Planetary Health and Relational Wellbeing, a collaborative project between the National Law School of India University, the University of Westminster, the University of Sussex, and Policy and Development Advisory Group, is organising a workshop and an exhibition on 25 and 26 June at the University of Westminster in London.

The project, funded by the British Academy, explored the impact of ecological changes on the health and wellbeing of Adivasi communities in Kerala and Jharkhand through a two-year ethnographic and archival research between 2024 and 2026. At NLSIU, the project is led by Dr Sudheesh R.C.

Read more about the research on the project website.

The workshop brings together leading and early-career social scientists working on the lived experiences of compromised ecologies, the interrogation of biomedical perspectives on wellbeing, the materialities of climate responses, and the flip sides of technocratic approaches to climate-induced health crises.

See the programme schedule here.

You are invited to attend the workshop through the Zoom links provided in the schedule. There is no registration fee.

The workshop opens with the launch of Teńgo Daram (ᱛᱮᱱᱜᱳ ᱫᱚᱨᱚᱢ) — To Stand Firm — a public exhibition foregrounding Adivasi perspectives on autonomy and wellbeing on a changing planet. Curated by Dr Boro Baski, the exhibition brings together visual artworks, aural artefacts, and narrative pieces by Adivasi contributors that together articulate the epistemic and ethical foundations on which our collective scholarly work rests.

The exhibition will feature the works of Indigenous artists Rahul Buski from Kerala and Manita Kumari Oraon, Saheb Ram Tudu, Sramika Barja, Mukesh Kumar Sinku, and Biswajit Bage from Jharkhand.

The exhibition will stay on for public viewings from 24th to 27th June at the Old Gymnasium, University of Westminster. If you are in London and can drop by, please register for free here.

A tour of major venues across India and Europe will follow this premiere. The project findings will then return to the Adivasi communities in India who contributed their stories through the exhibition’s permanent installation at our partner institutions, the Museum of Santhal Culture in Bishnubati and the Ho Museum in Pandrasali.

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