Summer School Sardinia: An Epistemology of Food Waste

[Tammara Soma]

Hello lovely colleagues!

Please find this call for application for a interdisciplinary summer school which we will be hosting in Sardinia.

With best wishes,

Tammara

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Call for Applications

Summer School: Epistemology of Food Waste. Interdisciplinary Perspectives

Dates: 14–18 June

Location: Officine Condivise, Sassari, Sardinia, Italy

The Summer School Epistemology of Food Waste. Interdisciplinary Perspectives is an intensive, interdisciplinary training program designed to explore food waste through different forms of knowledge. The School is grounded in a central insight: satisfactory solutions to food waste problems cannot be devised and implemented  without first examining how different forms of knowledge—scientific, traditional, experiential, embodied, and normative—participate in shaping the concept of waste itself. The Summer School, bringing together philosophy, food studies, environmental sciences, political theory, as well as hands-on practices and traditional ecological knowledge, cultivates the forms of expertise necessary to develop a coherent and pluralistic epistemology of food waste.

Educational Approach

The Summer School functions as a pedagogy of epistemic plurality, combining:

• Daily lectures 
• Interdisciplinary seminars 
• Experiential and field-based workshops
• Collective meals and collaborative activities

Participants will receive a certificate of attendance.

Instructors

Andrea Borghini – University of Milan, Italy

Sally Geislar – Saint Mary’s College, Indiana, USA

Matteo Garau – University of Sassari, Italy

Nicola Piras – University of Minho, Portugal

Gyorgy Scrinis – University of Melbourne, Australia

Tammara Soma – Simon Fraser University, Canada

Rachel Vaughn – University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), USA

Application

The School will host 10 students (graduate students, PhD candidates, and early-career researchers) from any discipline. Applicants should submit a CV and a brief motivation letter to nicola...@elach.uminho.pt

 

The deadline for submission is March 15th, and you will be notified of the decision by March 25th, 2026.

Costs Covered

Fees, accommodation (shared rooms), all meals (except one dinner), workshops, and accident insurance will be covered for all selected applicants. 

Costs Not Covered

Travel will not be covered. Sassari can easily be reached via bus or taxi  via the international airports of Alghero (the closest to the school venue), Olbia, and Cagliari.

Funding

This work is funded by national funds through FCT – the Foundation for Science and Technology, I.P., under the scope of the Exploratory Projects 2023 Grant 2023.12085.PEX, FCT

Local organizers: 

Nicola Piras, University of Minho, Portugal 

Matteo Garau, University of Sassari, Italy

Michelangelo Bestazzi, University of Minho, Portugal 

For any queries, please contact nicola...@elach.uminho.pt

Tammara Soma Ph.D MCIP RPP

Associate Professor, Simon Fraser University

Director of Research and Co-Founder: foodsystemslab.ca 

Founding member: foodwastestudies.com 

[Abulude, Ifeoluwa A.]

Thank you Tammara for sharing the call. 

Best wishes, 

Ifeoluwa Abulude

Doctoral Student | DAAD Scholar | Justus-Liebig University. Giessen. Germany

M.Sc.| Agric. Extension and Rural Dev. Landmark University. Omu-Aran. Nigeria

Alternative email: ifeoluw...@gmail.com 

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