Event overview
A conference organized by the Centre for Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths, University of London
18 + 19 March 2016
This two-day conference will address questions surrounding cultivation, vegetal worlds, global systems and the politics of planting from multiple perspectives, including continental philosophy, postcolonial and decolonial studies, cultural theory, science and activism, as these interweave with ethnobotany, botany, ecocriticism, history, critical legal studies, anthropology and artistic and design practice.
Panels include the legal history of colonialism and cultivation; seed banks, bioprospecting and biopiracy from a legal and political perspective; plant intelligence; global plant histories and human-plant temporalities, from an art/science perspective; and vegetal sensing, bio-indicators and “world-making projects”.
Speakers: Brenna Bhandar, Alain Pottage, Maria Thereza Alves, Elaine Gan, Anthony Trewavas, Jennifer Gabrys, Graham Harwood & Fran Gallardo
Chaired by Matthew Fuller and Shela Sheikh (Centre for Cultural Studies)
Full information, including programme and speaker biographies, at https://cultivationconference.wordpress.com
Image: Elaine Gan, Oscillation and Invasion: Layered Temporalities of the Mekong (2016). Photos: Mekong delta 2011 by Wanda Acosta; rice seedlings (Oryza sativa) at IRRI Los Baños 2010 by Elaine Gan; Mekong water hyacinth (Eichhornia crassipes) by Ted Center/USDA; giant Mekong catfish (Pangasianadon gigas) 2014 by Lynn Chan.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
|---|---|---|
| 18 Mar 2016 | 10:30am - 6:30pm |
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