Indigenous Cosmographies as Agents of Change
Deadline: May 15 – send abstracts to J.gamlin@ucl.ac.uk
A two-day hybrid symposium – 30 June & 1 July 2025, University College London (UCL)
See detailed call for submissions in English at bit.ly/4jUAAjZ
We invite you to join us in a symposium that aims to generate ideas and proposals for a Theory of Change co-produced with Indigenous and non-Indigenous scientists and scholars, with the goal of not only centering Indigenous knowledge in environmental discourse and policy but contributing to structural shifts in people-nature relations. We welcome papers on diverse aspects of the climate crisis and nexus issues as these relate to Indigenous ecologies or cosmographies. We particularly encourage submissions that address the interaction of Indigenous knowledge and action and climate science and discussion of the many ways that Indigenous cosmographies challenge dominant views of people-nature relations. Work that speaks to the people-nature nexus could be in the form of environmental or ecological research or from social science or arts and humanities disciplines, including history, anthropology, geography, and health and public policy.
Jointly organised at University College London (UCL) by UCL East People and Nature Lab, the UCL Institute for Global Health and Institute for Advanced Studies, in collaboration with Technopolitics and Democracy in the Anthropocene Research Group at the Federal University of Sao Paulo (Unifesp), the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences (FCPyS) of Mexico’s National University (UNAM), and the Department of Sociology, University of Granada.