The 4th Catelan Congress of Anthropology will take place in Barcelona from January 28 – 30, 2026. Paolo Macri and Albert Cordoba Baena will be convening a panel on forests titled ‘Relocating the Forest through Social Sciences: Human and More than Human Challenges in the Globalization of Nature’, which aims to probe the following set of questions through qualitative and artistic research methods in a wide variety of national contexts:

// What does it mean to do forest anthropology? What contribution can anthropology make to the study of the forest?

// Why is it necessary to promote the socio-ecological study of forests in Catalonia?

// How do the varied and often separate areas of the forest come into dialogue? What is the point of doing so?

// How do we give visibility to the forest in society? And, how do we put it in dialogue with other fields of study in anthropology and the social sciences?

Find the call for contributions here.