June 10 - 11, 2016 at UNT- Denton
Our purpose is to engender conversation among rural activists and scholars, and to share traditional ecological and scientific knowledge to address global stress on biodiversity and ecosystem health. The workshop will focus on rural areas of India, Mexico, and other countries in Asia, Africa, and South America, in order to address non-western ways of thinking and acting upon globalizing pressures. Read more...
Our schedule will be thematic, encouraging dialog among invited participants and local attendees. View our evolving and tentative schedule.
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Our Keynote Speaker
Dr. Anil P. Joshi
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Dr. Anil Prakash Joshi was born in a middle class family hailing from a small town, Kotdwar of Uttarakhand. He did M.Sc, Ph.D in Botany and became a reader in P.G. College. He was involved in social service since the beginning of his carrier as a teacher. His commitments for social service were so deep that he left his lucrative job for social cause. His work revolves around resource based economy. Local economy and ecology can only grow when it is local resource based... He connected local market, local wisdom with new S&T and local resource to effect the same. His work’s popular slogan ‘local need meet locally’ is pervasive now as many development agencies including Governmental and Non-Government are following... He formed a voluntary organization HESCO in 1979 and registered the same in 1983 to take his work further. Read more... |
Our Attendees
| Participant | NGO/Organization | Country |
| Appiko Movement | India | |
| SKITPO | India | |
| Scholar/Journalist/Environmentalist | India | |
| Janapada Seva Trust | India | |
| Bishnoi | India | |
| Rural Reconstruction Nepal | Nepal | |
| Peace Corps of Nigeria | Nigeria | |
| Ethiopian Women Exporters' Association | Ethiopia | |
| Centre for Sustainable Development Initiatives | Ghana | |
| SEND Ghana | Ghana | |
| Centre for Sustainable Development Initiatives | Ghana | |
| University of Tunis El Manar | Tunisia | |
| Association for India's Development | U.S. | |
| Rutgers University | U.S. | |
| Utz Che' Comunitaria | Guatemala | |
| Utz Che' Comunitaria | Guatemala | |
| Corporacion Otra Escuela | Colombia | |
| Yes to Life No to Mining | Colombia | |
| CISV International, Colombia | Colombia | |
| University of Quintana Roo in Chetumal | Mexico | |
| University of Quintana Roo | Mexico |
Our Sponsors
Our Organizers
Prof. Pankaj Jain
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Dr. Pankaj Jain is the author of Dharma and Ecology of Hindu Communities: Sustenance and Sustainability (May 2011), which won the 2012 DANAM Book Award and the 2011 Uberoi Book Award, and is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology and the Department of Philosophy & Religion. He has published articles in journals such as Religious Studies Review, Worldviews, Religion Compass, Journal of Vaishnava Studies, Union Seminary Quarterly Review, and the Journal of Visual Anthropology. He also contributes to the Huffington Post, Washington Post’s forum On Faith, Times of India’s Speaking Tree, and Patheos. Currently, he is working on a monograph on Dharma and Science and editing a volume on Asian Philosophies for the Study of Religion and Anthropology. Read more... |
Prof. George James
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George Alfred James is Professor of Philosophy and Religion at the University of North Texas. He is the author of two books: Ecology Is Permanent Economy: The Activism and Environmental Philosophy of Sunderlal Bahuguna, Interpreting Religion: The Phenomenological Approaches of Pierre Daniël Chantepie de la Saussaye, W. Brede Kristensen, and Gerardus van der Leeuw and the editor of Ethical Perspectives on Environmental Issues in India. Read more... |
Prof. Alicia Re Cruz
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Dr. Alicia Re Cruz works in the area of migration since 1986. Her professional career started working with Maya peasants in the Yucatan and the cultural transformation associated to Maya migration towards Cancun. She is the author of The Two Milpas of Chan Kom (1996) and the video producer of an ethnographic documentary, The Maya Dreams of Chan Kom (2006), which analyzes the political, socio-economic and cultural effects of Maya migration to Cancun. Read more... |
