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Drawing from indigenous, cross-cultural, and Western knowledge traditions, artists, academics, designers, urban planners, farmers, botanists, and herbalists​ will share their perspectives on the entwined lives of humans, plants, and other life forms in urban New England.

Hosts

Sam Coren, PhD Student, Department of American Studies, Brown University

Aja Grande, PhD Student, Department of History, Anthropology, Science, Technology & Society (HASTS), MIT

Alexandra M. Peck, PhD Candidate, Department of Anthropology, Brown University

Grounds Acknowledgement

Dawn Dove, Narragansett / Niantic Elder, educator, and Traditional knowledge keeper

Plenary

Elizabeth Hoover, Associate Professor of American Studies, Brown University

“‘You are on Indian Land’ (even if it’s paved): Indigenous Foods in Urban Spaces”

Rebecca Uchill, Full-Time Lecturer, Department of Art Education, Art History and Media Studies, UMass Dartmouth

"Reseeding to restoring: Contemporary art, living materials, and conservation culture"

Guides of plant workshop

Lorén Spears, Executive Director, Tomaquag Museum

Myrna Cabán Lezcano, Founder, Flor y Machete; and former Associate Director of Education & Cultural Organizing for The High Line

Christal Whelan, Ph.D., Writer, Educator, and Anthropologist

Panelists

Sakinah Abdur-Rasheed, Natural Health Consultant, Community Health Worker

Sue AnderBois, Director of Food Strategy, City of Providence

Brian Byrnes, Deputy Superintendent of Parks and Recreation, City of Providence

Keely Curliss, Nipmuc Farmer, Brookwood Community Farm Youth Development Specialist, Root Crew, Greater Boston

Julius Kolawole, President and Co-Founder of African Alliance of Rhode Island (AARI)

Myrna Cabán Lezcano, Associate Director of Education and Cultural Organizing, The High Line

Research Panelists

Discussants: Alexandra M. Peck and Sam Lash

Dee Walls, Brown University M.A. Student in Integrative Studies

Eric Sepenoski, Northeastern University Ph.D. Candidate in Rhetoric and Composition

Seth Pilotte, University of Rhode Island Masters of Environmental Science Student with a specialization in Environmental Planning and Design and Facilities Coordinator at University of Rhode Island Narragansett Bay Campus

Sefra Alexandra, The Seed Huntress, an Endurance Race Ethnobotanist

Odin Waters, Active Writer; former Rhode Island College M.A. in Creative Writing Student

David Herrera, Brown University Ph.D. Student in Political Science

Hyunseok An, Rhode Island School of Design Masters in Industrial Design Student

Lauren Kim, Yale University M.S. Environmental Studies and Urban Studies Student

Mariel Collard Arias, Harvard Masters in Landscape Architecture and Design Studies (Risk and Resilience) Student, Harvard Graduate School of Design Research Associate

Reading

Student inmate compositions from Kate Lacouture's Garden Time program at Men's Maximum Security Facility in Cranston, Rhode Island

Art at Watson

Arts and Culture

ReSeeding the City is generously supported in part by the Cogut Institute for the Humanities, Brown University; the Department of American Studies, Brown University; Providence Biennial for Contemporary Art; Providence ¡CityArts! for Youth; Providence Tourism Council; Rhode Island Council for the Humanities; Rhode Island State Council for the Arts; Rhode Island Wild Plant Society; the Native American and Indigenous Studies Initiative, Brown University; and the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, Brown University.

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