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fabribald.bsky.social
My book review of a nice volume on #plantphilosophy #plantcognition #planthumanities - the volume is edited by Ferretti, Schulte and Wild, Philosophy of Plant Cognition #plantstudies #histsci

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Book Review of Philosophy of Plant Cognition
Rivista di Filosofia
www.academia.edu
September 21, 2026 at 3:21 PM
trichocolea.bsky.social
Yesterday was graduation at Queen Mary. @fmurrayrowlins.bsky.social and I have been very fortunate to be part of the plants and humanities group supervised by @rxcoulton.bsky.social. It has been a wonderful intellectual experience, and also a great deal of fun

#plantHumanities
Three people in academic dress sitting on a bench in a small garden area at Queen Mary University of London. In the centre is Richard Coulton, wearing the red PhD gown of the University of London, and either side of him are his two most recent PhD graduates: Francesca Murray and Brad Scott. They are wearing the blue, black and silver gowns of Queen Mary. Francesca's thesis is titled "Mutual Aid in the Nineteenth Century Gardening Trade: Organisational Responses to Indigent and Elderly Gardeners and their Widows", and Brad's is "Making and Occluding Plant Knowledge in Britain: Hans Sloane (1660–1753), his herbarium, and its afterlives"
July 29, 2026 at 8:44 PM
m-azzolini.bsky.social
The morning of Day 1 of #HSS + #ESHS conference gave a sense of the richness of perspectives: I attended two fabulous panels on #PlantHumanities with leading experts in the field from @dumbartonoaks.bsky.social #ortobotanico #Padova #Edinburgh #botanicgarden #RoyalHolloway #Cambridge
July 13, 2026 at 11:11 AM
sarabpritchard.bsky.social
#PlantHumanities session:
Key idea to methodology is science <-- --> humanities, with ideas legible** to both**.

**This. Is. Often. Very. Hard.
#ESHS-HSS
July 13, 2026 at 8:31 AM
plantspeopleplanet.bsky.social
#Digitization connects scattered specimens and enables new historical research: Plants from the Lady Franklin Bay Expedition (1881–1884)

Brief Report by @jmheberling.bsky.social and Jackson P. Wright

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#LatestIssue #planthumanities #herbarium
The power of digitization extends far beyond the specimens alone.
June 18, 2026 at 11:57 PM
l-teixeiracosta.bsky.social
I'll join the uprising with a talk on "Flipping the parasite spectrum: #PlantHumanities meet eco-physiology".
Stay tuned for a communion among #ParasiticPlant ecology and physiology, literature, and social history!
January 17, 2026 at 10:53 AM
planthums-uk.bsky.social
Check out our @planthums-uk.bsky.social web pages at kew.org/science/inte...
Learn who we are, what we do, and how you can work with us on #PlantHumanities #research @rbgkew.bsky.social @rhulgeography.bsky.social
January 13, 2026 at 9:28 AM
hiddenplantstories.bsky.social
Our book on house plants and plantfever: ‘Plantfever- the World on a windowsill’ is out !Look forward to hearing your thougts on it! #plants #planthumanities bookshop.org/p/books/plan...
Plant Fever: The World on the Windowsill
The World on the Windowsill
bookshop.org
November 23, 2025 at 7:52 AM
whitehorsepress.bsky.social
We've posted a recording of the excellent event 'Plants, Memory, Belonging', co-hosted recently by Oak Spring Garden Foundation and our journal 'Plant Perspectives'. Fascinating presentations and discussion! Check it out here: youtu.be/CssAzff55Q4?... @plantperspectives.bsky.social #planthumanities
Plants, Belonging, Memory
YouTube video by White Horse Press
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October 22, 2025 at 9:36 AM
treeseeker.bsky.social
Check out the new issue of #PlantPerspectives on the #arborealhumanities! Including my own first published paper 🎉
whp-journals.co.uk/PP/index

#envhum
#envhist
#history
#historicalgeography
#planthumanities
#culturalgeography
#RoyalHolloway
#KewGardens
#RGS
#Archives
#treebiographies
Plant Perspectives
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September 29, 2025 at 1:59 PM
planthums-uk.bsky.social
Applications now open @rbgkew.bsky.social for @ahrc2025.bsky.social funded #ECR #FELLOWSHIPS in #CULTURAL & #HERITAGE INSTITUTIONS 2yr fellowships up to £312.5k Contact: planthumanities@kew.org Deadline 10 Dec 2025 ukri.org/opportunity/... #interdisciplinary #plant_humanities #early-career
Treetop Walkway and Temperate House at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew © Board of Trustees, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
September 15, 2025 at 12:27 PM
easlce.bsky.social
#newbook: "Literature and Botany", ed. Joanna Godlewicz-Adamiec, Paweł Piszczatowski, Tomasz Szybisty, Justyna Włodarczyk (Brill, V&R press)

OA and info: www.vandenhoeck-ruprecht-verlage.com/themen-entde...

