Vera-Simone Schulz, Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz - Max-Planck-Institut
All talks take place at 10 – 11:30 am EST (Philadelphia time)
Thursday, November 11, 2021
Elaine Ayers (New York University): Packed in Moss: Bryology and the Circulation of Plants in Nineteenth-Century Colonial Natural History
Thursday, December 9, 2021
West Africa Session:
Amanda Logan (Northwestern University): Archaeobotanical Evidence of Food and Crafting from Oduduwa College, Ile-Ife, Nigeria
Chioma Ngonadi (University of Nigeria, Nsukka / University of Cambridge): Ancient Food Practices and Pottery Production in Southeastern Nigeria
Orijemie Emuobosa Akpo (University of Ibadan): From the Hills to the Valley: Changing Food Production Practices among the Tiv in Central Nigeria
Thursday, January 13, 2022
Jennifer Leetsch (Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn): Mary Seacole’s Plant Matter(s): Vegetal Entanglements of the Black Atlantic in “Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands” (1857)
Lidia Ponce de la Vega (McGill University): The Travel Stories of Plants in the “Biodiversity Heritage Library”: Colonization and (In)Visibility of the Global South in Human-Plants Relationships
Thursday, February 10, 2022
Sarah Longair (University of Lincoln): The Coco-de-Mer in the 19th-Century Indian Ocean World: Connections, Conservation and Colonialism
Thursday, March 10, 2022
Aqsa Mengal (Lahore University), Dania Nasir (Lahore University), Kulsoom Din Malik (Lahore University) and Moiz Abdul Majid (Tufts University UEP): Nature in the City: Memory, Scandal and Leisure in Lahore’s Urban Parks
Thursday, April 14, 2022
East Africa Session:
Cecylia Mgombele (University of Dar es Salaam), Sinyati Robinson Mark (University of Dar es Salaam) and Sarah Walshaw (Simon Fraser University): Human-Plant Relationships in Tanzania’s Past: Changes, Choices, Challenges – and Specifically the Changes Brought with the Caravan Trade
Thursday, May 12, 2022
Anna Arabindan-Kesson (Princeton University) in conversation with Annalee Davis: Sites of Healing: Plantation Histories and Histories of Care in the Work of Annalee Davis
Thursday, June 9, 2022
Melanie Boehi (University of the Witwatersrand), Phakamani m’Africa Xaba (Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden) and Luciano Concheiro San Vicente (The National Autonomous University of Mexico): Reimagining Botanical Gardens and Urban Parks in a Time of Crisis
Thursday, July 14, 2022
Maxmillian J. Chuhila (University of Dar es Salaam): Green Imperialism and Biomedical Campaigns in Colonial Tanganyika
Previous Seminar:
Thursday, October 14, 2021
Jonathan Robins (Michigan Technological University): Misreading Africa’s Oil Palm Landscapes: Colonial Legacies in Agriculture, Ecology, and Agroforestry
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