Just to start: a preliminary programme
Notice: This is only an example; the final programme can be very similar or may involve more, simultaneous sessions, depending on the results of this call; also particular session topics are just examples.
16.09.2025
- Introduction; Plenary session with the lecture of Guest Speaker I
- Oral presentations of participants with discussion in four thematic panels
- I Past and present of a rural landscape (historical ecology): classification, transformation and potential for agriculture; abandonment effect - growing feral or (re)wilding - ecology of a cultural landscape - trees and woods in a working landscape - (...);
- II Farming anthropology: bio-cultural refuges/heritage - village social systems and values - peasant family farm -rural communities - traditional wisdom and traditional ecological knowledge - (...)
- III The true economy of smallholder multifunctional family farming: (...)
- IV Multi-functional farming in the time of crisis and transformation: a food landscape - food sovereignty - agriculture’s contribution to conservation - regenerative farming - adaptation to climate change - (...)
- V Impact of policies and politics on farming and farmlands: EU CAP - rural identity vs. cultural urbanisation - subsidiarity vs. subsidising - cultural severance and generational amnesia - (...)
- Plenary session with the lecture of Guest Speaker II and plenary discussion
- Poster session I
17.09.2025
- Continuing the session in four thematic blocks
- Poster session II
- Plenary lectures by Guest Speakers III, IV
- A panel discussion involving farmer representatives "Small-holder family farms: a local autonomy in the global interest"
18.09.2025
- Field tour session: e.g. Chmielnik commune - semi-natural grazing as ecological intensification of the use of post-agricultural landscape; multifunctional circular farming; citizen-supported farming
Presentation by Guest Speaker V