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Sunday, June 3, 2018 9:00am-4:00pm Society for Economic Botany Council Inn Wisconsin Meeting 9:00am-12:00pm Society of Ethnobiology Committee and Profile Editorial Board Meetings 8:00am-1:00pm Optional Pre-Conference Field Trip: Late Buses Depart Woodland and Mississippian Archaeology at promptly at 8am Aztalan from Ogg Hall dorm. 8:00am-2:30pm Optional Pre-Conference Field Trip: Buses Depart Fermentation Tour promptly at 8am from Ogg Hall dorm. 1:00-5:00pm Optional Pre-Conference Field Trip: Buses Depart University of Wisconsin-Madison Arboretum promptly at 1 pm from Ogg Hall dorm. 1:00-5:00pm Society of Ethnobiology Board Meeting Profile 5:00-8:00pm Registration Table Room TBA 6:30-8:30pm Welcome Reception with Ho-Chunk Cultural Tripp Commons Event Key + = Morton Award Applicant ^ = Fulling Award Applicant *= Barbara Lawrence Award Applicant Monday, June 4 Plenary Session: Indigenous Food Sovereignty 8:30am-12:00pm Room: Great Hall 8:30-9:00 Valerie Segrest, Muckleshoot Food Sovereignty in the Muckleshoot Tribe Pacific Northwest 9:00-9:30 Katlyn Scholl International Frameworks for Germplasm Exchange: An Introduction to the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture 9:30-10:00 Seed Keepers and Indigenous Seed Rowen White, Sovereignty Akwesasne Mohawk 10:00-10:25am Coffee Break 10:30-11:00 Understanding Indigenous Foodways to Sean Sherman, Oglala Rebuild Health and Integrity within Lakota Indigenous Communities 11:00-11:30 The US National Plant Germplasm Candice Gardner System Maize Collection – Status, Utilization and Possibilities 11:30-12:00 Discussion Lunch (on your own) 12:00-1:00pm Concurrent Sessions - Block A Monday 1:00-2:30pm Session 1: Quality of Life, Wellbeing, & Food Security: Theories, Methods, & Practical Approaches (1) Session Chair: Theresa Miller Room: TBA Cultivating Well-being, Securing Place: Refugee 1:00-1:15 Alaka Wali and Immigrant Gardeners in Chicago Araceli Aguilar- Mexican chiles (Capsicum annuum L.) as identity 1:15-1:30 Melendez markers and possible strategies for conservation The Shifting Place of Wild Foods for Food Security and Cultural Identity in Rural and Tribal Communities of Montana in the Context of Global 1:30-1:45 Erin Mae Smith^ Environmental Change Eugene 1:45-2:00 Anderson Sixty Years of Ethnobiology Participatory Ethnobotany for Land, Medicine and Food Sovereignty with indigenous Communities in 2:00-2:15 Laura Monti arid and tropical environments of Sonora, Mexico 2:15-2:30 DISCUSSION Session 2: Biocultural Diversity: Past, Present and for Future Conservation Session Chair: Robert Bye Room: TBA “Quelites: sabores y saberes” – the contribution of traditional knowledge to food security and sovereignty of spontaneous 1:00-1:15 Robert Bye vegetables in southeastern State of Mexico Conservation Status of North American Crop 1:15-1:30 Anne Frances Wild Relatives Labor organization and taphonomy at 1:30-1:45 Nathaniel James Harappa Biocultural conservation of a wild harvested Georgia herb, Xerophyllum tenax (Melanthiaceae) in 1:45-2:00 Fredeluces^ the Pacific Northwest, U.S.A 2:00-2:15 Leslie Main Milkst/Molks Pacific Crabapple, an Indigenous Johnson orchard tree Tracing Ancient Healing Practices In China 2:15-2:30 Lyn M. Tackett and Egypt Through The Hibiscus Session 3: Traditional Knowledge & Food (1) Session Chair: Ashley Blazina Room: TBA Ratemo The Economic Importance of Weed Species as Nutritious 1:00-1:15 Michieka Indigenous Vegetables What does the absence of informant agreement tell us 1:15-1:30 Diana Quiroz about medicinal plant knowledge? Ashley J. Flipping the Script: Experiences in developing a research 1:30-1:45 Blazina methodology that questions the other narrative We've been studied to death: addressing research fatigue 1:45-2:00 Ann Biddle^ among the Ahtna in Alaska Only Pick as Much as You Need: Harvesting Traditions 2:00-2:15 Annie Evans and Customary Law in Makkovik Carlos E.A. Ora-pro-nóbis or “pray for us”: Ethnobiology of leafy 2:15-2:30 Coimbra Jr Pereskia cacti, a neglected food source in Brazil Concurrent Sessions - Block B Monday 3:00-4:45pm Session 1: Hunting, Fishing, & Harvesting Session Chair: Darcy Matthews Room: TBA Al Keali'i Hawaii: From the Ocean towards the Mountain: Self- 3:00-3:15 Chock sufficiency through Fish Ponds & Taro Patches Stone Fishtrap Archaeology: People, Stone, and Salmon at Darcy the Heiltsuk Village of Hauyat, Central Coast of British 3:15-3:30 Mathews Columbia Ebba “Man the hunter” and “woman the invisible”- changing 3:30-3:45 Olofsson gender roles in Indigenous economies Molly Re-Visiting Bulb Size as a Proxy for Camas (Camassia 3:45-4:00 Carney ssp.) Management in the Pacific Northwest Richard S. Report on Ongoing Research on Plants Used as 4:00-4:15 Tan Condiments in Mexico DISCUSSIO 4:15-4:30 