UNESCO-IISNC

Deadline for submission: 10 June 2026 (extended unitl 20 June 2026)
Only papers and interventions with clearly articulated ties to the conference abstract will be accepted for presentation. 
Possible themes include, but are not limited to:

•​Cultural rights and pastoralist representation 
•​Rights-based approaches to pastoral governance
•​Indigenous and pastoral knowledges 
•​Nomadic intellectual traditions and cosmologies 
•​Mobility, uncertainty, and non-equilibrium thinking
•​Food sovereignty and multispecies relations 
•​Customary mobility rights and transboundary movement 
•​Oral traditions, memory, and intergenerational transmission of knowledge 
•​Gendered dimensions of pastoral mobility and knowledge systems
•​Youth, education, and cultural continuity 
•​Land rights in the context of extractivism, conservation, and “green transition” projects 
•​Traditional ecological knowledge 
•​Spirituality, ritual, and sacred landscapes 
•​Artistic, poetic, and creative approaches to mobility and pastoral futures

The conference anticipates contributions from leading scholars and practitioners working on nomadic and pastoral worlds, including perspectives on mobility and uncertainty, relational ecologies, cultural rights, pastoral governance, mobile peoples’ways of knowing, and the politics of climate and conservation.
We welcome proposals for:
•​Individual papers 
•​Panels 
•​Roundtables 
•​Films and multimedia presentations 
•​Artistic and performance-based contributions
Deadline for the abstract and biography: 10 June 2026 (extended unitl 20 June 2026)