FORAGE members come together in various contexts: International conferences, symposia, at the FORAGE speaker series, and during out more informal coffee chats. Below is a regularly updated list of events where we present our work and are eager to chat with you. We also regularly collaborate on edited volumes and collections. Find calls for contributions here.

//European Association of Social Anthropologists Conference, 21-24 July 2026, Poznan, Poland

European Association of Social Anthropologists Conference (EASA) will take place in Poznan (Poland), at Adam Mickiewicz University, between 21-24  July 2026. The theme of the event is: “Anthropology: Possibilities in a Polarised World”.

Call for panels is open now.

More information HERE.

// 6th International Forest Policy Meeting, 12-15 May 2026, Prague, Czech Republic

6th International Forest Policy Meeting will take place on 12–15 May 2026 at the Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague with the cooperation of the Faculty of Forestry, Technical University in Zvolen, Slovakia.

The call for papers and panels is open now.

More information HERE.

// The more than human biopolitics of forest resilience – Coffee Talk by Irene van Oorschot (Erasmus University Rotterdam)

Wednesday 24.9.2025
6 am MST / 2pm CET / 3pm EEST (Finland)

Abstract:
What is the good of a resilient forest? As imaginaries of climate-adapted, future-proof forests circulate widely in transnational strategies and visions for a carbon-neutral Europe, the concept of resilience has taken on a central role. In this presentation, van Oorschot explores how forest resilience is enacted in practice. Drawing on fieldwork among practising Dutch foresters, she explores how the emphasis on resilience comes with new ways of knowing, harnessing, and intervening in the multispecies relations that characterize forests. In so doing she explores possible relevancies of more-than-human biopolitical approaches to conservation and human-animal relationships for the study of contemporary transformations in forests across Europe.

The speaker Irene van Oorschot is an assistant professor in sociology in the Public Issues and Imaginaries team at the Erasmus School for Social and Behavioral Research (ESSB), at the Erasmus University Rotterdam.

To join the session, please contact jodie.asselin@uleth.ca or agata.konczal@wur.nl to get the Zoom Link.

// Call for Contributions to Special Feature on Forests and Care in the journal People and Nature. In an upcoming special issue, the editors of People and Nature seek to explore the potential of the concept of care to explore human-forest relations. The editors invite diverse forms of scientific engagement with caring and (un)caring practices in relation to trees, forest ecosystems and forestry, and their incorporation into culture, as well as barriers and embeddedness of care in political and institutional structures. They are seeking contributions that will evaluate human relationships with forests or with each other that are developed through shared experiences of forests, which are not well represented when forests are framed only as means to satisfy human ends or as entities of importance separate from and independent of people. In this Special Feature the editors invite contributions to explore and present examples of care that further our understanding of human-forest relationships, more-than-human relations, and societal relations with nature in the context of forests. For relevant deadlines, scope, and further information, please click here.

// 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:

• 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.