Ethnobotany/ethnobiology/economic botany events at UW-Madison and elsewhere.
The Department of Botany is co-sponsoring the presentation "Exploring American Indian Agriculture and Food Systems Past, Present and Future," by Dan Cornelius on 26 November 2012 at 6 pm, in the H. F. DeLuca Forum Room at the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery, 330 North Orchard Street, Madison, WI. The event is organized by the Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems.
March 2012: A public lecture series on
Indigenous North American Ethnobotany
3:30 pm on three Wednesdays, the 14, 21, and 28th of March, in B302 Birge Hall (on the lowest level)
March 14: Nancy Turner, PhD: “Adam's Gardens: Biodiversity and Traditional Food Production of Indigenous Peoples of Northwestern North America.” Dr. Nancy Turner, an award winning Distinguished Professor in the School of Environmental Studies at the University of Victoria, has collaborated with Indigenous communities of northwestern North America for over 40 years in documenting and promoting their traditional knowledge of plants and habitats.
March 21: Jane Mt. Pleasant, PhD: “Reframing North American Indigenous Agriculture: It's the Agronomy, Stupid!” Dr. Jane Mt. Pleasant, an Associate Professor of Horticulture and former Director of the American Indian Program at Cornell University, studies indigenous American agriculture and Indigenous knowledge.
March 28: Linda DifferentCloud-Jones: “Restoring Lands, Restoring People: Culturally Important Plants and the Lakota Nation.” Ms. Linda Different Cloud-Jones is an instructor at Sitting Bull College and also a PhD student at Montana State University. She studies ecological restoration of culturally important plants.
This seminar series is organized by the Laboratory of Ethnobotany, Evolution and Conservation of Crop Plants and Wild Relatives (Eve Emshwiller, PhD, Assistant Professor of Botany, faculty advisor) in order to promote interactions of faculty, post-doctoral fellows, and students interested in ethnobotany. In addition, the series is meant to provide a new venue for networking among those on campus who are interested in all aspects of ethnobiology, ultimately creating interdisciplinary exchanges of ideas and opportunities for cross-campus collaborations.
There will be additional events and opportunities to meet the speakers during the 3-day stay of each invited speaker. For more information, please contact Dr. Eve Emshwiller at <emshwiller@wisc.edu>.
The sponsors of this seminar series include:
Botany Department
Women in Science and Engineering Leadership Institute (WISELI)
University Lectures Committee
American Indian Studies (AIS)
Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems (CIAS)
Agroecology MSc Program
Anthropology Department
Center for Culture, History and Enviroment (CHE)
UW-Madison chapter of SACNAS (a student organization affiliated with National SACNAS)