#envhum #envhist #ecolit #ecocriticism #planthumanities
Literature and Botany
An interdisciplinary exploration of how literature and botany intersect through myth, symbolism, and ecology, reflecting human-plant relationships in cultural and environmental contexts.
www.vandenhoeck-ruprecht-verlage.com
September 12, 2025 at 4:58 AM
treeseeker.bsky.social
#Historicalgeography #HGRG #RGS #planthumanities #envhum #Geography #history #archives
Call out for any events or news in the world of historical geography that you lovely people would like included in the next HGRG newsletter. Only a few days left before the autumn issue is published. Let me know!
September 11, 2025 at 12:08 PM
easlce.bsky.social
#seminar: "Plants, Memory, Belonging", October 8th 2025

Info: www.osgf.org/programs-and...

#ennvhum #ecocriticism #ecolit #planthumanities
Oak Spring Garden Foundation - Plants, Memory, Belonging
Join us for a virtual program exploring the connections between plants, memory, and belonging. Tickets: Free
www.osgf.org
September 10, 2025 at 2:53 PM
drytares1.bsky.social
Worked a little today on my new chapter in my book project on Shakespeare's trees. Thinking through a connection between roots and the heart (in Antony & Cleopatra and Coriolanus)...
#planthumanities #ecocriticism #Shakespeare #trees
July 16, 2025 at 9:27 PM
flannerm.bsky.social
Post from Herbarium World on #coffee and #Planthumanities herbariumworld.wordpress.com/2025/06/16/c... @dumbartonoaks.bsky.social‬
Coffee in Washington, DC
Engraving of Coffea arabica by John Miller, 1774. Wellcome Collection. As I mentioned in the last post, I spent a day in March at Dumbarton Oaks Museum and Library and met with several people inter…
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June 19, 2025 at 9:26 PM
lovschal.bsky.social
Check out this special issue on "plant humanities".
Deadline August 1 2025.

#envhum #planthumanities #envhist #ecolit #ecocriticism
easlce.bsky.social EASLCE @easlce.bsky.social · May 27
#CFP: "Plant Humanities". International Journal of Contemporary Humanities.

Deadline for full articles: August 1, 2025

Full call: www.amkrpub.com/ijch/call_fo...

#envhum #planthumanities #envhist #ecolit #ecocriticism
Poster for the CFP, featuring a a green cell-like blob on a lighter green background.
May 30, 2025 at 7:57 AM
easlce.bsky.social
#CFP: "Plant Humanities". International Journal of Contemporary Humanities.

Deadline for full articles: August 1, 2025

Full call: www.amkrpub.com/ijch/call_fo...

#envhum #planthumanities #envhist #ecolit #ecocriticism
Poster for the CFP, featuring a a green cell-like blob on a lighter green background.
May 27, 2025 at 2:26 PM
flannerm.bsky.social
Day 2, April 28 of my London trip presented to the Kew Gardens the staff on the history & activities of the herbarium at U of South Carolina, by invitation from Caroline Cornish of planthumanities@kew.org, then a visit to the Trees exhibit at the Sherwood Gallery.
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May 22, 2025 at 1:59 PM
flannerm.bsky.social
I'm back from 3 weeks in London, where I had wonderful botanically-oriented adventures, starting with a presentation to the staff at Kew Gardens on the history and activities of the A.C. Moore Herbarium at U of South Carolina, by invitation from Caroline Cornish of planthumanities@kew.org.
May 17, 2025 at 11:34 AM
jessiewhchen.bsky.social
@l-teixeiracosta.bsky.social & I are excited to see many have signed up. There are still seats left, so register if you would like to join us for the #PlantHumanities Colloquium at @meertens-knaw.bsky.social / @huygensknaw.bsky.social, or online!

