Dear ISE members, In order to share the experiences of the 2016 Congress with members who were not able to attend, we have put together a small online-only newsletter. It includes an announcement from the incoming ISE President, Verna Miller, on the current state of the Society; a report from the Congress organizers; a submission of reflections from Congress attendees and an announcement of the 2018 Congress. A Letter from the President Current...
Summary of the Current State of the ISE Written by Pepeyla (Verna) Miller Recently the ISE Board had a very informative discussion with Glenn Shepard about the upcoming 2018 Congress venue in Belem Brazil. The Congress will take place August 6-11, 2018. The Congress organizers are in negotiations with numerous funding agencies and determining where the event will take place. It seems funding our Congresses continues to be a worthy challenge that...
Belém +30: Reflecting on the Declaration of Belém and the field of ethnobiology across three decades Written by Glenn Shepard and Flávio Ferreira Silva 2018 represents the 30th anniversary of the first International Congress of Ethnobiology which was held in 1988 at the Goeldi Museum in Belém. To celebrate this important anniversary, the Goeldi Museum and the Federal University of Pará (UFPA) are proposing to host the 16th International...
The ISE’s 4th Pre-Congress Workshop for Emerging Ethnobiologists Written by Robin Wild and Karly Burch It was our pleasure to serve as the ISE’s student representatives for two years and to plan the ISE’s 4th Pre-Congress Student Workshop for Emerging Ethnobiologists. To briefly summarize our activities over the past two years, we spent our first six months as student representatives brainstorming a plan for the Emerging Ethnobiologists...
Reflection about the ISE Congress 2016 Written by Yuba Raj Subedi ISE provides me opportunity to participate in the ISE congress at Kampala, where I had opportunity to share cultural practices of Chepang Indigenous communities on traditional medicine and how it became vulnerable due to migration and other factors. I would like to thanks ISE for giving me this opportunity to meet the people and learn different aspects of people’s cultural...
