Tuesday, 16 June 2026, 12pm to 1.30pm
This interdisciplinary workshop discusses humanities approaches to plant knowledge, in the past and the present. Speakers will share the methodologies they use to research and disseminate knowledge about plants.
June Bam will discuss deep-time knowledge of the Cape Khoi-San 'Ausi' of landscape and changes, and what the interconnected global migration of 'Ausi' plants tells us about the past and the present. Lauren Daly will outline how the Oxford Botanic Garden and Arboretum tackles 'plant blindness' through interdisciplinary storytelling. Madeline White will share details of her BLOOM digital humanities project, which reconstructs historic plant material while translating archival material between science and the humanities. Tara Inniss will discuss her work using ethnobotany for the history of Barbados. Shailendra Bhandare will provide insight into curating the Ashmolean Museum's In Bloom exhibition.
This event is supported by the Oxford Centre for the History of Science, Medicine and Technology.
Speaker(s): June Bam (University of Johannesburg), Shailendra Bhandare (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford), Tara Inniss (University of the West Indies), Madeline White (Northwestern University)
Venue:
Schwarzman Centre - Room 00.063
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Room 00.063 Schwarzman Centre Radcliffe Observatory Quarter, Woodstock Road Oxford Oxfordshire OX2 6GG United Kingdom
Host: The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities
Register here: https://tinyurl.com/54esjx6c
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Free to attend but registration is required.