N Session 2: Ethnobotany (1) Session Chair: Alex McAlvay Room: TBA Out of Turnips: Reconstructing the domestication 3:00-3:15 Alex McAlvay history of Brassica rapa crops in Eurasia 3:15-3:30 Anna Dixon Making Your Mark: Tattooing Plants and Identity 3:30-3:45 Donald Hazlett Honduran Plants You Must Talk to or Else.. Effect of Brewery Effluent on the Anatomical and Dr. Folorunso Morphological Structure of Talinum triangulare 3:45-4:00 Abayomi Ezekiel (Jacq) Willd 4:00-4:15 Gail E. Wagner Conflicted Understanding of Vegetable 4:15-4:30 DISCUSSION Session 3: African Ethnobiology (1) Session Chair: Jen Shaffer Room: TBA Joyce Manoti Antimicrobial activity of some plants used in 3:00-3:15 Ondicho Kenya for management of infectious diseases Safe Passage: Conservation and the Role of 3:15-3:30 L. Jen Shaffer Culture in the African Vulture Trade The ethnobotany of the Amandawe, KwaZulu- 3:30-3:45 Lloyd Mhlongo^ Natal, South Africa Oyewole In-vitro anti-radical and anti-microbial activities Oluwaseun of eight commonly used chewing sticks in 3:45-4:00 Theresa Nigeria Role of Traditional Food Recipes in Improving the Utilization of Spider Plant (Cleome 4:00-4:15 Ruth Kagai Adeka gynandra) in Kenya Indigenous cosmetic plants in the Eastern Wilfred Otang Cape Province of South Africa: A case of skin 4:15-4:30 Mbeng care Olubunmi Ethno-Gynaeacological Knowledge and Josephine Preliminary Phytochemical Screenings of 4:30-4:45 Sharaibi^ Medicinal Plants Used in Lagos State, Nigeria SoE General Membership Meeting 5:00-6:00 pm Room: Great Hall Student Social & Networking Event 7:30pm -- Room: Lakeside Terrace of Memorial Union Tuesday, June 5 Distinguished Economic Botanist Awardee 8:15-9:15 Concurrent Sessions 9:15 - 10:00am Session 1: African Ethnobiology Session Chair: TBD Room: TBA Ben-Erik Van A review of ethnobotanical studies in southern Africa 9:15-9:30 Wyk (1685 to 2017) East and Central African medicinal plants as Fabien inflammatory inhibitors in the 15-LOX / 15- 9:30-9:45 Schultz^ Hydroxyeicosatetraenoic acid and COX / PGH2 pathways Isabel Margaret An inventory and analysis of medicinal plant use in the 9:45-10:00 Hulley Little Karoo, South Africa Session 2: Ethnobotany Session Chair: TBD Room: TBA Re-Planting the Seeds of Indigenous Science in Jennifer Australia: Directions in Australian Ethnobotany and 9:15-9:30 Dearnaley Traditional Knowledge Theory and practice in the field work of Richard Spruce, 9:30-9:45 Mark Nesbitt pioneer ethnobotanist of the Amazon rainforest Carurú;: The Enigmatic Origin of Brazil’s Signature Afro- 9:45-10:00 Robert Voeks Brazilian Dish Session 3: Traditional Knowledge & Food Session Chair: Kelly Kindscher Room: TBA Dynamic ecological knowledge systems amid changing place and climate: Mt. Yulong 9:15-9:30 Robbie Hart rhododendrons 9:30-9:45 Saowalak Bunma Traditional Food from Sesbania (Fabaceae) 9:45-10:00 Kelly Kindscher Sahnish (Arikara) Ethnobotany Concurrent Sessions - Block C Tuesday, 10:30-12:00pm Session 1: How to Teach Ethnobotany Painlessly Session Chair: Al Keali’i Chock Room: TBA Sunshine L. Sharing of Teaching Resources: The Open Science 10:30-10:45 Brosi Network and Beyond Cassandra 10:45-11:00 Quave Innovative Strategies for Teaching in the Plant Sciences 11:00-11:15 Kim Bridges The Flipped Classroom Gail E. 11:15-11:30 Wagner Teaching Ethnobotanical Ethnography Al Keali'i 11:30-11:45 Chock My Plant Family & Those Botanical Terms DISCUSSIO 11:45-12:00 N Session 2: Global Change/Global Health: Integrating Traditional Knowledges with Science in Response to Changing Human-Environment Relationships Session Chairs: Liz Olson & Cissy Fowler Room: TBA Ethnobiology and the hope for sustainable cotton 10:30-10:45 Andrew Flachs agriculture in Telangana, India The rebirth of traditional bamboo weaving in 10:45-11:00 Binsheng Luo^ Sansui, Southwest China A traditional medicinal plant regimen from Southern 11:00-11:15 Ian Tietjen Africa that targets HIV Embodying Ecologies: Considering Healthy Lives 11:15-11:30 Kristina Baines through Persistence and Change Introduced vegetables overwhelm traditional 11:30-11:45 Junko Kitagawa mountain herbs in Japan today Ethnobotanicals and Psychological Ownership of Sofia M. the Landscape: A Case Study in Periurban 11:45-12:00 Penabaz-Wiley Matsudo, Japan Session 3: Quality of Life, Wellbeing, & Food Security: Theories, Methods, & Practical Approaches (2) Session Chair: Theresa Miller Room: TBA 10:30-10:45 Maia Dedrick Food Security among Colonial Maya Migrants Marilyn Faulkner & Erica Gardens of Labrador: Tending plants in the “Land 10:45-11:00 Oberndorfer^ God Gave to Cain” Peppers and People in Micronesia: Spice, 11:00-11:15 Mark D Merlin Medicine and Food Security Food security and sovereignty in the Sierra Tarahumara, Chihuahua, Mexico –
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