The Healing Properties of Plants: Art, Culture, Science
Sunday, June 26, 2016
2 – 4 p.m.
The Humanities Institute is hosting a Winter Colloquium in collaboration with The New York Academy of Medicine. The colloquia will bring together students and teachers from a wide variety of interdisciplinary backgrounds to discuss medicinal plants and their intersection with art, culture, and science. Several NYBG botanists, researchers, and current Visiting Scholars at the Humanities Institute, will join the conversation as well as students and professors from surrounding academic institutions, including Fordham University, Columbia University, Bard Graduate Center, Montefiore Medical Center, among others.
The colloquia will be followed by light refreshments in the Mertz Library’s Rotunda, a viewing of the exhibition Flora Illustrata: A Celebration of Botanical Masterworks, and an in-depth tour of the exhibition Wild Medicine in the Tropics in the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory.
The Humanities Institute hosts quarterly colloquia to engage young scholars and scientists from different interdisciplinary backgrounds to promote the discussion of environmental humanities and its influence on today’s urban living experience. Learn more about past colloquia on NYBG’s Blog, Plant Talk.
Registration is now closed.