More-Than-Human Rights: Pushing the Boundaries of Law, Science & Storytelling to Re-Animate the World
With Monica Gagliano, César Rodríguez-Garavito, Cosmo Sheldrake and Merlin Sheldrake
July 2 - 6, 2025
Explore the ideas and actions on rights of nature that are helping re-enchant the world in a stunning natural setting with César Rodríguez-Garavito, Merlin Sheldrake, Monica Gagliano, Cosmo Sheldrake and the More-Than-Human Rights collective.
What does it mean to treat animals, plants, fungi, rivers, forests, oceans, and other more-than-human beings as subjects of rights? Through convivial conversations and outdoor explorations, participants will engage with the growing community of advocates, artists, Indigenous leaders, scientists, and storytellers who are pushing the boundaries of legal and political imagination by offering a renewed story about the living world: one in which all of nature is alive; where humans and nonhumans are all animate, subjects of moral consideration, and entangled in the planetary web of life.
Daily Schedule
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Presenters
Monica Gagliano is a research scientist renowned for her pioneering work in plant communication, cognition and subjectivity. Recognized as one of Biohabitats’ 24 most Inspiring Women of Ecology, alongside Jane Goodall and Rachel Carson, her research challenges conventional boundaries of intelligence and inspires new ways of relating to the natural…
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César Rodríguez-Garavito is an Earth rights scholar, a field lawyer, and the founding director of the MOTH (More-Than-Human) Rights Program at NYU School of Law. His work has contributed to advancing new ideas and legal actions globally on issues such as climate justice, Indigenous rights, and what he refers to…
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Cosmo Sheldrake is a UK-based multi-instrumentalist, producer, composer, live improviser, and field recordist. His music ranges widely from celebratory anthems to soulful elegies to riotous party numbers, to sparse electronic production, to haunting polyphonic songs that have grown out of field recordings of birds, whales, fish, frogs, and fungi, and…
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Merlin Sheldrake, PhD, is a biologist and author of Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds, and Shape Our Futures, a New York Times and Sunday Times bestseller, and winner of the Royal Society Book Prize and the Wainwright Prize. He is the presenter of Fungi: Web…
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