Call for Applications for the HIAS Summer School 2025 "Eating Together. Food, Ecology, and Conviviality"An interdisciplinary menu, put together by Frédéric Vandenberghe and Frank Adloff.

29. April 2025

Call for Applications
HIAS Summer School 2025
Eating Together. Food, Ecology, and Conviviality
Hamburg, 7-12 July 2025
Deadline May 23, 2025

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, sociological, geographical, historical, (agro-)ecological, aesthetic and political aspects.

This summer school 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.

Organized by: Frédéric Vandenberghe (HIAS/ UFRJ, Brazil), Frank Adloff (University of Hamburg)

The deadline for application is May 23, 2025, earlier submissions are welcome.

Please find all necessary application information here.