{"id":146,"date":"2018-09-01T12:03:14","date_gmt":"2018-09-01T11:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/upgrade-cbcd\/?p=146"},"modified":"2020-11-18T08:32:38","modified_gmt":"2020-11-18T08:32:38","slug":"plant-worlds-a-cross-disciplinary-forum-on-human-plant-relationships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/cbcd\/2018\/09\/01\/plant-worlds-a-cross-disciplinary-forum-on-human-plant-relationships\/","title":{"rendered":"Plant Worlds: A cross-disciplinary forum on Human-Plant relationships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This was the second in the <em>Botanical Ontologies <\/em>series, which brings into dialogue excellent postgraduate research on the diversity and complexity of human\u2013plant relationships from a variety of disciplinary and interdisciplinary standpoints.<\/p>\n<p>The first symposium was held in Oxford in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong><u>In Memoriam\u00a0 <\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This symposium was dedicated to the memory of Claudia Comberti, a doctoral student at Oxford who was scheduled to speak at this symposium, but who was tragically killed by a bus in a bicycle accident in Oxford on Tuesday, 9 May 2017.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Plant Worlds Organizing committee:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Raj Puri, Chair (Kent), Lewis Daly (UCL), Katherine French (Oxford), Olwen Grace (RBG Kew), Holly Harris (Kent), Louisa Jones (Kent), Kay Evelina Lewis-Jones (Kent), Mercy Morris (Kent), Irene Teixidor-Toneu (Reading), Victoria Wyllie de Echeverria (Oxford)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong><u>PLANT WORLDS PROGRAMME<br \/>\n<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Friday May 19<sup>th<\/sup><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><u>Welcome:<\/u> <strong>Professor Jim Groombridge<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Head of School, Anthropology and Conservation, Kent<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dr. Rajindra Puri, <\/strong>Director, Centre for Biocultural Diversity<\/p>\n<p><u>Plenary Speakers<\/u><\/p>\n<p><strong>Dr Laura Rival, <\/strong>School of Anthropology, University of Oxford<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dr Michael Maunder, <\/strong>Director of Life Sciences, The Eden Project<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><u>Plant World Posters:<\/u><\/p>\n<p><strong>Holly Harris <\/strong>(DICE, University of Kent): <em>Back to the Future? Foraging wild edible plants on Britain\u2019s seashores<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Carolina Perini de Almeida <\/strong>(University of Brasilia): <em>Trunks, Roots and Seeds among the Terena (Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Oliver Wilson <\/strong>(University of Reading): <em>Assessing the impacts of pre-Columbian people and climate change on Brazil\u2019s Araucaria forests, and their implications for conservation<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Caroline Ware <\/strong>(Natural History Museum): <em>Himalayan Giant Nettle: From forest to fibre in Eastern Nepal<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Saturday May 20<sup>th<\/sup> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><u>Session One:<\/u> Urban Dwelling with Plants<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Louisa Jones <\/strong>(University of Kent): <em>Marketing reciprocity: the\u00a0mixed metaphysics of commercial foraging<\/em><em> in Kent, UK<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Mina Samangooei <\/strong>(School of Architecture, Oxford Brookes): <em>Individuals Cultivating Edible Plants on Buildings in England<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Mercy Morris <\/strong>(University of Kent): <em>Growing Together: People and their plants at home in the UK<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><u>Session Two:<\/u> Health, Healing, and Plant-Personhood<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Elizabeth Elliott <\/strong>(University College London): <em>\u2018Plants are like People\u2019: The production of medicinal plant knowledge in lowland Laos.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Giulio Ongaro <\/strong>(London School of Economics): <em>Akha Medicinal Plants: Knowledge and effectiveness<\/em><em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Tyler Phan <\/strong>(University College London): <em>Herb Dealers: The legality of Chinese herbs in the United States<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Cory Rodgers <\/strong>(University of Oxford): <em>A Phenomenological Foundation for Botanical Ontologies: Insights from the ritual use of Cyperus sedges among Turkana herders in northwestern Kenya<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><u>Session Three:<\/u> Conservation and Plant-Politics<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>M\u00e9lanie Congretel <\/strong>(AgroParisTech-UMR SADAPT): <em>Plants Stories in a Globalized World or New Plant Worlds? The case of guaran\u00e1(s) in the Brazilian Amazon<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Joana Viana Canelas <\/strong>(DICE, University of Kent): <em>Forest\u2019s Mothers: Assessing cultural ecosystem services in a storied landscape<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Austin Hagwood <\/strong>(University of Cambridge): <em>Seeing REDD: The political ecology of logging in Papua New Guinea<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><u>Session Four<\/u>: The Alimentary Lives of Plants<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Mark Chatarpal <\/strong>(Indiana University): <em>Cassava Politics: An examination of the shifting consumption patterns of roots and tubers by the Caribbean community<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Sophie Tabouret <\/strong>(MINES ParisTech, PSL Research University): <em>Disease-Resistant Varieties Evaluated in a Mediterranean Wine-Growing Context: The development of new ontologies?<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><u>Workshop:<\/u> Sharing Plant Worlds: Future trajectories<\/p>\n<p>(a) Reflections on the Symposium: How does our work contribute to learning how to better share the world with plants, and how might the <em>Botanical Ontologies<\/em> series contribute to future trajectories for human-plant engagements in the Anthropocene?<\/p>\n<p>(b) Plant World Forum: Discussion regarding the development of an ongoing community of people-plant research and an online forum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was the second in the Botanical Ontologies series, which brings into dialogue excellent postgraduate research on the diversity and complexity of human\u2013plant relationships from a variety of disciplinary and interdisciplinary standpoints. 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