The MOTH Festival of Ideas is an annual academic and public space dedicated to the interdisciplinary exploration of ideas for earthly flourishing.

For more information on the most recent Festival, please see the Festival website.

The Festival is dedicated to exploring the rich and rapidly evolving field of inquiry and action pursuing efforts to bring the more-than-human world into the ambit of moral, legal, and social concern.

The Festival has two components. The morning sessions comprise a closed-door, interactive academic conference which will examine philosophical, scientific, legal, and cultural perspectives on more-than-human rights and other ecocentric paradigms. In addition to serving as an interdisciplinary space for the generation and refinement of ideas, this academic conference is intended to help consolidate the field of scholars working on topics related to MOTH.

The afternoon sessions, meanwhile, are open to the public and serve as a public platform to engage a broader audience in conversations and actions aimed at advancing the rights and well-being of humans, nonhumans, and the web of life that sustains us all. With creativity and interdisciplinarity at its heart, the Festival will include keynote talks, interviews, film screenings, book launches, poetry readings, concerts, and performances of various kinds by prominent scientists, lawyers, Indigenous leaders, artists, journalists, advocates, and scholars from around the world.