Coffee Talks Human-Forest-Relationships

Coffee Talks Human-Forest-Relationships

Let’s sit and talk in the scientific café! The “Coffee Talks HFR” sessions give room for open and relaxed discussions on current research subjects related to human and society relations to forests. It warmly welcomes all interested in forest-related research to join online sessions.

Each session lasts approximately 1,5 hours. It starts with a 30-minutes presentation of a guest speaker. After the presentation, with coffee or tea and cookies at hand, participants have plenty of room for an open discussion and exchange.

The “Coffee Talks HFR” takes place three to four times per term on Wednesday at 6am MST / 2pm CET / 5pm EET.

Guest speakers wanted! If you are interested in contributing to the “Coffee Talks HFR”, please contact either jana.holz(at)uni-jena.de, jodie.asselin(at)uleth.ca or tuulikki.halla(at)uef.fi with info on your subject (title and short abstract) and a preferred date.

The interdisciplinary and international scientific “Coffee Talk HFR” has a long tradition. In 2021, a cooperation between the Finnish research project Human-Forest Relationships in Societal Change and the German research group Mentalities im Flux (flumen) launched and hosted the “Scientific Coffee Sessions HFR”. In 2024, the network broadened and the event got a new name: “Coffee Talks HFR”. 

The “Scientific Coffee HFR” is organized by:

• Human-Forest Relationship Research Club of the Finnish Society of Forest Science
• The research group “Mentalities in Flux” (flumen) Research Project
• Forest Anthropology Working Group on Europe and Beyond (FORAGE) FORAGE – WUR
• Soz-Wald, a newly-established German speaking network of sociological research on forest relations. Info on the network’s first event; join our Email-list

Past sessions

13.11.2024
Agata Konczal (Wageningen University) & Jodie Asselin (University of Lethbridge): Exploring the Green Frontier: Patterns of Inequality in Europe’s Recent Forest Initiatives

9.10.2024
Kristina Wirth (Forest Research Institute Baden-Württemberg, FVA): Creating understanding through artful connections

27.-28.6.2024
Two on-site sessions at the IUFRO 2024 World Congress:
T4.17. Human-Forest Relationship I – Ambiguity in “taking care of the forest”
T4.33. Ways of knowing about multiverse of human-forest relationships: methodological approaches for sustainable futures for the forests

10.4.2024
Jana Holz (University of Jena) & Tuulikki Halla (University of Eastern Finland): Coffee Salon Human-Forest-Relationships (HFR), Interactive session at IFPM5 (on site)

7.2.2024
Ulla Taipale (Institute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research (INAR), University of Helsinki, Finland): Periferia – A Permanent Art Exhibition in the Midst of the Boreal Forest. The Connection of the Arts to the Landscape and the Research of the University Forest Station

22.11.2023
Mónica Hernández Morcillo (Eberswald University, Germany): A Regenerative Approach to Forestry: Insights from the Indigenous Culture Kogi

4.10.2023
Anna Ott (SYKE, Finnish Environment Institute): Sámi reindeer herders’ fight for preserving and renewing – An analysis of the conflict over forest in the Sámi homeland

19.4.2023
Maie Kiisel (University of Tartu, Estonia): The resonance of macro challenges in forestry debate of Estonia (multi-level perspective approach)

15.2.2023
Peeter Vihma (Estonian University of Life Sciences): Origins, peace negotiations and failures in Estonian “Forest War”

23.11.2022
Jenni Simkin (Natural Resource Institute Finland): Should you visit a managed or natural forest for the best of your well-being?

14.9.2022
Ronja Mikoleit (Institute for Environmental Social Sciences and Geography, University of Freiburg): Climate heroes in the forest – Heroic (self-)representations in forestry and their consequences

1.6.2022
Maija Halonen (University of Eastern Finland): Socio-economic forest relations in Northern peripheries

27.4.2022
“People and forests – Developing the concepts and methodologies for researching
human-forest-relationship and social relationships with nature” (panel with four presentations), special event as part of the 4th International Forest Policy Meeting

6.4.2022
Dominik Menton-Enderlin (Forest Research Institute Baden-Württemberg, FVA): “Basically this is all my forest” – qualitative and quantitative research results on psychological ownership among forest visitors in Germany

12.1.2022
Tuomo Takala (University of Eastern Finland): Critical discourse analysis as a method and a theory

17.11.2021
Lukas Fehr (Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen): Narratives and interpretations of forests in the forestry and timber sector between recreation and wood production

8.9.2021
Anne Matilainen (University of Helsinki): Feelings of psychological ownership towards forests