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Hello everyone,
We welcome you to submit an abstract for the Transforming Approaches to Forests and
Forestry through Traditional and Local Knowledges Conference, happening at the University
of British Columbia in August 2019!
We welcome conventional and non-conventional presentation styles and exhibits to this
event. Please feel free share this information widely within your networks to both
academic and community presenters. Abstracts are due March 15, 2019.
Email us TEK.forests@ubc.ca<mailto:TEK.forests@ubc.ca> with any questions or
suggestions.
Please see the attached Call for Papers, and more information on our website:
http://tek.forestry.ubc.ca/
Thank you for your time and attention,
Janette Bulkan
Assistant Professor, Department of Forest Resources Management
Faculty of Forestry, UBC
2021-2424 Main Mall, Vancouver, BC Canada. V6T 1Z4
Email: Janette.bulkan@ubc.ca<mailto:Janette.bulkan@ubc.ca>
Tel: +1 604 822 8089
Skype name: janettebulkan
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Dear Friends and Colleagues,
We are pleased to share with you details of an upcoming IUFRO conference on Traditional
Ecological Knowledge (TEK), ‘Transforming approaches to forests and forestry through
Traditional and Local Knowledges: Reciprocity and relationship-building in forest
ecosystems’ to be held on unceded xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) Territory, at the University of
British Columbia’s Faculty of Forestry 21-23 August 2019.
Principled, reciprocal relationships between researchers and Indigenous Peoples and Local
Communities (IPLCs) are at the heart of this conference. Through this event, we welcome
knowledge holders of forestry and the environment to share their experiences in building
equitable relationships within customary territories. We hope to provide a point of
convergence for Indigenous, Local and Western Knowledges, to challenge power dynamics
between different ways of knowing, and to model the equitable co-production and sharing of
knowledge. Accordingly, the Organizing Committee supports joint presentations, joint
papers, and joint projects by and for researchers and IPLCs.
The conference will include an initial day of relationship building among all participants
and talks, a panel discussion and workshop events on the following two days. Our objective
is to host a different kind of conference that positions the needs, perspectives, and
authority of IPLCs at the centre of social-ecological research.
Individual submissions (abstracts)
We invite submission of individual abstracts for poster and oral presentations, artistic
performances and exhibitions, songs, workshops, roundtable and panel discussions, and
storytelling of up to 300 words addressing one of the following conference themes:
1. Upholding and disseminating forest research practices that comply with Indigenous
laws and protocols
2. Weaving Indigenous, Local and Scientific Knowledges and practices together in
cross-scale/cross-border/collaborative/participatory forest planning
3. Emerging strategies and technologies for protecting data sovereignty
4. Relational ways of knowing: IPLC cosmologies, more-than-human agency, Rights to
Nature
5. Arts-based and IPLC research methods / outputs
6. TEK and food sovereignty
Abstracts should include a description of how principled, reciprocal relationships between
researchers and Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities (IPLCs) are being, or have been,
upheld as part of the research process.
The deadline for abstracts has now been EXTENDED to 15 March 2019. Accepted abstracts will
be notified by 15 April 2019. See
http://tek.forestry.ubc.ca<http://tek.forestry.ubc.ca/> for more information.