THIS YEAR'S SUMMER SCHOOL IS OVER
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Faculty of Social Sciences, Ljubljana, Slovenia
JUNE 29 - JULY 2 2026
ULRICH BRAND
is Professor of International Politics at the University of Vienna. His research interests include international politics, critical analyses of globalization and its political regulation, and the intersections of state, economy, and ecology. Together with Markus Wissen, Brand introduced the concept of the imperial mode of living. Their latest book is titled Capitalism at the Limit: A Political Ecology of a World in Crisis (Verso).
HIBIST WENDEMU KASSA
is a Research Associate in Community, Adult & Workers’ Education at the University of Johannesburg. She is also a member of the Institute for Environmental Futures at the University of Leicester. She has published on artisanal mining policy and social reproduction. She also edited a Special Issue on African Resource Sovereignty: Development or Environmental Vandalism? in the New Agenda: South African Journal of Social and Economic Policy published by the Institute for AfricanAlternatives.
MANUELA ZECHNER
is a researcher, educator and organiser. She co-founded the Common Ecologies school, produces the Earthcare Fieldcast and is affiliated with the Centre for Applied Ecological Thinking at Copenhagen University. Her book The Plot is on Fire: Care Struggles after Progress, Plantation and Patriarchy has just been published by Pluto Press.
MORGAN ODY
is a small-scale farmer in Brittany, France. She is the general coordinator of La Via Campesina, the global peasant movement. She has been active in advocating for food sovereignty, agroecology, peasant rights, agrarian reform and popular feminism. She has also being promoting a new international trade framework based on food sovereignty.
MARTÍN LALLANA
is an ecological transition officer of the LAB trade union (Basque Country). In this role, he coordinates the union’s approach to labour disputes and industrial policy in relation to the ecological crisis. With a background in industrial engineering and renewable energy, he worked as a researcher at the University of Zaragoza. He has produced reports on the future demand for metals for Spain’s energy transition, alongside measures for sufficiency and recycling (Ecologistas en Acción, 2021; Friends of the Earth Spain, 2023). He produced reports on socio-ecological transformation in the automotive sector in the Basque Country (Cooperativa Garúa, 2023) and proposals for productive reconversion for a Stellantis stamping plant facing closure (Mecaner, 2024). He is an eco-socialist militant, a member of the editorial team of the magazine Viento Sur, and has published numerous articles on strategic discussion.
ANDREA GHELFI
is a researcher in environmental and territorial sociology at the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the University of Florence. His studies and publications combine an interest in agroecology and ecological movements with theoretical research on the emergence of a new ecological materialism. Among his publications, we can mention La Condizione Ecologica and his editorial work on Connessioni ecologiche. His publications in English include articles Ungovernable Earth: Resurgence, Translocal Infrastructures and More-than-Social Movements and Ecological Transition: What It Is and How to Do It.
HENRIQUE TAHAN NOVAES
is Professor of Philosophy and Sciences at UNESP (São Paulo State University), Brazil. He teaches and researches at the intersection of philosophy, social science, and education. He published Associated Labor and Production in the Age of Barbarism: Education Beyond Capital, a critical examination of associated labour, self-management practices and the potential for education beyond capitalist frameworks. He is also co-author of Destructive Production, Agroecology and Schools of Agroecology in Brazil, which explores struggles against destructive production and the development of agroecological alternatives within Brazil’s Landless Workers’ Movement.
IRENE SOTIROPOULOU
is a lawyer and heterodox economist and also author of “Machines against Measures” (2023). She specialises in ecological, feminist, solidarity and non-capitalist economics, heterodox theories and practices about money and finance, grassroots economic practices and theories, non- monetary economics, and small production and distribution modes. For her research in economics she has been awarded fellowships by the GEM- IWG/GEM-Europe and World Social Science (UNESCO) Fellowship programs and a Newton Mobility Grant by the British Academy.
APPLICATIONS
REASONS TO JOIN US:
- Earn credits through accredited participation for PhD and Master students (5 ECTS / 3 ECTS).
- Immerse yourself in cutting-edge green transition research with leading international and Slovene researchers and practitioners.
- Develop critical thinking about strategies for implementing the green transition.
- Enjoy summer school without fees.
- Engage in interactive activities in the evenings, as well as discover Ljubljana.
Applications for the International Summer School of Political Ecology are now open! Find out more by consulting the application form below.
You can view highlights and lectures from past editions by following the link below.
APPLY
Accredited programme
Application for Master and Doctoral Students with possibility of obtaining ECTS credits.
SUBMITTING THE PAPERS
First phase
Accepted applicants for the Accredited programme need to submit full papers by the due date.
The papers should be submitted in English. The paper must include the author’s full name, mentor or supervisor, name of university, title, abstract and keywords, and the main text with sources.
Students will have the opportunity to present their papers at student seminars (app. 15 min presentation) or at a poster fair (visual presentation) during the Summer School.
Second phase
After the International Summer School students will have the opportunity to additionally edit their
papers with insights gained at the Summer School; the papers must be proofread; the papers will be peer-reviewed and eventually returned to the authors for
correction; the papers will be published in the proceedings of the Summer School in both printed
and electronic versions.
Accepted applicants will receive detalied instructions by e-mail about the paper submission and about the possibilites of presentation of the paper at the Summer School.
A submitted paper is required to recieve 3 (MA) or 5 (PhD) ECTS.
organizatorji
LIFE IP CARE4CLIMATE (LIFE17 IPC/SI/000007) is an integrated project, financed by the European Comission's LIFE Programme, the Slovenian Climate Fund and partners' own contributions.
The Re:boot project is co-financed by the European Union. The views and opinions expressed are the sole responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views and opinions of the European Commission.
The author(s) are solely responsible for the views and information expressed in this document, which do not necessarily reflect the views of the European Commission or other co-funders.
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