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Economic Botany
The former Centre for Economic Botany (CEB) is now part of Kew's Sustainable Uses of Plants group, headed by Professor Monique Simmonds. It concentrates on the uses of plants in the United Kingdom and the world's arid and semi-arid zones. The Centre is also responsible for curation of the Economic Botany Collection, which contains more than 79,000 botanical raw materials and ethnographic artefacts. This webpage only covers the work of the former CEB group.
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Talk: Mr Diarmuid Jeffreys (author of ‘Aspirin: The Extraordinary Story of a Wonder Drug’) - The History of Aspirin
24 September 2008, 18.30 (tea from 17.30), Royal Pharmaceutical Society. All welcome, free Details
One-day seminar: Darwin and domestication Linnean Society, 16 October 2008.
Talk: Prof. Dr. Christian Vogl (Vienna) - Alpine ethnobotany: the use and management of plants in the Austrian Alps
Annual Distinguished Ethnobotanist Lecture, sponsored by the Anthropology Department at the University of Kent, the Global Diversity Foundation and the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew.
Summary: The landscape of the Alps is a complex mosaic of forests, alpine meadows, pastures, orchards, arable plots and home gardens, created during centuries of management by local farmers. This talk is based on long-term ethnobotanical fieldwork in Alpine villages. Based on examples from Eastern Tyrol it examines the evolution of the Alpine landscape and flora as used by local people, both in the past, and in response to current day economic and environmental changes.
Jodrell Lecture Theatre, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Tuesday 28 October 2008, 17.00 prompt. Location: Jodrell Gate, Kew Road, TW9 3DS. Multimap Tube: Kew Gardens. All welcome - Admission free. Afterwards, an opportunity to meet the speaker and other guests at the Coach & Horses on Kew Green, if wished.
SPECIAL OFFER The CD-ROM: Poisonous Plants and Fungi in Britain and Ireland is currently (summer 2008) available for £15.99 (reduced from £44.95), from Kewbooks only.
New reading list added to Further Reading page Kew, economic botany and empire
Other seminars of ethnobotany interest in the London area can be found at the Linnean Society, Royal Society, Departments of Anthropology at UCL, LSE and Goldsmiths (see also the RAI); Geography at UCL, KCL and Holloway; History of Medicine and Science at UCL, Imperial, the Wellcome Collection, Society of Apothecaries and IHR; Biology at UCL (CEE); Archaeology at UCL.
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