2018 Conference Schedule
Sunday, June 3, 2018
| 9:00am-4:00pm | Society for Economic Botany Council Meeting | Inn Wisconsin |
| 9:00am-12:00pm | Society of Ethnobiology Committee and Editorial Board Meetings | Profile |
| 8:00am-1:00pm | Optional Pre-Conference Field Trip: Late Woodland and Mississippian Archaeology at Aztalan | Buses Depart promptly at 8am from Ogg Hall dorm. |
| 1:00-5:00pm | Society of Ethnobiology Board Meeting | Profile |
| 5:00-8:00pm | Registration Table | Lounge between Profile and Inn Wisconsin rooms, 2nd floor |
| 6:00-9:00pm | Welcome Reception with Ho-Chunk Cultural Event | Tripp Commons |
Key
+ = Morton Award Applicant
^ = Fulling Award Applicant
* = Barbara Lawrence Award Applicant
+ = Morton Award Applicant
^ = Fulling Award Applicant
* = Barbara Lawrence Award Applicant
Monday, June 4
Plenary Session: Indigenous Food Sovereignty
Monday, 8:30am–12:00pm
Room: Great Hall
| 8:30-9:00 | Valerie Segrest, Muckleshoot Tribe | Muckleshoot Food Sovereignty in the Pacific Northwest |
| 9:00-9:30 | Katlyn Scholl | International Frameworks for Germplasm Exchange: An Introduction to the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture |
| 9:30-10:00 | Jessika Greendeer, Ho-Chunk | Seed Keepers and Indigenous Seed Sovereignty |
| 10:00-10:25am | Coffee Break | All coffee breaks will be in the “Class of 1924 Reception Room” attached to the Great Hall |
| 10:30-11:00 | Sean Sherman, Oglala Lakota | Understanding Indigenous Foodways to Rebuild Health and Integrity within Indigenous Communities |
| 11:00-11:30 | Candice Gardner | The US National Plant Germplasm System Maize Collection – Status, Utilization and Possibilities |
| 11:30-12:00 | DISCUSSION |
Lunch (on your own)
Monday, 12:00–1:00pm
Concurrent Sessions - Block A
Monday 1:00–2:30pm
Session 1: Quality of Life, Wellbeing, & Food Security: Theories, Methods, & Practical Approaches (1)
Session Chair: Theresa Miller
Room: Great Hall
| 1:00-1:15 | Alaka Wali | Cultivating Well-being, Securing Place: Refugee and Immigrant Gardeners in Chicago |
| 1:15-1:30 | Araceli Aguilar-Melendez | Mexican chiles (Capsicum annuum L.) as identity markers and possible strategies for conservation |
| 1:30-1:45 | Erin Mae Smith^ | The Shifting Place of Wild Foods for Food Security and Cultural Identity in Rural and Tribal Communities of Montana in the Context of Global Environmental Change |
| 1:45-2:00 | Theresa Miller | The Invisibility of Food Insecurity: Uncovering Hunger and Pathways to Food Security through Quality of Life Planning and Ethnobiological Research |
| 2:00-2:15 | Laura Monti | Participatory Ethnobotany for Land, Medicine and Food Sovereignty with indigenous Communities in arid and tropical environments of Sonora, Mexico |
| 2:15-2:30 | DISCUSSION |
Session 2: Biocultural Diversity: Past, Present and for Future Conservation
Session Chair: Robert Bye
Room: State Room
| 1:00-1:15 | Edelmira Linares | “Quelites: sabores y saberes” – the Contribution of Traditional Knowledge to Food Security and Sovereignty of Spontaneous Vegetables in southeastern State of Mexico |
| 1:15-1:30 | Anne Frances | Conservation Status of North American Crop Wild Relatives |
| 1:30-1:45 | Nathaniel James | Labor organization and taphonomy at Harappa |
| 1:45-2:00 | Georgia Fredeluces^ | Biocultural conservation of a wild harvested herb, Xerophyllum tenax (Melanthiaceae) in the Pacific Northwest, U.S.A. |
