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We are excited to announce the following workshops that will take place on Tueday, May 31, 2022. All workshops have a cost of $20USD which can be added during your registration. You can also click here and choose "Modify Registration" if you have already completed your registration and wish to add a workshop.

1.5 HOUR WORKSHOPS

PRESENTER: Trish Flaster
TITLE: Non Academic job opportunities
SHORT DESCRIPTION: A 1.5 hour workshop. Academic positions are not the only gainful employment for economic botanists and ethnobotanists, Meet SEB professionals speaking about their nonacademic jobs.
DATE: Tuesday 31st May 15.00-16.30

PRESENTER: Christina Horvath
TITLE: Botanical Encounters: The use of arts-based methods to decolonise botanical imagination
SHORT DESCRIPTION: A 1.5 hour workshop in which participants will familiarise themselves with arts-based Co-Creation methods and explore through drawing, collaging and discussion the multiple cultural meanings of a set of plants relevant to and affected by colonial legacies and Eurocentric hierarchies in knowledge production.
DATE: Tuesday 31st May 15.00-16.30


3.0 HOUR WORKSHOPS

PRESENTER: Sonia Dhanda
TITLE: CITES and plants: understanding wildlife trade policy
SHORT DESCRIPTION: A 3 hour interactive workshop that will provide an in-depth understanding of the Convention on International Trade of Endangered Species (CITES). The outcomes will be learning about the scientific decision-making processes underpinning CITES and how the sustainability of species in trade is determined.
DATE: Tuesday 31st May 15.00-18.15

PRESENTER: Marc Williams
TITLE: Botanical Beverage Fermentation, Formulation and Evaluation
SHORT DESCRIPTION: A 3 hour interactive workshop in which the initiation of a mead from local flora will include discussion of a 100 spp. plant list to illustrate trends in American/Caribbean drink production. We will then taste Jamaican tonics and others from the facilitator while using rubrics to evaluate the organoleptics.
DATE: Tuesday 31st May 15.00-18.15

PRESENTER: Natty Mark Samuels
TITLE: Grandmothers and Griots
SHORT DESCRIPTION: A 3 hour interactive workshop, celebrating the trees of African and Caribbean Folklore, including two creative writing exercises and participatory chanting.
DATE: Tuesday 31st May 15.00-18.15


Please note that workshops are not available for virtual registrants.