Ethnovisual methods for co-curating fluidscapes
Canal Fishery workshop
In September 2024, our ENGAGE4Sundarbans team organised a workshop at Kumirmari Bari with local stakeholders to investigate the possibilities of using canals as fisheries, to upscale our pond experiments. The participation of multiple local stakeholders opened the...
ENGAGE Regional Workshop in Kolkata
In September 2024, the ENGAGE4Sundarbans regional workshop aimed to join together our team members from India from IIT Kharagpur and the SJM village community, Bangladesh teams from SAJIDA Foundation and ULAB, and Switzerland UNIL, and exchange around our project with...
Relocation as a Disaster Risk Reduction Strategy in South Asia – K2A workshop
Our Senior Research Associate Mr. Md Faisal Imran participated in a Two and a Half Day Regional Workshop and Field Excursion on "Relocation as a Disaster Risk Reduction Strategy in South Asia,” was organized by the University of Colombo, Sri Lanka, FSLGA, and...
International Congress of Ethnobiology
Poster for the Congress of Ethnobiology - May 2024 In May 2024, we are participating in the 18th International Society of Ethnobiology Congress (ISE Congress 2024) in Marrakech, Marroco, with the poster presented below. The Congress is a great opportunity to meet with...
Gobeshona Session: Building resilience
"The Gobeshona Global Conference 4 - March 2024 The 4th Annual Gobeshona Global Conference took place on 1st March to 8th March 2024, virtually by International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD). The conference provided the opportunity to bring...
V2V-ENGAGE Winter field school in Kumirmari (India)
The inaugural edition of the Sundarbans Winter Field School on Transboundary, Transdisciplinarity, and Transformation through Transitions took place in the Kumirmari village of Indian Sundarbans from 19 - 26 January 2024. This year's theme was ‘Social-Ecological...
ENGAGE4Sundarbans hosts session on Agro-Ecology at the CSD conference
The Bengal River delta, with a population of 250 million, relies predominantly on agriculture. In Bangladesh, agriculture accounts for 13 percent of the country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and employs 40 percent of the total labour force. Despite efforts,...
River islands: redefining the anthropocene
The proposed two-day conference is organized by the departments of Sociology and Anthropology and Environmental Studies at Ashoka University, in collaboration with the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur, and The Australian National University. It is aimed...
Project envisioning
The discussion on ‘envisioning the project’ was centred on a few points – i) planning for local inceptions, ii) designing research methodology, and iii) research management (data sharing and data management). The Indian team targeted to ensure greater involvement of...