ReSeeding the City: Ethnobotany in the Urban
Event Information
Description
FOR THE FULL DAY ITINERARY, VISIT THE PROVIDENCE BIENNIAL HERE.
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
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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