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SUMMARY: People and Plants: Material and Immaterial Transactions - Speaker
  to be confirmed
DTSTART:20140626T080000Z
DTEND:20140626T170000Z
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CONTACT:Speaker to be confirmed
DESCRIPTION:http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25027\nPlants have moved wi
 th people across the globe in extensive trans-regional flows that are prog
 ressively uncovered in greater detail due to technological advances across
  disciplines. Flows of plants\, from local to intercontinental exchanges\,
  have always been accompanied with transactions and cultural translations 
 on human\, cultural\, intellectual\, political and economic levels. These 
 exchanges have often been conditioned by the interests of those who govern
  exchange across areas and they have contributed to shape perceptions of p
 lants and their uses through history.\n\nThis conference addresses issues 
 related to the value socially conferred to plants as resources that are bo
 th material and immaterial.  With plants\, bundles of ecological knowledge
 \, know-how on propagation and cultivation\, novel uses and also important
  understandings about human physiology and therapeutic applications are pa
 ssed on and transformed along the way. This can be traced in the past and 
 is of interest not just to scholars but also for analyzing and addressing 
 the dissemination of seeds\, the complex continuum from wild species to cu
 ltivars\, the adaptation of plants to changing climates and diversificatio
 n of species across continents. An interdisciplinary grasp of demand and s
 upply for plant products in space and time can throw light on novel forms 
 of commodification and commercialisation as well as on conservation progra
 mmes.
LOCATION:Scott Polar Research Institute
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