The GHL seminar series continues on Thursday, April 30th with a Panel Discussion bringing together Matthias Kramm, Jenny García Ruales, Alejandro Mora Motta, Clément Roux and Rosario Figari Layús for a conversation on: Can forests have rights? Forests, indigenous meanings, and the sociocultural implications of the “rights of nature”.

The idea of the ‘rights of nature’ brings together notions of how humans and nature interrelate and of how to operationalise these relations within institutions and state structures. This Panel Discussion engages provocative sociopolitical and cultural elements, including what happens when forests are granted rights, ranging from posthuman Constitutionalism, legal personhood, indigenous rights and law, activism and engaged research, and environmental peace. The discussion will focus on cases in Latin America and their potential application in Germany.