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THIS WEEK – May 18-19, 2022 | 1 to 6 pm (UK) 7 am to 12 pm (Lima)
Just Coca 2022 – Health | Science | People
Coca leaf and coca products: uses, safety, medical applications, and regulatory challenges
Details: JUST COCA 2022
Registration is open: Day 1 and Day 2
Our third in the webinar series People and Psychoactive Plants exploring exisiting stigma and new models of social regulation for psychoactive plants.
Past Events ONLINE
Kent-Kew Distinguished Ethnobotanist Lecture 2021
RECORDING HERE
Professor Manuel Pardo-de-Santayana (UAM, Real Jardin Botanique, Madrid)
Protecting traditional botanical knowledge in the era of open science: lessons learned from Spain
A lecture on documenting and preserving traditional botanical knowledge, especially that of wild plant foods and medicines across Spain.
Tuesday 12 October, 2021, Jodrell Lecture Theatre, Kew Gardens. More information here
WEBINAR: People and Psychoactive Plants
Webinar series exploring exisiting stigma and new models of social regulation for tobacco, cannabis, coca, and alcohol.
From Menace to Medicine: Cannabis in Transition
Panel discussion held April 1st 2021, with special guests led by Dr. Axel Klein Panel, bios and video interviews
Tobacco 15 years after the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control – Global Governance, local stigma
Panel discussions held 30th September and 1st October 2020, with special guests led by Dr. Axel Klein Panel Recordings here
2020 Distinguished Ethnobotanist Lecture
Dr. Ina Vandebroek, The New York Botanical Garden, Caribbean Ethnobotany: Herbs, Health and Heritage Across Borders. Held Ocotboer 13, 2020. Ethnobotany Lecture
Book Launch with Prof Roy Ellen
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unch celebrating two new books from Emeritus Professor Roy Ellen was held on 28th January, 2021.
Nature Wars and The Nuaulu World of Plants
A recording of the event will be available on the RAI YouTube channel.
See our new CBCD YOUTUBE Channel for more content.
For more information please contact Dr Raj Puri (rkp@kent.ac.uk), Director of the Centre for Biocultural Diversity at Kent.