{"id":1914,"date":"2015-10-27T12:55:53","date_gmt":"2015-10-27T12:55:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/?p=1914"},"modified":"2015-10-27T12:55:53","modified_gmt":"2015-10-27T12:55:53","slug":"16th-annual-distinguished-ethnobotanist-lecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/2015\/10\/27\/16th-annual-distinguished-ethnobotanist-lecture\/","title":{"rendered":"16th annual Distinguished Ethnobotanist Lecture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 16th annual Kent-Kew Distinguished Ethnobotanist lecture took place on 20th October, 2015. SAC ethnobotany students and staff travelled to Kew to attend the lecture, along with a large and diverse group of colleagues from London and surrounding areas. This year&#8217;s lecture was given by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.systbot.uzh.ch\/Personen\/ProfessorenundDozenten\/CarolineWeckerle.html\">Dr. Caroline Weckerle<\/a> of the University of Zurich.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Weckerle spoke about the work she has done on incense plants in the Shuiluo Valley, China. The audience was treated to a visually stimulating presentation on the use of various incenses in the Buddhist rituals of this area. Dr. Weckerle also reflected on the role of smoke as a bridge between the material and spiritual worlds.<\/p>\n<p>As always, the winner of the Ethnobotany Prize (awarded each year to the MSc Ethnobotany student with the best distinction) was also announced at the lecture. This year it was awarded to <strong>Margot Neyret<\/strong>, who wrote a fascinating dissertation on the use of plants in health care among Mahgreb migrant women in France.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 16th annual Kent-Kew Distinguished Ethnobotanist lecture took place on 20th October, 2015. SAC ethnobotany students and staff travelled to Kew to attend the lecture, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/2015\/10\/27\/16th-annual-distinguished-ethnobotanist-lecture\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40284,"featured_media":1915,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[92933,124,6600],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1914"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40284"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1914"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1916,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1914\/revisions\/1916"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}