On September 30th our the LeidenGlobal Annual Event is organised by KITLV/Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies and Cultural Anthropology & Development Sociology at Leiden University. The event will consist of a MasterClass at KITLV, followed up by a Plenary Session and drinks & bites afterwards, organised at Wereldmuseum Leiden.
Panel discussion
Should Nature be given Rights?
Date: September 30th, 2024
Time: 16:00-19:00
Location: Wereldmuseum Leiden, Steenstraat 1, Leiden
Entree: free
Should nature be given rights? Recently, the idea that nature should have legal rights has gained support worldwide. However, is the idea of giving rights to nature the best way to produce a new kind of human-nature relationship? If nature has legal personhood, could entities such as states or corporations sue rivers for flooding? And is there a risk that ecosystems with rights will displace indigenous communities, whose worldviews often lie at the basis of these rights?
This year's Annual LeidenGlobal event invites a range of experts and activists to discuss these paradoxes and challenges
Programme
16:00-16:30 Walk-in
16:30-18:00 Paneldiscussion: Should Nature be given Rights?
18:00-18:45 Bites & Drinks
Panel
The paneldiscussion is moderated by Marja Spierenburg (Professor Anthropology of Sustainability and Livelihood, Leiden University) and David Kloos (Senior Researcher at KITLV / the Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies).
Speakers:
- Shivant Jhagroe, Assistant Professor at the Institute of Public Administration, Leiden University. His current research focuses on marginalised and more-than-human actors in policy and politics (e.g. racialised/low-income groups, ecosystems, algorithms).
- Erna Lilje, Curator Indigenous Knowledge and Material Culture at the Research Centre for Material Culture (RCMC), Wereldmuseum Leiden. [TBC]
- Bernardo Ribeiro de Almeida, Ass. Professor at the Leiden University College (LUC) and at the Van Vollenhoven Institute (VVI). Researcher and practitioner in land tenure, law, lawmaking and development and is currently researching the nexus between climate change response and land rights.
- Diana Suhardiman, Director of KITLV/the Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies and Professor of Natural Resource Governance, Climate and Equity at Leiden University. Working at the intersection of water, land, climate, and environmental governance.
- Diana Vela Almeida, Ass. Professor on Political Ecology of Sustainability, Copernicus Institute, Utrecht University. She works at the interface between the fields of political ecology, ecological economics and feminist critical geography.