Forest Pasts and Futures

Context
The Lausanne Advanced Seminar in Political Ecology is an annual event on a specific theme, with the purpose of deepening participants' understanding of political ecological approaches to research. The event is co-sponsored with the doctoral school IGS North-South (collaboration UNIL, UniBe, UniBasel, UniZH). Previous themes have included tropical forests, political agronomy, feminist urban political ecology, and decolonizing geography.

For 2023, the theme is "Forests: pasts and futures". One day will be held in conjunction with the IDANE Wald+ meeting (an annual meeting of Swiss-based international forestry specialists in government agencies - DDC, OFEV/BAFU, Seco - and researchers from universities and more). The second day will be the doctoral workshop proper.

Keynote speaker
Dr. Melanie Pichler – Keynote speaker
University of Natural Resources and Life Science, Vienna (BOKU)

General objectives
Deepen Political Ecology; highlight the value of the approach for deciphering environment/development conflicts and helping to change them.

Programme [PDF]

Registration and information
If you have any questions or wish to register for participation (registration is free but mandatory), please contact thithi.han@unil.ch