The Ethnobotany Webinars from ABC and the Sustainable Herbs Program will explore themes of plants, people, and commerce through the lens of ethnobotany.
Below are upcoming webinars as well as recordings of all previous webinars. If you prefer to listen by audio, we also have created a podcast and will be uploading all of these recordings there as well.
UPCOMING WEBINARS
We are thrilled to be hosting another series of webinars on ethnobotany.
Partnerships in Sourcing Australian Sandalwood: A Conversation with Clinton Farmer, current Chairman of Kutkabbuba Aboriginal Corporation and Keith Drage, Managing Director of WA Sandalwood Plantations
“Dutjahn is more than a sacred plant to the Martu and Wongi Nations, it is part of our soul and a key link to our spiritual identity.”
— Darren Farmer, Chairman of Dutjahn Custodians, Owner – Dutjahn Sandalwood Oils
NOTE time. The webinar will be live at this time to accommodate the time difference between the US and Australia. We will share the recording with registered participants.
Cross-Cultural Understandings of Traditional Herbal Knowledge: A Conversation with Ruyu Yao
Jan. 20, 9 am ET
Registration coming soon.
PREVIOUS WEBINARS
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Michael Heinrich, PhD, and Anthony Booker, PhD, discuss their research investigating the quality of botanical ingredients and herbal medicinal products along diverse value chains.
Michael J. Balick, PhD, and Paul Alan Cox, PhD, share stories of their fieldwork in remote villages around the world and discuss the ways our past and our future are deeply intertwined with plants.
Claudia Ford, PhD discusses her research into the uses of cotton and black haw to control pregnancy by African slaves and plantation owners in the American South in the 1800s.
Wade Davis, PhD, discusses the importance of culture in understanding ethnobotany, the links between cultural and biological diversity, and what is at stake with the erosion of this diversity.
Nancy Turner (PhD) and Leigh Joseph (Squamish First Nation) discuss the role of values in Indigenous knowledge systems and how these values guide cultural interrelationships with medicinal plants.
Mark Plotkin, PhD talks about his work with the Amazon Conservation Team (ACT) working with indigenous colleagues to protect nature and culture in the Amazon.
Dr Cassandra Quave speaks about her personal experiences with disability, her research into how plants and microbes interact, and her search to find plant alternatives to antibiotics.
Steven King, PhD, discusses his work creating a sustainable harvesting program for Croton lechleri (the source of Crofelemer) for use in Crofelemer, the first oral botanical drug approved by the US FDA.
