We had a lively set of seminars in Spring 2024, featuring our core CBCD staff and alumni, and teachers on the MSc Ethnobotany programme.
Thursday, January 18th
Professor Patricia Howard (CBCD): Food Chains, Agrobiodiversity Conservation and the Kitchen: A Political Ecology Approach
Thursday, February 1st
Emma Leach and Andrew Merritt (Cement Fields): How can we rewild our beaches? A proposal for an intertidal allotment on the Isle of Sheppey.
Thursday, February 8th
Professor Roy Ellen (CBCD): Identifying Plants as a Process of Cultural Cognition: Comparing Knowledge Production and Communities of Practice in Modern Botanical Science and Nuaulu Ethnobotany
Thursday, February 15th
Dr Sukvinder Bhamra (Medway School of Pharmacy): Bridging the gap of Herbal Medicines knowledge
Prof. Michael Heinrich (UCL School of Pharmacy): Ethnopharmacology: More than just the search for new drugs
Kazia Watson (Kent Ethnobotany): Bitter herbs for diabetes in Guyana
Thursday, February 22nd
Professor Christian Vogl (BOKU- Vienna; CBCD): Applied research on ethnobotany in the Tyrolean Alps (Austria)
Thursday, February 29th
Miguel Alexiades (CBCD): Plastics and the Monsters of the Anthropocene: Rethinking the science and politics of Waste
Friday March 15th
Dario Novellino (CBCD): ‘The death of a bear’: Rethinking extensive grazing systems and large carnivores coexistence in central Italy