got lost outside my so-called field of work and loved it ... felt reminded and recognized ... #phytopoetics ... chimeric emancipation ... #queer plant love ...- ...
#colonialism ... economics ...

https://conferences.au.dk/plant-fever

Astrid Møller-Olsen
Anette Vandsø
Nick Shepherd
Franziska Bergmann
Thomas Storey
Jeanette Ehlers
Lene Floris
and sooo many others

none of whom are in the fediverse yet - ?
let s try #plantfever #botany #houseplants #plantHumanities #humanities #chimera

@plants

Learning about

Beate Weyland and Simona Galateo, Domestic #Ecologies of #Learning: #Houseplants as Agents of Pedagogical and Spatial Transformation

at #plantfever #conference

https://conferences.au.dk/plant-fever

Slightly outside my normal field (but relevant - teaching Plant #IoT as part of our IoT course, and are determined to develop this further ) - aware of incompleteness/flaws of approach ...

#aau #aarhus #university #plants #ecology #GreenIT
#interdisciplinary #planthumanities
#edugreen #edenlab

2026 East Asia Plant Humanities Virtual Faculty Residencies

"June 1–12, 2026 (virtual) | Seminar for faculty in East Asia Studies who are interested in integrating more plant-related sources and narratives in their teaching. Apply by February 15."

https://www.doaks.org/research/fellowships-and-awards/virtual-faculty-residencies #PlantHumanities #EastAsia #Ethnobotany

Australia's Cactus Calamity

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5Bp1xPx-YM #Colonialism #PlantHumanities #Botany #History

Tonka Bean: The Tale of a Contested Commodity

"Traditionally, sarrapia was used medicinally by Indigenous groups, such as the Mapoyo, and mixed-race groups like the Aripao and Jabillal. Guided by elders, one was supposed to consume no more than three fruits per day; local knowledge held that excess could cause fever or body aches..."

https://daily.jstor.org/tonka-bean-the-tale-of-a-contested-commodity/ #Botany #Ethnobotany #PlantHumanities

"Plants and Religion - Religious Motivations in Naming of Plants in Albania"

"ethnobiologists have emphasized the importance of plant local names as repositories of traditional knowledge to understand how communities recognize and use plants known to them. Folk plant names constitute a nomenclature that represents a set of terms, a list of names belonging to the domain of folk botany"

https://hrcak.srce.hr/file/446984

doi:10.5671/ca.47.2.8 #Botany #PlantHumanities #Linguistics #Ethnobotany #Albania

Passing on this call for papers:

Plant Fever: Politics, Poetics, and Pleasures of Houseplants

A Conference on Plant Humanities and Experimental Methodologies.
2–3 December 2025 | Copenhagen, DK

Deadline: September 15th, 2025, final confirmation October 10th, final registration for speakers November 1st, 2025

http://eseh.org/cfp-plant-fever-a-conference-on-plant-humanities-and-experimental-methodologies-2-3-december-2025-copenhagen/ @plantscience #PlantHumanities

"Quintessential Resilience: The Breadfruit in the Caribbean"

https://daily.jstor.org/quintessential-resilience-the-breadfruit-in-the-caribbean/ #FruitToot #PlantHumanities #PlantBreeding @plantscience

Botanical names and the practices that pre-serve the legacies of empire

"Plant naming is a fractious area of botany, partly because most plants are named after white, western men. Acknowledgement of female and Indigenous plant collectors is often absent from plant names and also from the botanical database records."

"While in Australia, English botanist Joseph Banks (1743-1820) collected 1,400 plants over his seven-week trip. No Aboriginal plant names were recorded. Plants were then returned to Britain and Europe to meet the growing hunger for rare natural collections. These collections became the major European museums and herbaria we know today, such as Kew Gardens in London."

"Subramaniam’s book views colonialism as a genocide, an ecocide and an epistemicide where Indigenous knowledges were mostly lost but also partly appropriated."
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https://theconversation.com/sex-plants-and-colonisation-reclaiming-botany-from-the-tendrils-of-empire-234679

Botanists vote to remove racist reference from plants’ scientific names
https://www.theguardian.com/science/article/2024/jul/20/botanists-remove-racist-references-plants-scientific-names

Restoring Indigenous names in taxonomy
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7584613/

Botany of Empire, Plant Worlds and the Scientific Legacies of Colonialism, Banu Subramaniam, 2024
https://uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295752457/botany-of-empire/
#botany #biology #nomenclature #taxonomy #ScientificNames #epistemicide #DB #databases #PlantSciences #Plants #terminology #ecology #conservation #restoration #colonialism #empire #IndigenousPeoples #women #Book #PlantHumanities

I miss Dan Chitwood being on social media, but he's one of the authors on this pre-print.

"Global disparities in plant science: a legacy of colonialism, patriarchy, and exclusion"

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.10.15.512190v1

@plantscience #Colonialism #Capitalism #PlantScience #PlantHumanities #Botany