2010 ISE Student/Recent Graduate Prize
Researchers in Sabah, MalaysiaISE Student/Recent Graduate Prize to be awarded during the 2010 ISE Congress in Tofino, British Columbia, Canada
Win recognition for your work as a student of ethnobiology! The ISE will award two prizes to student presenters at the Congress: (1) for a paper presentation (either oral or as a poster) and (2) for an alternative format contribution (video, non-academic poster, poetry, performance, other). To be eligible for consideration, you must be either a current student or have completed your studies within one year of the congress (i.e., no earlier than May 2009). Co-authored papers by students or recent graduates, as noted above, are accepted. Co-authorship with non-students is allowed only if the student or recent graduate is the major author and presenter.
Interested candidates should submit the following via email, fax, or mail to the ISE Coordinator, and indicate the prize for which their contribution should be considered:
- a one-page cover letter, with title of the contribution, names, affiliations, address and emails,
- the abstract submitted for the Congress, and
- a two page (maximum) description of the contribution with relevant subsections as appropriate, e.g., Introduction/Background – Purpose – (Methodology - Results for paper presentations) - Discussion - Conclusions. For alternative format contributions please include video, audio, or other material.
Deadline for submissions is April 15, 2010.
Written materials should be spaced one and a half lines, 12-point type with one inch margins. Video or audio submissions should be 15 minutes or less in length. Please contact the ISE Coordinator at isecoordinator@gmail.com if you have any questions.
Small Grant Opportunity for Native Peoples of Canada and the United Sates
Honor the Earth is currently accepting applications from Native organizations for their Spring 2010 Building Resilience in Indigenous Communities Grant. The grant supports grassroots, community-based organizations directed and controlled by Native people in their efforts to increase Indigenous communities’ capacity to prevent and adapt to climate change in ways that preserve and restore Indigenous cultures.
Funding for the Building Resilience in Indigenous Communities Initiative will focus on two goals:
1. To support and forward the development of culturally-based, Indigenous solutions to climate change based on re-localizing food and energy economies;
2. To foster restoration of traditional knowledge as a key adaptation and mitigation strategy to ensure a safe and healthy future for our children and the next seven generations.
Grants range from US$1000 to $5000, and applications are due 30 March 2010.
If you would like to learn more about the Honor The Earth Building Resilience Grant, please click here.
United Nations University Institute of Advanced Studies PhD and Postdoctoral Fellowships
UNU-IAS PhD and Postdoctoral Fellowships
Every year UNU-IAS and UNU-ISP offer PhD and Postdoctoral Fellowships to provide young scholars and policy-makers, especially from the developing world, with a multi-disciplinarily context within which to pursue advanced research and training that is of professional interest to the successful applicant and of direct relevance to the research agenda of their selected UNU-IAS or UNU-ISP programme.
The fellowship programme provides the successful applicant with a unique opportunity to:
• develop and advance their research under the supervision of a UNU-IAS or UNU-ISP faculty member and contribute to the overall research agenda of the Institute,
• widen their research interests and professional networks by working in the international and multi-disciplinary context of the UNU-IAS and UNU-ISP, and with its wider network of Japanese universities and research institutes, as well as international collaborators,
• become exposed to the workings of the international and multilateral policy
process and the broader UN system, and
• link with other UNU-IAS and UNU-ISP PhD and Postdoctoral Fellows.
Application deadline is 28 February 2010. To learn more or to download application materials, please click here.
ISE Workshop Presenters Wanted
In preparation for the 11th Congress of the International Society for Ethnopharmacology, in Albacete, Spain, 20-25 September 2010, Ina Vandebroek is organizing a workshop entitled “Use of ethnobotanical results in outreach and education: from community workshops to curriculum development and cultural sensitivity training". If you feel that you have experience with this topic and would like to be a presenter at the workshop, please send a title and 250 word abstract to ivandebroek@nybg.org by February 26 2010. No funding is available for travel or accommodation.
Preguntas del foro académico - indígena ICE 2008 Cusco
XI ISE Congress, Cusco, Peru Como preparación para el XII Congreso de la Sociedad Internacional de Etnobiología, que se llevará a cabo en Tofino, Canadá, es necesario reflejar las preguntas surgidas y las acciones tomadas en el XI Congreso de la SIE realizado en Cuzco, Perú en 2008.
La Declaración del Foro Indígena establece "... nos urge que los miembros de la Sociedad Internacional de Etnobiología continúen proveyendo el espacio del Foro Indígena que permite enriquecer los sistemas y métodos de Conocimiento Tradicional, y mejorar el diálogo para articular la investigación sobre alternativas de alimento para el ser humano y problemas ambientales." Para cumplir ese objetivo el Foro ha presentado las siguientes preguntas, buscando las respuestas de los científicos y académicos.
Por favor responda las preguntas de abajo. Nos gustaría tener ya las respuestas para el próximo Congreso Internacional de Etnobiología en 2010 en Tofino, Canadá.
Usted puede además copiar las preguntas y traer las respuestas al próximo congreso al que asista. Por favor compártalas en los foros más apropiados. La lista entera puede ser hallada aquí:
Response Form - Questions raised by the Indigenous Forum ICE 2008 Cusco
XI ISE Congress, Cusco, PeruIn preparation for the 12th International Society of Ethnobiology Congress, to be held in Tofino, Canada, it is necessary to reflect on the actions taken and questions raised at the 11th ISE Congress held in Cusco, Peru in 2008.
The Indigenous Forum Declaration states "... we urge the members of the International Society of Ethnobiology to continue providing the Indigenous Forum with the space that allows the enrichment of traditional knowledge systems and methods, and to improve the dialogue for the joint search for alternatives to the food and environmental problems of humanity." To that aim the Forum has raised the following questions, in search of responses from scientists and academics.
Please answer the questions below. We would like to take the answers to the next International Congress of Ethnobiology 2010 in Tofino, Canada.
You can also copy the questions and take them to the next congress to assist to. Please share them in the most appropriate forums. The entire list of questions can be found here.
Para la forma en español, haga clic por favor aquí.
Methods in Ethnoecology Short Course
Methods in Ethnoecology taught by John Richard Stepp and Justin M. Nolan
26-30 July 2010 - Beaufort, North Carolina
Methods in Ethnoecology will acquaint participants with the approaches, methods and analyses used by ethnoecologists who are researching various contemporary issues in biocultural diversity. The course will draw on the instructors' field research in Southeast Asia, Native North America and Mesoamerica, and on case studies of researchers who are active in other parts of the world.
We will explore a variety of approaches that guide data collection including consensus modeling, cultural domain analysis, and social network analysis. We will experiment with some techniques for collecting ethnobiological data in the field, including freelisting, paired comparisons, rankings, pile sorting, specimen identification and triad tests. We will also review methods that take an ecological perspective, such as landscape valuation, plots, transects, and diversity indices. We will address the analysis of qualitative and quantitative data using statistical software packages appropriate for ethnoecology.
Who should apply: Anthropologists who have completed the Ph.D. and are working in the U.S. are eligible to apply. (Non-U.S. citizens may apply if they are working in the United States.) U.S. citizens working abroad are also eligible.
Deadline: 15 February 2010
Room, board and instructional materials are funded through a grant from The National Science Foundation. Participants are responsible for their transportations costs to the course.
For more information on the course, please click here.
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