Framed by the interconnected themes of climate/clime studies and migration, we welcome papers addressing climate-driven migration as a relational and multispecies affair in concrete historical, ecological, scientific, social, spiritual, and affective terms. We welcome research projects addressing, but not limited to, the following topics contextualised in the Hindu Kush Himalaya, including its downstream river basins: human and nonhuman migrations, plant-human entanglements, animal geographies, the lives, deaths, and after-lives of matter, more-than-human histories, shapeshifting and migrating waters, indigenous crops, seeds, and food-systems (and changes therein), human affective and spiritual relations with physical environments, movement, mobility, and connection to places, epistemologies of climate (change), anthropogenic alterations of landscapes, and multispecies ethics and justice in climate changed environs.
Eligibility, procedure, and outcomes
The symposium takes the form of a two-year project that encompasses capacity-building, a workshop/conference, field-research, and collective publication. A key-event is a multiple-days, in-person workshop in Thimphu, Bhutan that will consist of technical sessions, methodological discussions, guest-lectures, and the streamlining and planning of publication goals.
The symposium is open to scholars working in the HKH region. Scholars from or based in the HKH region will be given first priority in terms of travel and research funding. Selection will take place through a competitive process. In the selection process, priority will be allotted to indigenous, female, early career scholars, and to applicants applying from institutions that are members of the HUC network.
Application process
Applications should consist of a motivation letter including a pitch of the proposed research and paper (500-750 words) and a CV.
Applications may be submitted to: jjpwouters@rtc.bt, with a copy to huc@icimod.org
The application deadline is extended until 08 July 2024.
Timeline
| Date | Auction | Remarks |
|---|---|---|
| 08 July 2024 | Submission of abstract, curriculum vitae, and letter of motivation | |
| 15 August 2024 | Selection announced | |
| 15 September 2024 | Virtual inception meeting | |
| 31 October 2024 | Submission of working draft | |
| 7 – 9 Novemeber 2024 | Physical meeting at the Royal Thimphu College, Bhutan | Full funding will be provided for scholars from/based in the HKH |
| December 2024 – June 2025 | Additional fieldwork | Authors build on their extant research by an attunement to multispecies migration. Fieldwork funding will be prioritised for HKH scholars. |
| September 2025 | Submission of complete draft | |
| October – November 2025 | Substantive feedback on the individual submissions | |
| February 2026 | Submission of revised and final manuscripts | |
| March 2026 | Language enhancement and submission of collective work to an international publisher |