| 2:00-2:15 | Leslie Main Johnson | Milkst/Molks Pacific Crabapple, an Indigenous orchard tree |
| 2:15-2:30 | Lyn M. Tackett | Tracing Ancient Healing Practices In China and Egypt Through The Hibiscus |
Session 3: Traditional Knowledge & Food (1)
Session Chair: Ashley Blazina
Room: Old Madison
| 1:00-1:15 | Ratemo Michieka | The Economic Importance of Weed Species as Nutritious Indigenous Vegetables |
| 1:15-1:30 | Diana Quiroz | What does the absence of informant agreement tell us about medicinal plant knowledge? |
| 1:30-1:45 | Ashley J. Blazina | Flipping the Script: Experiences in Developing a Research Methodology that Questions the "Other" Narrative |
| 1:45-2:00 | Ann Biddle^ | We've been studied to death: addressing research fatigue among the Ahtna in Alaska |
| 2:00-2:15 | Annie Evans | Only Pick as Much as You Need: Harvesting Traditions and Customary Law in Makkovik |
| 2:15-2:30 | Carlos E.A. Coimbra Jr | Ora-pro-nóbis or “pray for us”: Ethnobiology of leafy Pereskia cacti, a neglected food source in Brazil |
Concurrent Sessions - Block B
Monday 3:00–4:45pm
Session 1: Hunting, Fishing, & Harvesting
Session Chair: Darcy Matthews
Room: Great Hall
| 3:00-3:15 | Al Keali'i Chock | Hawai'i: From the Ocean towards the Mountain: Self-sufficiency through Fish Ponds & Taro Patches |
| 3:15-3:30 | Darcy Mathews | Stone Fishtrap Archaeology: People, Stone, and Salmon at the Heiltsuk Village of Hauyat, Central Coast of British Columbia |
| 3:30-3:45 | Ebba Olofsson | “Man the hunter” and “woman the invisible”- changing gender roles in Indigenous economies |
| 3:45-4:00 | Molly Carney | Re-Visiting Bulb Size as a Proxy for Camas (Camassia ssp.) Management in the Pacific Northwest |
| 4:00-4:15 | Richard S. Tan | Report on Ongoing Research on Plants Used as Condiments in Mexico |
| 4:15-4:30 | DISCUSSION |
Session 2: Ethnobotany (1)
Session Chair: Alex McAlvay
Room: State
| 3:00-3:15 | Alex McAlvay | Out of Turnips: Reconstructing the domestication history of Brassica rapa crops in Eurasia |
| 3:15-3:30 | Anna Dixon | Making Your Mark: Tattooing Plants and Identity |
| 3:30-3:45 | Donald Hazlett | Honduran Plants You Must Talk to or Else.. |
| 3:45-4:00 | Folorunso Abayomi Ezekiel | Effect of Brewery Effluent on the Anatomical and Morphological Structure of Talinum triangulare (Jacq) Willd |
| 4:00-4:15 | Gail E. Wagner | Conflicted Understanding of Vegetable |
| 4:15-4:30 | Christopher Luna | Reclaiming the Indigenous Self through Ethnobotany |
| 4:30–4:45 | Rob Brandt | Food Security, Sovereignty and Traditional Knowledge in a Small Village in Morobe Province, Papau New Guinea |
Session 3: African Ethnobiology (1)
Session Chair: Jen Shaffer
Room: Old Madison
| 3:00-3:15 | Joyce Manoti Ondicho | Antimicrobial activity of some plants used in Kenya for management of infectious diseases |
| 3:15-3:30 | L. Jen Shaffer | Safe Passage: Conservation and the Role of Culture in the African Vulture Trade |
| 3:30-3:45 | Lloyd Mhlongo^ | The ethnobotany of the Amandawe, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa |
| 3:45-4:00 | C.W. Lukhoba | Traditional Medicinal Weed Plants Used for the Management of HIV/AIDS Associated Fungal Infections in the Lake Victoria Region |
| 4:00-4:15 | Ruth Kagai Adeka | Role of Traditional Food Recipes in Improving the Utilization of Spider Plant (Cleome gynandra) in Kenya |
