot of opportunity to exchange and share thoughts and ideas among the participants.
Impact of policy evolution on natural resource management
The interaction between people and natural environment has always been intimate and strong which has favoured the conservation of biological diversity. With the change of policy regulation, people’s perceptions towards conserving biological resources are rapidly diminishing. This sub theme will explore a number of contexts for putting ethnobiological ideas into practice and using practices to inform policy for the stewardship of biological and cultural diversity and ecosystem health. We expect the congress will promote and foster the understanding of roles played by sacred sites in relation to the belief of the local community to conserve the bio-diversity and ecosystem health.
This proposal was approved at the 12th Congress in Tofino, Canada (2010). Read the full proposal to host the 14th ISE Congress and view the presentation “Glimpses of Bhutan“, which was shared at the 2nd General Assembly in Tofino!
