SINOFLORISTICS brings together Chinese studies with the emerging subfield of plant humanities. Through nine papers spanning the Song dynasty to the present day, this workshop will be an interdisciplinary exploration of what it means to take plants as an organizing focus in the study of Chinese culture.
Conference Schedule:
Saturday, May 24th, 9 am to 12:15 pm
Huijun Mai (University of California, Los Angeles), A Hundred Faces of the Flowering Plum
Ruiying Gao (Wake Forest University), Collating Nature: Illustrated Materia Medica Books in Ming China
Kathleen Ryor (Carleton College), Broad Beans, Dandelions, and Prince's Feather: Representing Common Garden Plants in Ming China
Saturday, May 24th, 1:15–5:00 pm
Jose Canton–Alvarez (London School of Economics), "A Killing Blade": Changing Perceptions on the Opium Poppy in Yuan-Dynasty China
Alison Hardie (Leeds University), The Mysterious Case of the Chusan Palm
Meimei Zhang (Occidental College), Thinking with the Tropical Plant: The Agency of Baijiao in Chinese Multi-Sensory Experiences
Natasha Heller (University of Virginia), Laying on Limbs: Coniferous Agency in Buddhist Texts
Sunday, May 25th, 9 am to 12 pm:
Iping Liang (National Taiwan Normal University), Oriental Beauty: Tea, Gender, and Ecofeminism in Jade Chen's The Merry Leaf
Winnie Wong (University of California, Berkeley), Parallel Botany, Parallel China
**General response byYota Batsaki (Dumbarton Oaks)
Please register here to attend. Please contact Professor Natasha Heller for more information: [email protected]