| 4:15-4:30 | Wilfred Otang Mbeng | Indigenous cosmetic plants in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa: A case of skin care |
| 4:30-4:45 | Olubunmi Josephine Sharaibi^ | Ethno-Gynaeacological Knowledge and Preliminary Phytochemical Screenings of Medicinal Plants Used in Lagos State, Nigeria |
SoE General Membership Meeting
Monday, 5:00-6:00 pm
Room: Great Hall
Forage! Blog Open House
for Co-Editors and Authors with Editor Natalie Mueller
Monday, 6:30 pm
Room: Inn Wisconsin
Student Social & Networking Event
Monday, 7:30pm
Room: Lakeside Terrace of Memorial Union
(All students, post-docs, and students-to-be are invited)
Tuesday, June 5
Distinguished Economic Botanist Awardee
Gary Paul Nabhan
Tuesday, 8:15–9:15am
Room: Great Hall
Concurrent Sessions - Block C
Tuesday, 9:15–10:00am
Session 1: African Ethnobiology
Session Chair: Fabien Schultz
Room: Great Hall
| 9:15-9:30 | Ben-Erik Van Wyk | Review of Ethnobotanical Studies in Southern Africa (1685–2017) |
| 9:30-9:45 | Fabien Schultz^ | East and Central African Medicinal Plants as Inflammatory Inhibitors in the 15-LOX / 15-Hydroxyeicosatetraenoic acid and COX / PGH2 Pathways |
| 9:45-10:00 | Isabel Margaret Hulley | An Inventory and Analysis of Medicinal Plant Use in the Little Karoo, South Africa |
Session 2: Ethnobotany
Session Chair: Mark Nesbitt
Room: Inn Wisconsin
| 9:15-9:30 | Esther Katz | Food, Biodiversity and Traditional Knowledge in the Middle Rio Negro (Brazilian Amazon). The Fragile Balance of Food Sovereignty |
| 9:30-9:45 | Mark Nesbitt | Theory and practice in the field work of Richard Spruce, pioneer ethnobotanist of the Amazon rainforest |
| 9:45-10:00 | Robert Voeks | Carurú;: The Enigmatic Origin of Brazil’s Signature Afro-Brazilian Dish |
Session 3: Traditional Knowledge & Food
Session Chair: Kelly Kindscher
Room: Beefeater
| 9:15-9:30 | Robbie Hart | Dynamic ecological knowledge systems amid changing place and climate: Mt. Yulong rhododendrons |
| 9:30-9:45 | John Richard Stepp | Getting Into the Weeds: Discovering Where Medicinal Plants Grow |
| 9:45-10:00 | Kelly Kindscher | Sahnish (Arikara) Ethnobotany |
Concurrent Sessions - Block D
Tuesday, 10:30–12:00pm
Session 1: How to Teach Ethnobotany Painlessly
Session Chair: Al Keali’i Chock
Room: Great Hall
| 10:30-10:45 | Sunshine L. Brosi | Sharing of Teaching Resources: The Open Science Network and Beyond |
| 10:45-11:00 | Cassandra Quave | Innovative Strategies for Teaching in the Plant Sciences |
| 11:00-11:15 | Kim Bridges | The Flipped Classroom |
| 11:15-11:30 | Gail E. Wagner | Teaching Ethnobotanical Ethnography |
| 11:30-11:45 | Al Keali'i Chock | "My Plant Family" & Those Botanical Terms |
| 11:45-12:00 | DISCUSSION |
Session 2: Global Change/Global Health: Integrating Traditional Knowledges with Science in Response to Changing Human-Environment Relationships
Session Chairs: Liz Olson & Cissy Fowler
Room: Inn Wisconsin
| 10:30-10:45 | Andrew Flachs | Ethnobiology and the hope for sustainable cotton agriculture in Telangana, India |
| 10:45-11:00 | Binsheng Luo^ | The rebirth of traditional bamboo weaving in Sansui, Southwest China |
| 11:00-11:15 | Ian Tietjen | A traditional medicinal plant regimen from Southern Africa that targets HIV |
| 11:15-11:30 | Kristina Baines | Embodying Ecologies: Considering Healthy Lives through Persistence and Change |
| 11:30-11:45 | Junko Kitagawa | Introduced vegetables overwhelm traditional mountain herbs in Japan today |
