18.05.2026 “Ecologies, Sustainability, Climate Change: Epistemic Entanglements between Scientific and Indigenous Knowledge” – EDGES Conference, 28-30 May 2026

As part of the EDGES Project, the Department for Social Anthropology and the Study of Religions at Philipps-Universität Marburg will host the international conference “Ecologies, Sustainability, Climate Change: Epistemic Entanglements between Scientific and Indigenous Knowledge” from 28 to 30 May 2026.

The conference brings together Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars, researchers, and community representatives from Latin America and Europe to reflect on the relationships, tensions, and possible dialogues between scientific and Indigenous knowledge systems in the context of current socio-environmental crises.

The symposium explores themes such as cosmo-ecologies, climate change, sustainability, environmental governance, agroecology, territory, intercultural health, Indigenous ontologies, and alternative understandings of ecology and the environment. Through lectures, discussions, and interdisciplinary exchange, the event seeks to rethink dominant ecological perspectives and to open spaces for pluralistic and symmetrical epistemological approaches.

Participants include scholars and Indigenous researchers from institutions such as Universidad de los Andes, Universidade Federal do Amazonas, Universidad Mayor de San Andrés, University of Oxford, LMU München, University of Helsinki, and Philipps-Universität Marburg, among others.

Date: 28–30 May 2026
Location: Pilgrimstein 16, Ground Floor, Room 001, Philipps-Universität Marburg

The conference will include presentations in English, Spanish, and Portuguese and is open to all interested participants.

Further information and the preliminary conference programme can be found here.