2024 LeidenGlobal Annual Event
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The LeidenGlobal Annual Event will take place again on September 30: This time it is about the rights of nature as heritage.
For this event, a MasterClass for PhD candidates and (Research) MA students will first be organized, followed by a panel discussion. Both events are organized by the Royal Institute for Language, Agriculture and Ethnology (KITLV) and the Institute of Cultural Anthropology of the Leiden Faculty of Social Sciences (CADS).
De MasterClass:
Defending Nature’s Rights: Paradoxes and Challenges
Over the past 15 years, the global rights-of-nature movement has been gaining momentum. Key milestones include Ecuador's 2008 constitutional amendment to recognize the rights of nature and the 2017 ruling by India's Uttarakhand High Court recognizing the Ganga and Yamuna rivers as legal persons. These decisions have sparked both progress and controversy, posing new legal and political challenges.
In this MasterClass, particip…
For this event, a MasterClass for PhD candidates and (Research) MA students will first be organized, followed by a panel discussion. Both events are organized by the Royal Institute for Language, Agriculture and Ethnology (KITLV) and the Institute of Cultural Anthropology of the Leiden Faculty of Social Sciences (CADS).
De MasterClass:
Defending Nature’s Rights: Paradoxes and Challenges
Over the past 15 years, the global rights-of-nature movement has been gaining momentum. Key milestones include Ecuador's 2008 constitutional amendment to recognize the rights of nature and the 2017 ruling by India's Uttarakhand High Court recognizing the Ganga and Yamuna rivers as legal persons. These decisions have sparked both progress and controversy, posing new legal and political challenges.
In this MasterClass, participants will delve into these issues with Dr. Shivant Jhagroe (Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs, Leiden University), an expert on the rights of water bodies in the Netherlands, and Dr. Diana Vela Almeida (Copernicus Institute, Utrecht University), a scholar and activist focused on indigenous land rights in Latin America.
De Paneldiscussie:
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.
