Yale Plant Humanities Symposium (congrès)
Le samedi 8 avril 2023 a lieu le symposium « Plant Hunanities » à Humanities Quad L02 (320 York Street), exclusivement en présentiel (inscription obligatoire via l’adresse hannah.cole@yale.edu). Il est organisé par Hannah Rachel Cole (Environmental Humanities Program and Center for the Study of Race, Indigeneity, and Transnational Migration).
Argumentaire
Human history is inextricably entwined with the histories of plants which have acted variously as co-creators of landscapes; agents of photosynthesis; sources of nourishment, healing, transcendence, and poisoning; adaptable participants in multispecies ecosystems; and central figures in human symbolic logics. Yet all too often, humans can fall prey to what Wandersee and Schussler (1999) have termed “plant blindness,” meaning the inability to recognize the significance of plants at a personal or global scale. The 2023 Plant Humanities Symposium at Yale aims to serve as a corrective to plant blindness by facilitating an interdisciplinary conversation about the relationships of plants to human cultures. Convening a distinguished set of scholars, including representatives of Dumbarton Oaks and the New York Botanical Garden Humanities Institute, the symposium will explore strategies for traversing the divide between the humanities and natural sciences to reach more holistic understandings of plant-human relations.
Programme
Samedi 8 avril 2023
Humanities Quad 134 320 York Street
8h45 : petit déjeuner
9h15-9h25 : Opening remarks
9h30-11h00 : Panel 1
Roundtable: Experimental Approaches to Plant Humanities
Modérateur : Lucas Mertehikian (Dumbarton Oaks)
Participants : Yota Batsaki (Dumbarton Oaks), Matthew Battles (Harvard University), Vanessa Sellers (New York Botanical Garden), Rosetta S. Elkin (Pratt Institute)
11h15-12h45 : Panel 2
Indigeneity, Migration, and Empire
Modératrice : Hannah Rachel Cole (RITM and Environmental Humanities, Yale University)
« Nut Pine and the Art of Flourishing in the Anthropocene » par Paul Burow (Yale University)
« Listening for the Olive Trees’ Jazz: For an Indigenous Ecopoetics in the Works of Samira Negrouche » par Abigail Fields (Yale University)
« ‘A Good Thing Spring Up’: The Breadfruit’s Complex Caribbean Story, Empire and After » par Elaine Savory (New School)
12h45-13h45 : déjeuner
13h45-15h15 : Panel 3
Lively Plants, Flourishing Plants
Modératrice : Camila Marcone (Medieval Studies, Yale University)
« Imagining Plant Lives: Erasmus Darwin and John Clare » par Jill Campbell (Yale University)
« Communicating with Plants: Adventures in Phytosemiosis » par Randy Laist (Goodwin University)
« The Quiet Science? Borges’ Anti-Botany » par Lucas Mertehikian (Dumbarton Oaks)
« Outlines of a Natural Philosophical Evolutionary Account of Plant Flourishing » par Oswald Schmitz (Yale University)
15h30-17h : Panel 4
New York Botanical Garden Humanities Institute Panel
Modératrice : Kassidi Jones (English, Yale University)
Participants : Claire Bunschoten (NYBG Mellon Research Fellow in Food Humanities), Nailah Garard (NYBG Mellon Summer Research Intern in Oral Histories), Audrey Jenkins (NYBG Mellon Research Fellow in Food Humanities), Samrah Shoaib (NYBG Humanities Institute Program Manager)
17h-18h30 : réception