"30-month Postdoctoral Research Associate in Human Geography to work within the Leverhulme Trust funded project “Plants out of place: entanglements with ‘invasive weeds’ in the Anthropocene”."

https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQP831/postdoctoral-research-associate-in-human-geography #Humanities #Glasgow #PlantHumanities

Postdoctoral Research Associate in Human Geography at Durham University

An academic position as a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Human Geography is being advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Click now to find more details and explore additional academic job opportunities.

Jobs.ac.uk

"In this special series, Edge Effects seeks to diversify, complicate, and proliferate Botanical Imaginations. How do communities around the world relate with plants? How do plants shape our understandings of nature and ourselves? How might the principles of ecological justice apply to plant relationalities?

We invite methodologies and perspectives at the edge between humanities and social & natural sciences, as well as between cultures, ages, and time"

https://edgeeffects.net/botanical-imaginations-call/ #PlantHumanities

Call for Submissions: "Botanical Imaginations" - Edge Effects

Edge Effects invites submissions for that explore our complex relationship to plants and proliferate botanical imaginations.

Edge Effects

"...we invited scholars from across academic disciplines to share something plant-y they are excited to read/view and teach this academic semester. Their varied recommendations speak to the diversity of human-plant relations, taking us from the roadside hedge to the garden, from the plate to the lab, and from accounts of speculative fiction to physical, historic furniture."

https://edgeeffects.net/faculty-recommendations-plants/ #PlantHumanities #History #Botany

Faculty Favorites: Critical Interventions in the Plant Humanities - Edge Effects

Faculty recommend their favorite books and poems at the intersection of plants and the environmental humanities

Edge Effects

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

Plant fever Politics poetics and Pleasures of Houseplants conference 2025

Information on the conference Plant fever politics poetics and pleasures of houseplants in Copenhagen 2025

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

2024 Plant Humanities Virtual Faculty Residencies

June 3–14, 2024 | Two-week virtual faculty residencies to facilitate the integration of the Plant Humanities Lab and associated resources into curricula related to plants and people.

Dumbarton Oaks
Australia's Cactus Calamity

YouTube

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

Tonka Bean: The Tale of a Contested Commodity - JSTOR Daily

The rise and fall of the sweet-smelling seeds of Dipteryx odorata stands in stark contrast to the tree’s lasting presence in global markets.

JSTOR Daily

"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