Events


Lea Loretta Zentgraf and Mariana Calcagni at the ISA in Rabat

Our former group members Lea Loretta Zentgraf and Mariana Calcagni have participated in the ISA (International Sociological Association) Forum of Sociology, which took place in Rabat, Morocco, from July 6 to 11, 2025.

The 5th Forum brought together sociologists from all over the world and addressed questions around the theme “Knowing Justice in the Anthropocene”.

Further information on this event can be found here.

The former FFJ members gave the following four presentations at the conference, which were funded by the project:

Alternative Food Initiatives in Germany and the Value of “Good Food” (Lea Loretta Zentgraf, Thalita Kalix Garcia)

  • Program: Research Committees RC40 Sociology of Agriculture and Food
  • Session: Integrating Values into the Food System: How to Scale Alternative Food Initiatives (Part 1)
  • Slot: Monday, 7 July 2025: 11:00 – 12:45, Annex of the Faculty of Legal, Economic, and Social Sciences, ASJE025

We Are Fed up! Bridging Rural-Urban Divides in a Coalition for Agrarian and Food Change in Germany (Lea Loretta Zentgraf, Prof. Dr. Renata Campos Motta)

  • Program: Research Committees RC40 Sociology of Agriculture and Food
  • Session: Rural Citizen(ship) in Action: Grassroots Mobilisation for Ecological and Social Change
  • Slot: Monday, 7 July 2025: 19:00 – 20:30, Annex of the Faculty of Legal, Economic, and Social Sciences, ASJE025

Rural Youth in Germany: The Convergence of Feminist, Agrarian and Environmental Agendas in the Junge AbL (Mariana Calcagni)

  • Program: RC40 Sociology of Agriculture and Food
  • Session: Rural Citizen(ship) in Action: Grassroots Mobilisation for Ecological and Social Change
  • Slot: Monday, 7 July 2025 19:00-20:30  ASJE025 (Bloc 3, Annex of the Faculty of Legal, Economic, and Social Sciences)

From Peasant Women to Social Change: The Politicization of Identities and Materialities Towards Socio-Ecological Transitions” (Mariana Calcagni)

  • Program: RC32 on Women, Gender and Society
  • Session: Building Feminist and Intersectional Scholarship in Latin America and the Caribbean: Lessons from the Social Sciences
  • Slot: Wednesday, 9 July 2025 15:00-16:45 FSE019 (Faculty of Education Sciences)

Photos: Lea Loretta Zentgraf und Mariana Calcagni