Saturday Apr.12
Petteruti Lounge (Campus Center Rm.201), Faunce House, 75 Waterman St, Providence
9:00-9:15 Coffee/Tea Service and Pastries
9:15-9:30 Welcome and Introduction: Shanti Morell-Hart and Stacie King
1) Seed collections as deep history.
9:30-10:00 Stacie King and Shanti Morell-Hart – The Seed Bank at Cerro X: Conquest, Mesoamerican Foodways, and Indigenous Resilience
10:00-10:30 Paul Minnis – Ancient Seeds for a Reasonable Future
10:30-10:40 Kathleen Forste – Discussant
10:40-11:00 Q & A
11:00-12:30 Lunch Break
2) Seed collections as heritage.
12:30-1:00 Olivia Angé – Seed Collections as Genetic Resources, Biocultural Heritage and Endangered Family: Potato Cosmopolitics in Conservation Practices
1:00-1:30 Xan Chacko – Contained Futures
1:30-1:40 Myles Lennon – Discussant
1:40-2:00 Q & A
2:00-2:30 Coffee/Tea Service
3) Seed collections as germplasm.
2:30-3:00 David Lowry – Seeds: Evolutionary Marvels and the Complex Challenges of their Collection for Scientific Research
3:00-3:30 Helen Ann Curry – Promise and Peril in a Potato Genebank
3:30-3:40 Rebeca Kartzinel – Discussant
3:40-4:00 Q & A
4:00-5:00 Reception
Sunday Apr.13
Petteruti Lounge (Campus Center Rm.201), Faunce House, 75 Waterman St, Providence
9:00-9:30 Coffee/Tea Service and Pastries
4) Seed collections as futures.
9:30-10:00 Caterina Scaramelli – What Seeds Carry: Sprouting, Keeping, and Exchanging Locality in Turkey
10:00-10:30 Vivien Sansour – Presentation
10:30-10:40 Mindi Schneider – Discussant
10:40-11:00 Q & A
11:00-12:30 Lunch Break
5) Seed collections as property.
12:30-1:00 Karine Peschard – A Brief History of Seed in Eight Paradigms
1:00-1:30 Faidra Papavasiliou – Enclosures, Encroachments, and the Value of Agrobiocultural Heritage in the North Aegean
1:30-1:40 Aparajita Majumdar – Discussant
1:40-2:00 Q & A
2:00-2:30 Coffee/Tea Service
6) Seed collections as kin.
2:30-3:00 Tiffany Traverse – Presentation
3:00-3:30 Carol Hernández – The Heart of Native Seeds: Why Do Seeds Matter and How Do they Contribute to Indigenous Sovereignty?
3:30-3:40 Christina Hodge – Discussant
3:40-4:00 Q & A