Register through forms.office.com/e/YUJEB4GzuE.
Banner image for the Plant Humanities KNAW-Huc, featuring an orange daylily in front of a green background. Poster for the Plant Humanities KNAW-HuC. Description on the poster: Plant Humanities has emerged as a convergence point for multiple disciplines interested in the connections between plants and people. Such convergence has the potential to address important questions of today, such as climate change, biodiversity decline, and decolonization of knowledge. This colloquium brings together researchers in Plant Humanities in the Netherlands to showcase the many ways in which people have related to plants in the past and present. Program: 10:15–10:30, Check-in and Coffee; 10:30–11:00, Welcome and Short Introduction; 11:00–11:30, Becoming Global? Practices of Collecting, Naming and Exchanging Seeds in Early Modern Botany by Melinda Susanto (Huygens Instituut / KNAW); 11:30–12:00, Plants that Adorn and Construct Social Bodies: Body Ornaments in the Amazon Region by Caroline Fernandes Caromano (Naturalis Biodiversity Center), 12:00–13:30, Lunch; 13:30–14:00, Wild Tulips in Historical Dutch Gardens: Where Do They Come From? by Anastasia Stefanaki (Utrecht University Botanic Gardens); 14:00–14:30, Picturing and Representing Plants in the Past: Materials, Techniques, and Artisanal Knowledge by Jessie Wei-Hsuan Chen (Huygens Instituut / KNAW); 14:30–15:00, Plants, People, and Cities: From Sao Paulo, Brazil to Amsterdam, Netherlands by Luiza Teixeira-Costa (Meertens Instituut / KNAW); 15:00–16:00, Discussion and moving forward; 16:00–17:00, Drinks. Additional info: Seats are limited and offered on a first-come, first-served basis; Register before 9 May to receive the link to the live streaming; This event will not be recorded.
May 1, 2025 at 1:27 PM
treeseeker.bsky.social
#NewBook Looking forward to delving into this... #trees #planthistory #culture #ecology #planthumanities
April 26, 2025 at 5:43 PM
jessiewhchen.bsky.social
Want to learn more about the exciting research in #PlantHumanities in the Netherlands? Then join us on 13 May at the Spinhuis in Amsterdam or online!

Register through forms.office.com/e/YUJEB4GzuE before 9 May. Please share!
Poster for the Plant Humanities KNAW-HuC. Description on the poster: Plant Humanities has emerged as a convergence point for multiple disciplines interested in the connections between plants and people. Such convergence has the potential to address important questions of today, such as climate change, biodiversity decline, and decolonization of knowledge. This colloquium brings together researchers in Plant Humanities in the Netherlands to showcase the many ways in which people have related to plants in the past and present. Program: 10:15–10:30, Check-in and Coffee; 10:30–11:00, Welcome and Short Introduction; 11:00–11:30, Becoming Global? Practices of Collecting, Naming and Exchanging Seeds in Early Modern Botany by Melinda Susanto (Huygens Instituut / KNAW); 11:30–12:00, Plants that Adorn and Construct Social Bodies: Body Ornaments in the Amazon Region by Caroline Fernandes Caromano (Naturalis Biodiversity Center), 12:00–13:30, Lunch; 13:30–14:00, Wild Tulips in Historical Dutch Gardens: Where Do They Come From? by Anastasia Stefanaki (Utrecht University Botanic Gardens); 14:00–14:30, Picturing and Representing Plants in the Past: Materials, Techniques, and Artisanal Knowledge by Jessie Wei-Hsuan Chen (Huygens Instituut / KNAW); 14:30–15:00, Plants, People, and Cities: From Sao Paulo, Brazil to Amsterdam, Netherlands by Luiza Teixeira-Costa (Meertens Instituut / KNAW); 15:00–16:00, Discussion and moving forward; 16:00–17:00, Drinks. Additional info: Seats are limited and offered on a first-come, first-served basis; Register before 9 May to receive the link to the live streaming; This event will not be recorded.
April 24, 2025 at 1:15 PM
l-teixeiracosta.bsky.social
🚨 Calling all #PlantHumanities enthusiasts!

Are you interested in multiple connections between plants and people? Then you're more than welcome to join us on 13 May 2025, in person or online, for our first colloquium at the @meertens-knaw.bsky.social.

Register at: forms.office.com/e/YUJEB4GzuE
April 23, 2025 at 3:40 PM
l-teixeiracosta.bsky.social
Playing "spot the difference" while analyzing original and final published versions of the illustrations included in the Flora Batava series.

What is the Flora Batava, you ask? Find out here: historical-citizen-botany.github.io/website/

#PlantHumanities #HistoricalBotany
Photo of an academic researcher analyzing an old book containing illustrations of plants. The researcher is in a room where other illustrations and paintings are displayed in the background. The book is placed on top of a large cushion and opened in a page showing drawings of yellow-flowered herbs. The researcher is a woman with long hair, dressed in black, and gazing at the book with her head low.
April 16, 2025 at 2:14 PM