| 11:45-12:00 | Sofia M. Penabaz-Wiley | Ethnobotanicals and Psychological Ownership of the Landscape: A Case Study in Periurban Matsudo, Japan |
Session 3: Quality of Life, Wellbeing, & Food Security: Theories, Methods, & Practical Approaches (2)
Session Chair: Theresa Miller
Room: Beefeaters
| 10:30-10:45 | Maia Dedrick | Food Security among Colonial Maya Migrants |
| 10:45-11:00 | Marilyn Faulkner & Erica Oberndorfer^ | Gardens of Labrador: Tending plants in the “Land God Gave to Cain” |
| 11:00-11:15 | Mark D Merlin | Peppers and People in Micronesia: Spice, Medicine and Food Security |
| 11:15-11:30 | Robert Bye | Food security and sovereignty in the Sierra Tarahumara, Chihuahua, Mexico – historical perspective and immediate challenges |
| 11:30-11:45 | Eugene Anderson | Sixty Years of Ethnobiology |
| 11:45-12:00 | DISCUSSION |
Student Mentor Lunch (pre-registration required, online or at the Student Booth)
Tuesday, 12:00–1:00pm
State Room
"Teaching Tuesday" Afternoon Workshops
Tuesday, 1:00–4:30pm
| 1:00-4:30 | Jan Salick, David Spooner | XVth Biocultural Collections Workshop | Room: 158 in Birge Hall |
| 1:00-4:30 | Araceli Aguilar-Melendez | Cooking Oaxacan Chilli Peppers to ‘taste’ the Biocultural Gastronomic Diversity of Mexico | Room: 124 in Birge Hall |
| 1:00-4:30 | Michael Thomas, Jonathan Amith | Got Ethnobiology Data? An Introduction to an Ethnobiological Data Management/Publishing Tool and Emerging Data Standard. | Room: TBA |
| 1:00-2:30 | Betsabe Castro Escobar | Caribbean Plants that Heal at Touch: Preparing Traditional Rubbing Alcohols and Salves | Room: State Room |
| 1:00-2:30 | Jennifer Helmer | Wild and Wonderful Weeds | Room: Old Madison West |
| 3:00-4:30 | Sharon Bladholm | Interfacing Nature, Science and Conservation through Art | Room: State Room |
| 3:00-4:30 | Laurent Jean-Pierre | Calabash Art | Room: Old Madison West |
Concurrent Sessions - Block E
Tuesday 3:00–4:30pm
Session 1: Biodiversity
Session Chair: James Welch
Room: Old Madison East
| 3:00-3:15 | Anne Lucy Stilger Virnig | Food security: A local catalyst for accelerating biodiversity conservation and sustainable development |
| 3:15-3:30 | Pauline Rameau | Relation between the persistence of the agrobiodiversity and rural alimentation in the Mexican Occident (Chiquilistlan, Jalisco) |
| 3:30-3:45 | Bernadette Montanari | Endangering food security, sovereignty and culture: The case of local communities in Mizoram, North East India |
| 3:45-4:00 | Jennifer Dearnaley | Re-Planting the Seeds of Indigenous Science in Australia: Directions in Australian Ethnobotany and Traditional Knowledge |
| 4:00-4:15 | James R. Welch | Social, cultural, and economic determinants of household food diversity among the Indigenous Xavante people, Central Brazil |
| 4:15-4:30 | Mohammed Ater | The oasis agroecosystem, agrodiversity, optimization of resources and local knowledge |
Session 2: Applied Ethnobiology
Session Chair: Bob Gosford
Room: Great Hall
| 3:00-3:15 | Richard K. Korir | Bacterial and Fungal Contaminants Isolated from Herbal Medicinal Products Sold in Nairobi Kenya |
| 3:15-3:30 | Annie Estelle Ambani | Explaining patterns of medicinal plant selection in southern Africa: Medicinal alien plants are redundant in the regional pharmacopoeia |
| 3:30-3:45 | Bob Gosford | Fire-spreading behavior of raptors in Northern Australia |
| 3:45-4:00 | Jan Salick | Phenological Changes after 150 years around Buzzards Bay, MA |
