Plants in Africa and the Global South

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Plants in Africa and the Global South

Veranstalter
Abidemi Babatunde Babalola (The British Museum, UK) and Vera-Simone Schulz (Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz - Max-Planck-Institut)
Veranstaltungsort
Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine (online)
PLZ
19106-2426
Ort
Philadelphia, PA (online)
Land
United States
Vom - Bis
11.11.2021 - 14.07.2022
Website
https://www.chstm.org/content/plants-africa-and-global-south-multi-species-materialities-ecologies-and-aesthetics-mmea
Von
Vera-Simone Schulz, Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz - Max-Planck-Institut

This online seminar series and working group, hosted by the Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine (CHSTM), brings together researchers, practitioners and artists interested in plants in Africa and the Global South to discuss methodological questions concerning plant research in the humanities and social sciences on and beyond the African continent.

Plants in Africa and the Global South

Plants in Africa and the Global South: Multi-Species Materialities, Ecologies, and Aesthetics (MMEA)

An online seminar series, co-convened by Abidemi Babatunde Babalola (The British Museum, UK) and Vera-Simone Schulz (Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut)
Hosted by the Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine (CHSM)

This online seminar series and working group, hosted by the Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine (CHSTM), brings together researchers, practitioners and artists interested in plants in Africa and the Global South to discuss methodological questions concerning plant research in the humanities and social sciences on and beyond the African continent. Mmea is the Kiswahili word for "plant." What methods are promising for studying plant epistemologies in Africa? What methods are suitable for working across disciplines, such as the natural sciences and the humanities and social sciences, but also with disciplines outside of the academy, including Indigenous knowledge systems? What are the methodological specificities of doing plant research in the Global South? Which methods are useful for research practices that are attentive to the practices of plant practitioners and research that is committed to social justice and climate justice? What methodological innovations come out of plant research concerning interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary approaches, as well as approaches that incorporate artistic research? What specific forms for documenting, presenting and communicating plant research evolve in these activities? The seminar series is concerned with plants in diverse contexts and disciplines, including but not limited to Indigenous knowledge systems, botany and plant sciences, food, medicine, horticulture, and plant collecting institutions like herbaria and botanical gardens. This is an open program and further talks will be added to the series.

Programm

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

Sign up and attend the online series for free by becoming a member for free here:
https://www.chstm.org/content/plants-africa-and-global-south-multi-species-materialities-ecologies-and-aesthetics-mmea

Kontakt

vera-simone.schulz@khi.fi.it

https://www.chstm.org/content/plants-africa-and-global-south-multi-species-materialities-ecologies-and-aesthetics-mmea