Call for proposals: Anthropology and Conservation Virtual Conference, October 2021

We are very pleased to announce the call for panel proposals for a major interdisciplinary conference on Anthropology and Conservation. The aim of the conference is simple: it is increasingly recognised that conservation can only be properly achieved with Indigenous Peoples, in full recognition of their rights. It is therefore urgent that we develop cross-disciplinary understanding not just of conservation, but also of the way that conservation and people go together. The conference will be held virtually.

The Royal Anthropological Institute (RAI) indicates a few possible areas of interest below. However, it would not wish to restrict any potential suggestion, and proposals are welcome on any aspect of the theme, whether theoretical, methodological or ethnographic. Proposals from any of the sub-fields of anthropology (social anthropology, biological anthropology, archaeology or linguistics) are welcome, as well as any of the sub-fields of conservation. We would particularly welcome panel proposals that have any combination of anthropologists, Indigenous Peoples and conservationists as co-convenors. The organisers would also particularly welcome proposals and papers from Indigenous Peoples, as well as from international or transnational bodies, whether organised around conservation or rights, or a combination.

Amongst the possible areas which may be considered (but not confined to these) are:

• Conservation and Indigenous Knowledge
• Indigenous Peoples’ and Community Conserved Areas and Territories
• Sovereignty and inequality
• Plants, peoples and conservation
• Wildlife conservation: the influence of people on wildlife, and wildlife on people
• Private sector initiatives and Indigenous Peoples' Rights
• Human/Wildlife conflicts and resolutions
• Conservation areas and built heritage
• Scale and success: what works best?
• Impacts of deforestation on plants animals and communities
• NGOs, and the implementation of international treaties and agreements
• Impacts of foreign aid: Environmental impact assessments, and social impact assessments
• DNA, microbial restoration and conservation
• Marine conservation
• Multi-species ethnography
• The history of conservation and anthropology initiatives
• New Economic Models, climate change and conservation

Proposals for panels should be made by 12 March 2021 on the conference website here.

Fellows and members of co-organising institutions will be eligible to join the conference at the RAI Fellows rate.

Informal enquiries may be made to admin@therai.org.uk  

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• Call for Panels opens 18 January 2021 and closes on 12 March 2021
• Call for Papers opens 19 April 2021 and closes on 2 July 2021
• Registration opens 2 August 2021

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Conference Fees:

• Fellows & Members: £60
• Non-Fellows: £120
• Concessions (students, unemployed and retired persons): £30
• Delegates with low income from Low Income Countries (https://g2lm-lic.iza.org/call-phase-iv/list-of-lic/): £15