Final Call: Foraging Futures Symposium | Slovenia, October, 2025
Dear all,
This symposium explores the evolving practices of foraging, scavenging, and gleaning in times of economic and environmental uncertainty. While foraging is often associated with wild foods—mushrooms, herbs, and edible plants—it also extends to discarded materials, overlooked urban resources, and reclaimed goods. Across the world, these practices sustain livelihoods, shape alternative economies, and challenge dominant systems of production and consumption.
Bringing together practitioners, scholars, and artists, this symposium highlights participatory, field-based approaches that provide direct insights into the cultural, social, and ecological dimensions of foraging. Alongside these perspectives, we welcome contributions from visual anthropology, sensory ethnography, and environmental humanities that examine foraging within broader economic and ecological contexts. Through this interdisciplinary exchange, the symposium seeks to expand our understanding of foraging—not just as an economic necessity, but as a form of knowledge, adaptation, and creative engagement with a changing world.
Location
The symposium will take place from October 3rd to 7th, 2025, in Triglav National Park, Slovenia—a region renowned for mushroom foraging and mountain herb collecting. The natural setting offers opportunities for outdoor sessions and hands-on activities, complementing the symposium’s themes.
Accommodation and meals will be provided for all participants. A limited number of travel grants will be available. Priority will be given to those without access to travel funding.
Submission deadline: May 4, 2025
See full call and guidelines here: https://foraging.work/symposium/
Contact
📩 Emilia Tsutsumi – emiliatsutsumi@gmail.com 📩 Matjaz Pinter – matjaz.pinter@gmail.com
We look forward to your contributions!
Vaneasa mailing list Vaneasa@lists.easaonline.org http://lists.easaonline.org/listinfo.cgi/vaneasa-easaonline.org
