Scientific Coffees on Human-Forest-Relationships

Next sessions on 18th September
Kristina Wirth (Forest Research Institute Baden-Württemberg, FVA): “Creating understanding through artful connections: Transdisciplinary development of art for science communication”

To join the session, please contact
judith.kiss(at)uni-jena.de or tuulikki.halla(at)uef.fi
to get the Zoom Link

Remember also two on-site sessions at IUFRO World Congress:
Thursday 27th June T4.17. Human-Forest Relationship I – Ambiguity in “taking care of the forest”
Friday 28th June T4.33. Ways of knowing about multiverse of human-forest relationships: methodological approaches for sustainable futures for the forests

Scientific Coffee “Human-Forest-Relationships”

Let’s sit and talk in the scientific café! The “Scientific Coffee 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 two 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 “Scientific Coffee HFR” takes place two to three times per semester on Wednesday afternoons.

Guest speakers wanted! If you are interested in contributing to the “Scientific Coffee HFR”, please contact either judith.kiss(at)uni-jena.de or tuulikki.halla(at)uef.fi with info on your subject (title and short abstract) and a preferred Wednesday (13-15 CET / 14-16 EET).

The idea for a scientific coffee HFR came up during a cooperation between Finnish and German researchers in 2021. The Finnish research project Human-Forest Relationships in Societal Change and the German research group Mentalities im Flux (flumen) organized the workshop “Contested Society-Nature-Relations. Forest related Emotions, Practices & Conflicts in Times of Societal Change” in May 2021. The first “Scientific Coffee HFR” session was held in September 2021, and it celebrated its second anniversary by a blog.

The “Scientific Coffee HFR” is organized by:

Past sessions

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