Conversations on: Forests and Wellbeing

Time

19.11.2025 14.00 – 16.00
What does wellbeing mean? And whose wellbeing matters today? Can forests be sites of wellbeing? Or should forests themselves be the focus of contemporary healthcare concerns? How can the humanities and social sciences complement ecological or medical approaches to forest wellbeing?

Hosted by the online seminar series Current Intersections of Culture, Language and Wellbeing, these conversation raises questions and invites exchanges across the humanities and social sciences. With interventions by three invited panelists, Dr Olga Cielemecka (UEF), Dr Lena Gottelier (UTU) and Dr Attila Krizsan (UTU), this seminar brings culture, language and wellbeing into dialogue with our natural and constructed environments.

More information about our speakers’ research interests and expertise can be found at the link below.

Join us online for this tree-mendous event!

Wednesday, 19th November, 14:15-16:00
https://utu.zoom.us/j/62458171577
Meeting ID: 624 5817 1577

The seminar series is a multidisciplinary online seminar organized by three networks from the University of Turku: the Cultural Interaction Researcher Network KULTVA, the Centre of Language and Wellbeing (LaWe), and the Research Center for Culture and Health.