HIAS Summer School 2025: Call for ApplicationsEating together. Food, Ecology, and ConvivialityAn interdisciplinary menu, put together by Frédéric Vandenberghe and Frank Adloff.

29 April 2025

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Food is essential. It is at the core of human life and involves the whole of society and all social institutions. In this summer school, we’ll take a closer, interdisciplinary look at the table. What is on the table? What happens around the table? Where does the food come from? Who’s invited to the banquet? And who’s not? During a whole week, we’ll meet in Hamburg to explore the ethics, ecologies, and politics of food and food systems, conviviality and commensality.  Wary of disciplinary boundaries, we’ll follow the food through space and time to study its philosophical, anthropological, ethical, sociological, (agro-)ecological, geographical, historical, linguistic, (inter-)cultural, aesthetic and political aspects.

This summer school (Hamburg, 7-12 July 2025, at HIAS) is addressed to researchers at the beginning of their career (PhD students and postdoctoral researchers) who are currently conducting a research project that revolves around food, ecology, and conviviality. Application is possible until 23 May. Please see here for details.

Organized by: Frédéric Vandenberghe (HIAS fellow, UFRJ, Brazil) and Frank Adloff (Futures of Sustainability)