What: Lecture Event, "Regenerative designs and interspecies relations"
Who: Judith D. Schwartz and Ilse Köhler-Rollefson
Where: Online on Teams
When: February 11 from 16-17:30 Finnish time (UTC +2)
This lecture is part of the course "Organising Sustainable Change in Times of Crises" which is organized by Maria Ehrnström-Fuentes and Linda Annala-Tesfaye from Hanken School of Economics. Both Maria and Linda work for the TreesForDev Project.
Each guest speaker will give a 30-minute lecture on a topic that relates to regeneration and/or ecological restoration. There will then be a 30 minute question and answer session with the students who are in the course. There is not the possibility to directly ask questions in the session. However, you may write them in the chat and if there is time, then there is there possibility to have them answered if there is time and all student questions have been answered.
More about the Guest Speakers
Judith is an author who tells stories to explore and illuminate scientific concepts and cultural nuance. She takes a clear-eyed look at global environmental, economic, and social challenges, and finds insights and solutions in natural systems. She writes for numerous publications, including The American Prospect, The Guardian, Discover, Scientific American, and YaleE360. Her latest book, “The Reindeer Chronicles”, is a global tour of earth repair, featuring stops in Norway, Spain, Hawai’i, New Mexico, and beyond.
Ilse started her career as a veterinarian, then worked for ten years as an archaeozoologist in Jordan, studying domestication and early human-animal relationships. During this work she fell in love with camels, which led to a doctorate on camel domestication at the Veterinary College in Hannover (Germany). After some fieldwork on camel pastoralists in Sudan among the Rashaida, she travelled to India in 1990 to study the Raika camel herders and have been there ever since.
There is no cost to attend, but registration is required,
The Teams link will be sent to all registered participants by 15 on the day of the lecture (Wednesday, February 11, 2026). You will not get an immediate separate confirmation of registration, but we promise if you send the form we have received your registration. If you have any questions, please feel welcome to contact us via e-mail at