Please join us for the next meeting of the Environmental Humanities working group, supported by the Levan Institute for the Humanities, on Wednesday, March 30, 2022, from 12 noon to 1pm Pacific.

The theme for our meeting will be Plant Studies and Feminist Technoscience, with reaadings chosen by Daisy Reid, Comparative Literature, USC Dornsife.

Please read the following pieces, available through USC Libraries or directly online, before our meeting.

"Introduction: To Encounter the Plants" (From Plant-Thinking: A Philosophy of Vegetal Life by Michael Marder, 2013). Link

"Introduction" (From The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World by Michael Pollan, 2002). Link

"The Gift of Strawberries" (From Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer, 2013). NOTE: We also encourage attendees to read the preface, which is just three paragraphs long. Link