Your donation helps support the Pre-Congress Workshop for Emerging Ethnobiolgists!
In 2009, ISE members identified several gaps in the formal education they were receiving, especially around the issues of ethical research methods and cultivation of mutually beneficial relationships with the communities in which they worked. In effort to support the next generation of leaders in the field, the ISE began holding workshops for students and early career ethnobiologists in conjunction with our congresses. The timing allows the ISE to invite a wide variety of experts, who are already attending the congresses, to act as resource people in the workshops and maximizes the opportunity for workshop participants to network internationally with experienced people in their field of study. Because ethnobiology is a small field, these workshops are important to unite emerging scholars and to support them to be as innovative as the founders of the discipline.
The next ISE pre-Congress Workshops for Emerging Ethnobiologists will be held in Bhutan in 2014; specific workshop themes include: 1) research ethics and partnerships, 2) intergenerational and indigenous research approaches, and 3) bridging academic and practical research outcomes, among others. A call for participation in this 2014 workshop will be announced soon!
An important outcome of the first ISE Workshop for Emerging Ethnobiologists in 2010 was the creation of the International Network of Emerging Ethnobiologists (INEE). The INEE provides a way for emerging ethnobiologists to connect virtually with each other and with mentors in between the workshops and congresses. The INEE is managed by the Student Representatives on the ISE Board. If you are interested in getting involved in the activities and programs of INEE, join us using our blog or our facebook group.
A donation of $25 pays for a student’s meal, $50 pays for a student’s accommodation, $75 sponsors a field visit activity, $100 sponsors a student’s registration for the workshop, $200 sponsors a mentor for the workshop!
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What students are saying about the ISE Pre-Congress Workshops
“The second pre-congress workshop in Montpellier, France was opportunity for me to meet many young scholars from different regions of the world. What I like most about the workshop was active engagement to learn things from each other through busy conversation. To me, the pre-congress workshop can be a forum that will help prepare society’s (ISE) next generation of responsible citizen. I see great opportunities for ISE to engage these emerging scholars in the interest of strengthening institution. I really enjoyed being a participant for the workshop and visiting Europe for the first time. Hope to see you all in Bhutan!”
– Jigme Dorji
“Every mentor’s lecture was impressive for me, because we don’t have a class of ethnobiology in Japan. There, some people studying in ecological anthropology, agronomy, or environmental and rural sociology learn just a part of ethnobiology by reading academic papers; there are no systematic and inclusive course of “ethnobiology” in Japan, and maybe in other east Asian countries.”
– Takanori Oishi
Read previous Stories about the first ISE Congresses and the continuing goals of our biennial meetings.