This year’s schedule of Guest Lectures and Seminars organised by the Centre for Biocultural Diversity is now available. All are free and open to all.
Wednesday, January 23rd (2-5 pm) Stirling Library, Marlowe
Professor Christian Vogl (BOKU- Vienna): Changing Human-Environment Relationships in the Austrian Alps
Thursday, January 24th (10-12 pm) Swingland Room, Marlowe
Professor Christian Vogl (BOKU- Vienna): Questions and methods for the ethnobotanical study of homegardens in Latin America
Wednesday, February 13th (11:30 -1 pm) Ingram Lecture Theatre, Ingram Building
Professor Michael Heinrich (UCL School of Pharmacy): Ethnopharmacology: More than just the search for new drugs
Tuesday, February 19th (1 -3 pm) Swingland Room, Marlowe
Professor Chris Sinha (Hunan University): Interdisciplinarity, multiple methods and reflexivity in the cultural linguistic laboratory
Dr Vera da Silva Sinha (UEA): Event-based time in three indigenous Amazonian and Xinguan cultures and languages
Tuesday, February 26th (1 -3 pm) Swingland Room, Marlowe
Dr Kay Lewis-Jones (University of Kent / DEFRA): Saving wild seeds in the Anthropocene: pursuing more-than-human futures at the Millennium Seed Bank Partnership
Wednesday, March 6th (11 -1 pm) Ethnobiology Lab, Marlowe
Mary Butcher (UK): Fibre Plants and Weaving
Wednesday, March 27th (11 – 1 pm) Stirling Library, Marlowe
Dr Monika Kujawska (University of Lodz): Ethnobotanical studies of Polish urban allotment gardens
Thursday, June 6th (2-5 pm) Swingland Room, Marlowe
Dr Matthieu Salpeteur (Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle): Workshop: Cultural Consensus Analysis using R, and Pastoralist adaptation to climate change in Rajasthan