Forest Social

Future Forests' lecture series about the forest

The lecture series Forest Social is for students and Umeå University and SLU, and aims to inspire interdisciplinary perspectives on the forest, and explore the relationships between forests and society.

Researchers from arts, humanities and social sciences present their research. After the lectures, there will be time for questions, discussion and fika.

The lectures are always in English.

Upcoming lectures

Previous lectures

2024

7 May
Forest Social: beyond feelings and logic in the forest debate
Klara Härgestam, Doctoral students in Rhetorics at Örebro University.

21 February
Reducing Emissions Through Forest Management
Misharch Kwadwo Osei, Doctoral student in Political Science at Umeå University.

2023

25 October
Forest Social: Forest Sami and Sami forests
Gudrun Norstedt, Research fellow at Várdduo – Centre för Sámi Research, Umeå University.

15 March
Forest and Living: An Analysis of the Forestry Industry
Evans Korang Adjei, Research fellow at Centre for Regional Science at Umeå University.

2022

14 December
Forest Social: The Swedish Wildfires of 2018
Jenny Ingridsdotter, Associate professor at Department of Culture and Media Studies, Umeå University.

26 October
Global, national or local? Conflicts and synergies between policy goals in natural resource management
Irina Mancheva, Assistant professor at Department of Political Science, Umeå University.