No post this week, as I’m in the midst of prepping for two conference presentations. The first will take place this Friday and Saturday.
My presentation will come on Saturday as part of a panel discussion about the Plant Humanities:
As the Centre for Climate Change and Sustainability embarks on a project to create an archive of an Indian Plant Humanities, it turns towards some of the most interesting scholars in the field for direction, a sense of a history of the discipline, the archives, the possibilities and expectations, both from scholars and the field itself. What is the Plant Humanities, what is its potential, its necessity and its implication in the world today? Our speakers will introduce us to various vocabularies of thought and action, and suggest and show, through their own work, how that might help us to think about plant life beyond the botanical and beyond the hierarchies of what has come to be called the ‘non-human’.
Saturday’s conversations (register here) get started at 6:00 pm IST, 7:30 am EST.
I’ll pick up with writing in two weeks.