Workshop: "Understanding biocultural changes in the ancestral homelands of the Tsimane' people, Beni Department, Bolivia"

IEK-CHANGES project, an ERC Starting Grant from the European Union, organises a workshop that offers a unique opportunity to exchange ideas and explore potential research collaborations in Bolivia, bringing together the IEK-CHANGES team and leading experts in sustainability, biocultural approaches, and conservation.

Workshop: “Understanding biocultural changes in the ancestral homelands of the Tsimane’ people, Beni Department, Bolivia

• Date: Wednesday 9th April 2025 – Thursday 10th April 2025
• Venue: ICTA-UAB

The purpose of the workshop is to share different perspectives and insights on the biocultural changes taking place in the Tsimane’ Territory in Bolivian Amazonia, and the different methodological approaches available to document and make sense of such changes. We will share lessons learned from previous research projects conducted with or by the Tsimane’ people, as well as other Indigenous Peoples in Bolivia, to understand the different processes through which the biocultural nexus between people and place establishes and perpetuates itself, can be disrupted and broken, or sustained and restored.

List of participants

• Álvaro Fernández-Llamazares, ICTA-UAB
• Mireia Alcántara Rodríguez, ICTA-UAB
• Jorge C. Llopis, ICTA-UAB
• Robin Bredero zur Lage, ICTA-UAB
• Clara Martinez Soares, ICTA-UAB
• Alexandra Ann Konieczny, ICTA-UAB
• Jocelyne Sze, ICTA-UAB
• Umberto Lombardo, ICTA-UAB
• Mónica Moraes R., Universidad Mayor de San Andrés, Bolivia
• Isabel Díaz-Reviriego, Leuphana University of Lüneburg, Germany
• Sandrine Gallois, Institut Botànic de Barcelona
• Júlia Orrit, Universitat de Barcelona
• Maximilien Guèze, UNESCO
• Ana Catarina Luz, UNESCO Program

The program will feature 20-minute talks and follow-up discussions. The talks will be held in English or Spanish, depending on the preference of the speaker. In the afternoons there will be several breakout sessions to do in-depth work on specific topics of interest.

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