Are you working on Indigenous knowledge, climate change, environmental justice, or community-based research? We invite MA/ PGR students, early-career researchers, practitioners, artists, activists, and Indigenous knowledge holders to submit an abstract for a one-day hybrid symposium hosted by the Indigenous Studies Discussion Group at the University of Cambridge. 

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Inspired by COP30 themes, this symposium explores how Indigenous knowledge systems across land and ocean worlds inform climate research and practice.

 

This is an opportunity to:

🌱 Share research, community projects, or creative practices

🌱 Engage in dialogue across academia, practice, and lived experience

🌱 Amplify Indigenous voices in climate futures debates 

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📄 Abstracts: 150–250 words

🎤 Presentations: 15–20 minutes

🕘 Event date: 14th May 2026

📍 Mode: Hybrid (with an in-person venue in Cambridge) 

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Suggested themes include:

• Indigenous climate adaptation and resilience

• Decolonising Indigenous knowledge/ colonialism and their ongoing environmental impacts for Indigenous peoples

• Land, water, coastal and ocean governance

• Climate justice and Indigenous rights

• Indigenous governance and leadership

• Community-based projects, youth activism

• Storytelling, oral histories, art and cultural practices as climate knowledge 

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📩 Submission details and deadline: Email isdgcambridge@gmail.com by 20th March 2026