Environment Seminar Series: Plant Archives and Proxies for Justice with Jayson Maurice Porter

When and Where
Friday, February 28, 2025 12:00 pm to 2:00 pm
Speakers
Jayson Maurice Porter
Description
About the Seminar

In this seminar, we’ll discuss the role of natural archives and proxies in historical, environmental, climatological storytelling first through plant archives of black and indigenous histories and then through proxies of justice in climate work.

About the Speaker

Environmental Writer and Historian at the University of Maryland, College Park. Specializes in Black and Indigenous environmental histories, agricultural systems, agrochemicals, cultural histories of ecology and botany, and environmental histories of revolution, rebellion, and land reform. Also an environmental justice practitioner who supports environmental literacy and design projects across a number of institutions and communities

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