Second ISE Eastern European Workshop (13-16 October 2011)
At the First Eastern European Ethnobiology Workshop in Padise, Estonia we decided to develop our network and as part of that Anna Varga and Zsolt Molnar decided to organize a 2nd Eastern European Ethnobiology Workshop in Királyrét, Börzsöny, Hungary. The idea of this second workshop is to bring together ethnobiologists to share an overview of the latest and planned ethnobiological research in the region, to continue an inter-disciplinary research network and to discuss methodological questions and possibilities. We also aim to build on our knowledge and contacts to help preserve and maintain the biocultural diversity of Eastern Europe and Northern Eurasia. More details can be found on the Workshop website.
2012 ISE Congress (May 2012)
Plans for the 13th ISE Congress are proceeding smoothly. The call for full session proposals drew more than 70 submissions and a rigorous process involving 13 reviewers has resulted in a preliminary list of the accepted sessions. Note that this list is presented in two separate tables. The first provides information about sessions that are still open and looking for individual contributions to the outlined topics. The second table lists sessions which are closed to individual contributions, as all contributors have been pre-selected. The preliminary lists of sessions will be finalized over the coming days as there remains some sessions which need to be combined or further elaborated.
The final, provisional list will be posted in late August 2011, at which time the Call for Individual Contributions to the congress will be opened. Individual contributors are encouraged to review the list of open sessions and associated session abstracts, and to identify whether their contribution may fit into one (or more) of them. The Congress organizers will also facilitate making matches in this way, and will group the unmatched individual submissions into new sessions based on theme.
Additionally, we are pleased to announce that the ISE has recently opened the Call for Travel Grant Applications for Indigenous, Traditional and Local Community Members. Please contact the ISE Coordinator directly if you have any questions about these small travel grants.
We hope to see you all in Montpellier next May!
The 2nd ISE pre-Congress Workshop for Emerging Ethnobiologists
Preparations for the second pre-congress workshop for Emerging Ethnobiologists, to be held in conjunction with the 13th ISE congress in Montpellier, are now well under way. After the resounding success of the first ISE pre-Congress Workshop for Emerging Ethnobiologists, which was held in Tofino, Canada in 2010, the organizing team decided to entitle the workshop: ‘Brick by brick’ – Laying the foundations for the future of biocultural diversity research: the ISE pre-congress workshop for emerging ethnobiologists. The topics that will be addressed during the workshop are still under development, but will likely include the following main themes: (1) the inter- and trans-disciplinary nature of ethnobiology, (2) ethnobiological perspectives on advocacy and scientific integrity, (3) innovative ethnobiological research, and (4) the role of biocultural diversity researchers in finding solutions for sustainable development. We would like to invite anyone who is interested in this initiative to please get in touch with the ISE’s student representatives, Nemer Narchi and Hannes Dempewolf, or the ISE Coordinator, Natasha Duarte, and share with us any ideas or suggestions you may have with regards to possible contributions or topics to be covered during the workshop.
2014 ISE Congress
The 14th ISE Congress will be held in October 2014 in Bhutan. The proposed overarching theme of the is Linking conservation and sacred natural sites: Understanding the conservation and management knowledge of our ancestors. You can view the presentation “Glimpses of Bhutan“, which was shared at the 2nd General Assembly in Tofino. More details about the sub-themes will be available this Fall (2011)…Stay tuned!!