I didn't get enough of a heads up to post about this while the call for papers was open.

"The conference will bring together scholars, artists and researchers from across disciplines to discuss the relationship between plants and human society, with a focus on culture, ecology and sustainability. Key themes include plant intelligence, biodiversity, climate change, food security and plant-based cultural heritage."

https://www.globalplanthumanities.com/2026cfp #PlantHumanities

"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

"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

"...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

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