Plant Humanities and Botanical Collections

International Workshop

15 aprile 2024, h. 9.15 - 17.30

Botanical Museum, University of Padua, via Orto Botanico, 15, Padova

Organizer: Elena Canadelli 

Programme

Morning session

Chair: Elena Canadelli

9.15 Greetings

9.30 Felix Driver (University of London), Plant humanities and interdisciplinary collections-based research

10.00 Elena Canadelli (University of Padua), History of science in the garden between research and dissemination: designing the Botanical Museum of Padova

10.30 Break

11.00 Luciana Martins (University of London), Reacitivating the biocultural archive: the case of the Spruce collection

11.30 Tiziana Beltrame (University of Padua), The cecidological herbarium as a boundary collection: interspecies relationships for thinking about biodiversity

12.00 Lunch

Afternoon session

Chair: Felix Driver

14.30 Luca Tonetti (University of Padua), An early database for cecidology: Alessandro Trotter's Sinossi as a research tool between herbaria and printed sources

15.00 Diego Molina (University of London), Beyond taxonomy: botanical encounters in herbaria and archives

15.30 Break

16.00 Claudia Addabbo (University of Padua), The Algae Herbarium of Achille Forti (1878-1937): mobility and circulation of a botanic collection

16.30 Yota Batsaki (Harvard University), Final remarks

17.00 General discussion