The Political Ecology Research Centre at Massey University and the Centre for Space, Place & Society at Wageningen University are hosting Conviviality, an open access, virtual conference, in the week of 4-9 October 2021.

Convened by Serena Stein and Sita Venkateswar, this conference draws together many early-career researchers as well as established scholars, including many from the Global South, to examine intersections of agriculture and the practices, values, and limits of diverse relations among humans, plants, animals, and soil.

During the week of October 4-9, 2021 new panels will be posted to the conference homepage. Discussion between presenters and participants will take place in a comments section on that page. There are no registration or costs associated with the conference, and the presentations and discussions will stay online as a resource.

Conference themes include:

Ideologies, Tools, and Advocacy
Conservation Politics
Cultivation Beyond Productivism
Extraction, Labour, Ecologies
Botanical Relations
Multispecies Relations
Indigeniety and Decolonization
Convivial Placemaking - A digital roundtable discussion led by Dr. Vitalija Povilaityte-Petri
Conviviality through Peatlands - a collective brainstorm session hosted by RE-PEAT
The Urban Convivial