Land as Archive: Natural and Human Histories of the New York Botanical Garden

Format

Residential

Location

Bronx, New York

Dates

July 6 - 13, 2025 or July 21 - 27, 2025

Length

1 week

Type

Professional Development Program

Professional Development Program Type

Landmarks

Professional Development Program Audience

Higher Education Faculty

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Contact

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718-817-8700

"Land as Archive: Natural and Human Histories of the New York Botanical Garden" consists of two one-week workshops hosted by the Humanities Institute at the New York Botanical Garden (NYBG). NYBG will be a case study to better appreciate deep history (placing human experience in nature’s context) and humanities inquiry in an interdisciplinary context. Each workshop will host 20 Humanities scholars and professionals who want to integrate scientific and Traditional Ecological Knowledge, environmental humanities, and archives into their place-based research and teaching. Activities include lectures, tours of the Bronx River, and a plant-pressing workshop in a community garden, among others.

Project Director(s)

Lucas Mertehikian; Eric Sanderson

Lecturers and Visiting Faculty

Lucas Mertehikian; Eric Sanderson; Lucinda Royte; Rhonda Evans; Emily Sessa; Todd Forrest; Audrey Jenkins; Matthew Pace; Sheryll Durrant; Ashanti Shih; Evan Pritchard; Klaus Jacob; Ian Fowler; Stephen Sinon