Within and Against Monocultures
A University Ecologies Symposium
Friday, April 24. 9:00am-5:00pm
Tufts Curtis Multipurpose Room (474 Boston Ave in Medford)
All are welcome, breakfast and lunch provided
Please contact Alex.Blanchette@tufts.edu or Silvia.Bottinelli@tufts.edu with any questions
From university campuses to global plantation ecologies, a critical symposium on engaging and interrupting monocultures.
SCHEDULE
9:00-9:30
Curtis Hall
Breakfast, Student posters, Opening remarks
9:30-11:30
Curtis Hall
Presentations
Katie Ulrich
Harvard University
Making/Breaking Sugarcane as a Raw Material for Sustainable Futures
Shana Klein Reisig
Kent State University
The “Golden” Fruit: Artistic Responses to Banana Monoculture
Jayson Maurice Porter
University of Maryland, College Park, One Square World and the CEDAR Gallery
This May Contain Oilseeds, Violence, Hope, and Other Non-Interchangeable Elements of Energy
Emily Reisman
SUNY Buffalo
The Almond and the Bee: A Not-So-Natural Co-Dependency
11:30-1:00
Bromfield Pearson Lawn
Lunch and performance, Picnic activation sets, Coco Allred (MIT)
1:00-2:00
Curtis Hall
Presentations
Binta Diaw
Columbia University
(Soil, Tomatoes, and Diaspora in Italy)
Tiago Saraiva
Drexel University
Dictatorship, Manioc, and Maroons at the Federal University of Bahia.
2:00-3:00
Curtis Hall
Coffee Break
Aidekman Arts Center, TUAG: Tour of the exhibition Reframing Campus Ecologies Exhibit
3:00-4:45:
Curtis Hall
Presentations and Wrap-Up Discussion
Nomeda and Gediminas Urbonas
MIT and VDA NEB
Wetland Games for Multispecies Diplomacy
Deyowidron’t Teri Morrow
Indigenous Nutrition Knowledge Information Network
Beyond Monoculture: Haudenosaunee Foodways, Relational Systems, and Rematriation
Sarah Besky
Cornell University
Tea and the Work of Monoculture
With appreciation for sponsorship and support from: Anthropology; History of Art and Architecture; Environmental Studies; History; Race, Colonialism, and Diaspora; Science, Technology, and Society; Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning; Visual and Material Studies.
