#planthumanities — Public Fediverse posts

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

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

"Cultivating the Plant Humanities: a lecture by Yota Batsaki. Her talk will describe the Plant Humanities Initiative at Dumbarton Oaks as an example of how plant-focused projects and collections can stimulate research and public communication around humans, culture, and the environment. The lecture is organised by Royal Holloway's Centre for GeoHumanities."

There does not appear to be an online option. #PlantHumanities

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cultivating-the-plant-humanities-tickets-850807416887

Open Cultural Studies (www.degruyter.com/CULTURE) invites submissions for a topical issue “Critical Plant Theories and Cultures: Exploring Human and More-than-human World Entanglements” @plantscience

#PlantHumanities #Interdisciplinary #Botany

https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20027100/call-papers-topical-issue-open-cultural-studies-critical-plant

@barrygoldman1 @ml @plantscience @academicchatter

A creative way that has tried to sell old shoes in a more anthropocentric way, fitting our times; check out this 2018 post on Scientific American:

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/how-have-plants-shaped-human-societies/

Regarding the quoted expert and former head of Kew, he's the reason I couldn't publish this graph in 2007 (too unusual): a great politician, a poor researcher. Would have made him probably perfect for something like #PlantHumanities 😉

Please boost for reach!

I'm trying to find out about people & institutions working in the emerging Plant Humanities (esp if they're working outside the US). I'd like to be able to do an informational interview with someone in this field to see if it's where I'd like to head.

Thanks! @plantscience @academicchatter #PlantHumanities #Botany #AcademicChatter

If you read early 20th c Norwegian handwriting well, University of Oslo Museum of Natural History is looking for folks to help them with a plant humanities project.

"Furthermore, the project is a collaboration between the humanities and natural sciences. This cooperation is necessary for a comprehensive understanding of human relationships with plants."

https://www.nhm.uio.no/english/research/projects/people-and-plants/

#CommunityScience #PlantHumanities #Botany

"Plant Perspectives is a new forum, grounded in interdisciplinary plant studies, to explore plant–human interactions in all spatial, temporal and cultural contexts." https://www.whpress.co.uk/PP.html

#PlantHumanities #Botany

The work I was already doing with carob (Ceratonia siliqua) fits this. I hope I can find a good PhD that comes up at the right time.

"Plant Humanities: Where Arts, Humanities & Plants Meet Where Next? Development Programme Final Report to UKRI." https://kew.iro.bl.uk/concern/reports/eca8ca29-a12b-4f10-9bae-c481c42e2a9e

#PlantScience #PlantHumanities #Botany #Art #Ethnobotany #History

Peut-on parler d'intelligence des plantes ? Cette conférence de Quentin Hiernaux est remarquable de clarté et de pédagogie. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1wVvaZb0v8 #PlantBlindness #PlantHumanities

Peut-on parler d'intelligence des plantes ? Cette conférence de Quentin Hiernaux est remarquable de clarté et de pédagogie. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1wVvaZb0v8 #PlantBlindness #PlantHumanities

Peut-on parler d'intelligence des plantes ? Cette conférence de Quentin Hiernaux est remarquable de clarté et de pédagogie. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1wVvaZb0v8 #PlantBlindness #PlantHumanities

Peut-on parler d'intelligence des plantes ? Cette conférence de Quentin Hiernaux est remarquable de clarté et de pédagogie. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1wVvaZb0v8 #PlantBlindness #PlantHumanities

A little sample of our 7 million plus #herbarium specimens at Kew & a reminder that #botany is beautiful - in the preserved collection, as well as in the field
As well as our core support for #Taxonomy #Traits #Conservation research & #PlantHumanities many of the research questions to apply to this global #DataResource may be things we've not even considered yet...
#OpenScience
#BiodiversityInformatics