Near the end of May, IASH was one of nearly 50 organisations worldwide represented at the Inaugural General Assembly of BRIDGES, an ‘open-ended and inclusive voluntary coalition of intergovernmental, governmental and non-governmental organisations, institutes, formal projects and formal networks organised under the umbrella of UNESCO’, in particular UNESCO’s Management of Social Transformations Programme (MOST). It stands out as a UNESCO initiative on the environment that is rooted in the humanities and social sciences. It was a signifier of the Institute's long-standing work on the environmental humanities for IASH to be present at the very start of this novel global initiative, and BRIDGES has the scope to provide many new partners and collaborative opportunities for further environmental humanities work at IASH.
Recordings of the Inaugural General Assembly are available below: