Plants, People and Projects |
Natasha Myers, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, York University | Planthroposcenes | Le Ravissement de Darwin: Le Language Des Plantes | Involutionary Momentum | Sensing Botanical Sensoria | Edenic Apocalypse meets Gardens Against Eden | Becoming Sensor | Indigenous Land Stewardship Circle |
Energy Working Group, York University | Biofuels | Photosynthesis | Waste Energy Recycling | Low frequency radiation | Uranium Mining | Forest biomass |
Dr. Astrid Schrader, Exeter University, UK (PCS Postdoc 2012-2013) | Marine microorganisms | Harmful algal blooms | Temporality & Responsivity |
Dr. Carla Hustak, University of Toronto, (PCS Postdoc 2010-2012) | Plant encounters | Affective Ecologies | Involutionary Momentum |
Duygu Kasdogan, PhD (2017), Science and Technology Studies, York University | Dissertation: “Potentiating Algae, Modernizing Bioeconomics: Algal Biofuels, Bioenergy Economies, and Built Ecologies in the United States and Turkey” | Energy Working Group |
Kelly Ladd, PhD Candidate, Science and Technology Studies, York University | Sensory anthropology | Energetic toxicities | Sensitives | Low frequency radiation | Energy Working Group |
Jessica Caporusso, PhD Candidate, Department of Anthropology, York University | Political ecologies of sugar cane | Residues & Discards | Sensory anthropology | Energy Working Group |
Stephanie Creighton, PhD Student, Anthropology, York University | Energy Policy | Future-making Practices | Energy Working Group |
Cameron Butler, PhD Student, Anthropology, York University | Circulations of Phosphorous | Land | Cultivation | Production | Energy Working Group |
André Williams, PhD Student, STS, York University | NatureCultures | Urban Natures | Urban Planning and Policy |
Kristi Onzik, PhD Candidate, UC Davis | Plant Neurobiology & Plant Bioacoustics | Ecologies of Practices | Cosmopolitics |
Charis Boke, PhD (Cornell, 2018) | Anthropology | Medical herbalism | Plant knowledge |
Xan Chacko, PhD (UCDavis, 2018) | Anthropology | History of Science | Seed Banks |
Heather Cruickshank, MA, Department of Anthropology (PCS MA Student 2010-2011) | Carnivorous plants | Vermaculture |
Andrew Schuldt, PhD Geography, University of British Columbia (PSC MA Student 2010-2011) | Honey crisp apples | The electric grid | Biofuels | Energy Working Group |
Artists | |
Ayelen Liberona | Becoming Sensor | Indigenous Land Stewardship Circle |
Amanda White, PhD | Plant Art | Sculpture & Installation |
Nicole Clouston, PhD | Sculptures of the Ineffable | Bioart | The Microbial Sublime |
Alexandra Gelis, (PhD Candidate, Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change, YorkU) | Media, installation, photography, interactive electronics | Plants & Ecology in Latin America |
Advocacy and Activism | |
Indigenous Land Stewardship Circle | Fundraising and communications support for this collective of Elders, knowledge keepers, community members and leaders who are fulfilling their sacred and treaty responsibilities to steward the ancient oak savannahs of Toronto’s High Park |