Composer x Researcher Collaborative Concert

Land: Richard Arndorfer + Bruno Ubiali and Wezddy Del Toro Orozco

Water: Jared Tubbs + Jon Calabria 

Fire: Sydney Passmore + Tommy Cabe, Eileen Joseph, and Aharna Sarkar

Entanglement: Logan Wynns and Akanksha

Murmurations Reimagined: envisioned by Liz Osbourn and performed by the Athens Dance Collective

The Center for Integrative Conservation Research hosts the 2026 Integrative Conservation Conference, a place for collective learning and collaboration, bringing students, researchers, and practitioners together to share their work with each other. With this year's theme of "Centering Community," the hope is to foster spaces where people can engage with the varied human, more-than-human, and beyond-human communities — communities of people, plants, wildlife, fungi, microbes, and beyond. We also hope to foster dialogue across natural and social sciences, humanities, and the arts, highlighting interdisciplinary, transdisciplinary, and antidisciplinary approaches to conservation and environmental research. 

2026 sponsors and collaborators: the Owens Institute for Behavioral Research, the UGA Arts Collaborative, Graduate School, Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources, Odum School of Ecology, Department of Anthropology, and the Department of Geography, the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, and the ICON Student Organization.