This section highlights key moments from the ECO-Syria Project, including workshops, conferences, and public presentations. Here, we document our engagements, collaborations, and contributions to ongoing conversations around the environment–conflict nexus in North and East Syria.
- 5-6 June 2025: Dr. Pinar Dinc and Dr. Lina Eklund presented the ECO-Syria poster at the 1st Annual Meeting of the United Nations University Hubs at Hamburg University of Technology, Hamburg
- 24–25 May 2025: Dr. Pinar Dinc presented Farming, Water, and Turmoil: Colonial Control and Water Politics in North and East Syria at the Colonial Control of Water and Transboundary Water Politics in Kurdistan Workshop at the Department of Anthropology and Cultural Studies, Bremen University, Bremen
- 13–14 May 2025: Dr. Pinar Dinc presented Initial Insights from the ECO-Syria Project and Purnendu Sardar presented Factors Enabling Rapid Agricultural Expansion in Syria (2019) at the International Workshop on Water Sustainability in the Middle East, Lund University
- 28 March 2025: Dr. Pinar Dinc gave an invited talk. The history of, and the situation in, the Kurdish-controlled part of Syria at the Digital Conference: Theme Day on Syria organised by Lansstyrelsen Vastra Götaland
- 26 March 2025: Dr. Pinar Dinc contributed as a speaker at the closed Syria Roundtable Discussion at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs, Stockholm
- 3–4 December 2024: Dr. Pinar Dinc presented Roots of Destruction: Exploring the Genocide-Ecocide Nexus through the Destruction of Olive Trees in Palestine and Afrin at the Rivers, Sacred Values, and Environmental Attitudes Workshop, Lund University
- 28–29 November 2024: Dr. Pinar Dinc presented Environmental Peace Amidst Conflict? The Kurdish Experience in Four Parts of Kurdistan at the PRIS Conference Peace and Conflict Research in Challenging Times, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg
- 11 November 2024 : Dr. Lina Eklund, Dr. Pinar Dinc, and Prof. Mo Hamza joined the United Nations University Hub (UNU Hub) Lund University
- 5 November 2024: Dr. Lina Eklund presented Is Rojava Greening? Vegetation Trends in the Eco-Feminist De Facto Autonomous Region of North and East Syria at the 5th Open Science Meeting: Pathways to Sustainable and Just Land Systems, Global Land Program, Oaxaca, Mexico
Lina at the 5th Open Science Meeting, 5 November 2024
- 23 August 2024: The ECO-Syria team contributed to two panels at the SWEMENA Conference
- 10–13 June 2024: Dr. Pinar Dinc presented Roots of Destruction: Exploring the Genocide-Ecocide Nexus through the Destruction of Olive Trees in Palestine and Afrin at the POLLEN Conference
- 27 April 2024: Dr. Pinar Dinc and Dr. Lina Eklund presented Kurdistan’s Landscape: Unravelling Tree Cover Loss Amidst Fire, Conflict, and Beyond at Rojava Ecology Conference, North and East Syria
- 22 February 2024: CMES Public Panel: Conflict and Environment in Kurdistan at the Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies, Lund University
- 20–21 February 2024: Eco-Syria Project Inception Workshop: Just and Equitable Ecological Models in Contested and Conflict Environments at the Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies, Lund University
- 10 February 2024: Dr. Pinar Dinc presented Ecological Destruction in Kurdistan at the Turkey and the New Kurdish Reality: Challenges, Options, and Solutions Conference, Stockholm Kurdish Institute
- 7 November 2023: ECO-Syria Poster Presentation at the Knowledge for Sustainable Development Conference, Lund University
- 31 August 2023: ECO-Syria Project Kick-Off seminar at the Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies, Lund University
