Lectures
Throughout the year, NYBG Adult Education offers lectures in which outstanding landscape architects and designers present their signature works and insights, and internationally recognized speakers address topics of global interest related to the study, preservation, and appreciation of the plant kingdom.
May
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In the Shadow of Slavery: Africa's Food Legacy in the Atlantic World - ONLINEThis lecture will take place online. Registered students will receive login instructions.Much of Professor Judith Carney's groundbreaking research focuses on African contributions to New World agriculture and ecology. In this talk, she shows how enslaved people established more... | |||||
214HRT821O | 05/04 | Tu | 11:00am-12:00pm | Carney | ONLINE |
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Medicine, Knowledge, and Power in the Atlantic Slave Trade - ONLINEThis lecture will take place online. Registered students will receive login instructions.Even as they were brutally forced from their homelands, enslaved Africans brought valuable medical and botanical knowledge with them to the Americas. Professor Carolyn Roberts highlights more... | |||||
214BOT288O | 05/18 | Tu | 11:00am-12:00pm | Roberts | ONLINE |
June
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Finding the Mother Tree: A Conversation with Suzanne Simard - ONLINEThis lecture will take place online. Registered students will receive login instructions.As a pioneer in the field of plant communication, ecologist Suzanne Simard has spent a lifetime rigorously documenting the forests of North America and the Arctic. more... | |||||
214BOT814O | 06/08 | Tu | 11:00am-12:00pm | Simard | ONLINE |