Dear ISE members and friends,
Registration for international participants is now open! Registration for Bhutanese will open soon. The congress venue has capacity for a maximum of 500 participants. As we are anticipating between 100-150 Bhutanese participants, registration for international participants will be capped at 350 and will be available on a first-come, first-serve basis. Once this fills, we will maintain a waiting list and add...
Registration for attending the congress will open in October 2013 and close at the end of January 2014. Another logistical reality is that the congress venue has capacity for a maximum of 500 participants. As we are anticipating between 100-150 Bhutanese participants, registration for international participants will be capped at 350 and will be available on a first-come, first-serve basis once registration opens in late October/early November...
DEADLINE: 27 September 2013 En español En français We are pleased to announce a Call for Nominations and Applications for the 2013 – 2015 ISE Darrell Posey Fellowship for Ethnoecology and Traditional Resource Rights awards. In addition to the Field Fellowship and Small Grants awards that you are all familiar with, we are pleased to announce that we will be continuing the Institutional Fellowships designed to support the enthusiasm and...
Contributed by Armando Medinaceli In the framework of the collaboration that exists between ISE and SOLAE (Sociedad Latinoamericana de Etnobiología), and as a follow up to a first joint session on ethics in 2010, a round table on “ethics, ethnobiology, and participatory research” was held at the III Latin American Society of Ethnobiology congress in La Paz, Bolivia (12 October 2012). The session was organized primarily by Sarah-lan Mathez...
Why are you asking our gyan (knowledge) and padhati (practice)?: Ethics and prior informed consent for research on traditional knowledge systems Contributed by Ranjay K. Singh1 This article presents practical guidelines for healthy and ethical collaborative research with traditional knowledge holders (TKHs) and local/traditional communities. Experience indicates that, in a majority of cases, research on indigenous knowledge or traditional...
