Online-Workshop on March 30th 2026: Companions and Partners in a More-than-Human-World

In our initial workshop “Forest, Trees, and People” (23 May 2025), concepts of historiography beyond the human were discussed and applied to the context of Northeast India. In an interdisciplinary design, anthropological, sociological, and religious studies were intertwined within the relational turn to rethink forests, landscapes, and histories which are not merely as human domains but as co-produced worlds.

In a further step, the focus will now be on relationships, companions and siblings/kinships across species and elements.

The workshop with several research panels will provide insights into the vibrant tapestry of plant and animal interrelationships in Northeast India. Particular attention with exhaustive discussion will be paid to how animals, plants, and elements of the landscape can become companions and how their role as siblings or kin should be interpreted. Thus, engaging with these plural modes of relating, the workshop aims at giving voice to the pluriverse of more-than-human relationships, supernatural spirits and deities and the multiple ways they are shaping landscapes, cosmologies and histories.

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