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Yogi Hendlin

  • Environmental Justice
  • Systems Theory
  • Sustainability and System Design
  • (Bio)Semiotics

Dr. Yogi Hale Hendlin is an environmental philosopher and public health scientist. Hendlin is assistant professor at the Erasmus School of Philosophy, and core faculy of the Dynamics of Inclusive Prosperity Initiative at Erasmus University Rotterdam, as well as a member of The Center to End Corporate Harm at the University of California, San Francisco. Hendlin’s research has been published in journals such as Annals of Internal Medicine, BMJ, MMWR, American Journal of Public Health, Environmental Ethics, Ambio, and Environmental Philosophy. The international press regularly features Hendlin’s public health research.

Carolina Sánchez De Jaegher

  • Indigenous environmental thinking and land governance
  • Philosophies of the Antarctica and International law
  • Philosophies of sustainability
  • Ecocide conceptualizations
  • Biosemiotics and culture

A border thinker, Carolina works at the junction of justice, environmental philosophy and ethics within the legal and political discourse and visual arts. Former assistant professor, research associate at the UCLouvain Belgium, department of Law philosophy, researcher at the Ecocide project/Pathways for sustainability Utrecht University, member of the BIOGOV (Institutional Analysis of Collective Arrangements for sustainability and Open Platform on Ecological and Social Transition), and fellowship at Earth Law Center. Carolina is also part of the permanent board of the EMPI Interdisciplinary network for Indigenous Studies in Europe.

Daniel Kamp

  • Ecological Economics
  • Biosemiotics
  • Japanese Aesthetics

Ecology for Daniel means having meaningful differences, different practices, perspectives, and peoples, working symbiotically to create a greater whole than the sum of their parts. Daniel likes spending time in philosophy more as a practice and an art form of concepts and their histories, de-mythifying myths and mythifying science as a framework of embedding rationality back with non-propositional sense-making. He sees this as a condition to better take care of ourselves, each other and the planet. One of his recurring interests is therefore what it means to reify reasoning so that it can be outsourced to representations of it. He is currently writing on this theme through the topic of the metaphysics of money. Daniel studied at Kyoto University, Erasmus University Rotterdam, and is currently based in Budapest. 

Constantijn Kusters

  • Biosemiotic understanding of normativity, business ethics, systems theory, hermeneutics, temporality

A PhD candidate at Erasmus University Rotterdam and Senior Data & Risk consultant in Deloitte’s conduct & risk team. His interests lie in the intersection between a meta-ethical understanding of normativity as emergent from biological systems and business ethics. As such he tends to write about a naturalization of ethics and subjectivity from the perspective of biosemiotics, hermeneutics, and temporality.

Fernando Palazzo

A Juris Doctor with more than ten years of experience working at the Court of Justice of Paraná (Brazil) as a chief of staff and legal advisor in cases of individual, collective, and environmental liability. I am interested in legal empirical research, especially regarding environmental issues such as global value chains (global asymmetries between the global north and the global south), European Green Deal, CSDDD, climate change, environmental law, and climate justice. 
In Brazil, Ferando worked directly on numerous cases of environmental crimes and recently completed a Masters in Advanced Research in Criminology at Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam and Ghent University with the aim of enhancing my knowledge of environmental issues on an interdisciplinary basis. In addition to publishing scientific articles in Brazil and abroad, he has co-authored a book entitled ‘Historical Trials of Environmental Law in Brazil’. He is also a professor at Pontíficia Universidade Católica do Paraná in the Law Department.

Brian Khumalo

A researcher specializing in human ecology, cognitive anthropology, and biosemiotics. He holds a BA and M.Soc.Sci in Anthropology from Rhodes University in South Africa and was an Erasmus+ scholar at the Université de Lille in France, where he studied recreational fisheries management. Currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Anthropology at the University of Florida, his research spans various regions, including Tanzania, Seychelles, Solomon Islands, and South Africa. His work focuses on topics such as fishing communities, historical ecology, and primate cognition. His Ph.D. project explores food perception and choices among Western Solomon Islanders and their socio-ecological implications.

Arwen Vonck

A Master’s student of Philosophy at Erasmus University Rotterdam with a special interest in questions regarding social justice and morality. Drawing from a background of philosophy, international relations and human rights law, she approaches ethical dilemmas and societal issues from a wide-ranged point of view, seeking to offer nuanced insights into contemporary issues and advocate for positive social change.

 

Levi van den Bogaard

 

A historian and philosopher with a BA and MA in History from Utrecht University, with a strong
focus on the intersection of history and philosophy. Currently, I am a Graduate Student in Philosophy
at EUR. My work is concerned with the question of how to sustainably transform and re-enchant our
relation with ourselves and with the nonhuman, which I argue is a critical element in tackling both
the ecological crisis and the meaning crisis. My approach integrates ancient, eastern, indigenous, and
continental philosophy, 5EA cognitive science, biosemiotics, complex systems theory, and art. In my
government role as strategic advisor, I navigate the complexities of digitization and datafication, and
advocate setting clear constraints through robust data ethics, AI governance, and distributed
decision-making.

Advisory Board

Daan Bendel

Netherlands

As an entrepreneur and lecturer, Daan Bendel functions as a flexible team member supporting organizational digital, cultural, and ecological transformation. His contribution integrates expertise in emerging technologies, organizational development, and nature-informed design – an orientation that aligns with the Feral Ecologies Lab’s focus on adaptive systems, multispecies considerations, and regenerative socio-technical practices.

Nora Bateson

Sweden

 Nora Bateson is an award-winning filmmaker, writer, educator and systems thinker. She serves as President of the Stockholm-based International Bateson Institute, a research organisation devoted to trans-contextual studies of living systems. Drawing on the intellectual legacy of her father Gregory Bateson and grandfather William Bateson, Bateson’s work explores how “warm data” – information about relationships and context rather than isolated metrics – can help us better perceive and interact with the complexity of living systems. Author of Combining and Small Arcs of Larger Circles, Bateson has taught countless people through her Warm Data Labs. 

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