Einladung: Andreas Weber über "Die Gabe des Lebens. Eine Ökologie der Wirklichkeit", 25 März, 17:00-19:00 UhrIm Rahmen des Workshops "Rights of Nature - Nature as a Subject"

DAY 1 (25.03.2026)

05:00pm–07:00pm
Die Gabe des Lebens. Eine Ökologie der Wirklichkeit
Keynote: Andreas Weber
Kommentare: Doris Schweitzer & Christoph Seibert
Moderation: Frank Adloff

07:00pm
Fingerfood

DAY 2 (26.03.2026)

09:00am–09:10am
Opening Remarks (Frank Adloff & Stephanie Nitsch)

09:10am–10:50am 
Session I: Nature - Subject or Person? – Chair: Camilla Haake
Daniel Bonilla: Natura – Nature as a Subject in Modern Legal and Political Thought
Christoph Seibert: Ecology of the Mind – Inspirations from North American Philosophy

10:50am–11:10am
Coffee Break

11:10am–12:50pm
Session II: Nature (in) Law – Chair: Stephanie Nitsch
Tina Rametsteiner: The Holders of Rights of Nature from a Comparative Legal Perspective
Camilla Haake & Felix Aiwanger: Rights of Nature, Animals, and Humans

12:50pm–01:50pm
Lunch

01:50pm–03:30pm
Session III: From Beings to Personhood – Chair: Doris Schweitzer
Cletus Gregor Barié: Raising the voice of the voiceless beings: Reflections on the emergence, codification and decline of the rights of Mother Earth in Bolivia and Ecuador
María Ximena González-Serrano: Challenging the homogeneity of environmental personhood. Reflections from three watercourses with rights in Latin America

03:30pm–04:30pm
Coffee Break & Walk in Planten un Blomen

04:30pm–06:10pm
Session IV: Traces of History – Chair: Andreas Weber
Barbara Muraca: The Colonial Shadow of the Rights of Nature Approach
Nils Richterich: When Problems Become Law. Tracing the Historical Conditions of the Rights of Nature through the Mar Menor

06:30pm
Dinner at Amargi

DAY 3 (27.03.2026)

09:00am–10:50am
Session V: Connecting Domestic and International Law – Chair: Felix Aiwanger
Alex Iván Valle Franco: The Evolution of the Rights of Nature in Ecuador and the Inter-American System
Martin Borowsky: Holding the Door Open – Domestic Courts as Legal Hinges in International Climate Law

10:50am–11:10am
Coffee Break 

11:10am–12:50pm
Session VI: The Life of Law – Chair: Frank Adloff
Sandrine Revet: Beyond Environmental Law – The Atrato River’s Voice in the Pursuit of Integral Peace
Jenny García Ruales: Living Forest Constitutionalism – Corazonando Amazonian Jurisprudence

12:50pm–01:00pm
Closing Remarks

01:00pm 
Take-away Lunch