| 4:00-4:15 | Lisa Castle | Modeling Harvest in Fluctuating Populations: Examination of a Slow Root and a Fast Fruit |
| 4:15-4:30 | DISCUSSION |
Session 3: Land Use
Session Chair: Andrew Miller
Room: Inn Wisconsin
| 3:00-3:15 | Andrew M Miller | Reconnecting land, language and people in Posaganchik Aski [Touchwood Hills, SK] – an Indigenous cultural landscape |
| 3:15-3:30 | Carrie Calisay Cannon | Reclaiming ancestral land ties through saguaro cactus harvesting traditions |
| 3:30-3:45 | Anju Batta Seghal | Role of Ethnic Tribes in Conservation of Biodiversity of “Great Himalayan National Park” A Paradise Waiting to Be Explored |
| 3:45-4:00 | Maureece Jacqueline Levin^ | Past Landscape Management and the Construction of Modern Pingelap (Pohnpei State, Federated States of Micronesia) |
| 4:00-4:15 | Nellie Winters (presented by Erica Oberndorfer) | The Land is Full of Beauty and Good Things to Eat |
| 4:15-4:30 | DISCUSSION |
Session 4: Traditional Knowledge & Food (2)
Session Chair: Cassandra Quave
Room: Beefeater
| 3:00-3:15 | Traci Pantuso | Immunomodulating Effects of Oplopanax horridus |
| 3:15-3:30 | Janelle Marie Baker* | The Fern that Makes you Fat: Food Security and Extreme Extraction in Bigstone Cree Nation Territory (Northern Alberta, Canada) |
| 3:30-3:45 | Cassandra Quave | Ethnobotanical uses of wild flora and fungi on the Aegadian Islands of Sicily, Italy |
| 3:45-4:00 | Christian H. Norton | Ethnobotany in Nunatsiavut (Labrador, Canada): understanding Inuit and local plant usage through biological and cultural perspectives |
| 4:00-4:15 | Chunlin Long | Food Plants Traded on Local Markets in Southwest China |
| 4:15-4:30 | Molly Carney & Sydney Hanson | The Harvest of Action: Arguing the Importance of Paleoethnobotany in Cultural Resource Management Archaeology |
| 4:30-4:45 | Jorge Garcia Polo* | Mayan Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Wetland Restoration in Lake Atitlan, Guatemala |
SEB General Membership Meeting
Tuesday, 5:00–6:00 pm
Room: Great Hall
Film Session ~ Movie Night!
Tuesday, 7:30–9:15 pm
Room: Great Hall
| 7:30-7:50 | Damon Swain^ | Iakwe Majol: Untold Stories of Marshallese Immigrants |
| 7:50-8:15 | Robert Bye & Edelmira Linares | La calabaza y su aprovechamiento en la Sierra Tarahumara (Squash and Its Use in the Sierra Tarahumara of Chihuahua, Mexico) |
| 8:15-9:15 | Meg Hanrahan | A Force for Nature: Lucy Braun |
Wednesday, June 6
Distinguished Ethnobiologist Awardee
Dr. Gail E. Wagner, “Lessons Learned from Plants”
Wednesday, 8:15–9:15am
Room: Great Hall
Concurrent Sessions - Block F
Wednesday, 9:15–10:00am
Session 1: African Ethnobiology (2)
Session Chair: Ashton Welcome
Room: State Room
| 9:15-9:30-8:45 | Alex Asase | Evaluation of availability, cost, and patronage of African indigenous leafy vegetables in Ghanaian urban markets |
| 9:30-9:45-9:00 | Alexandra M. Towns | African indigenous vegetables for food security: an international NGO perspective |
| 9:45-10:00 | Ashton Welcome | The taxonomic diversity and spatial patterns of indigenous and naturalized food plants of southern Africa |
Session 3: Ethnobotany (2)
Session Chair: Letitia McCune
Room: Old Wisconsin
| 9:15-9:30 | Letitia McCune | The Methods and Manners of Food Sovereignty |
| 9:30-9:45 | Matthew Bond | Disentangling Biocultural Roots of Medicinal Plant Knowledge |
| 9:45-10:00 | Gugulethu Khumalo | A study of South African medicinal barks |
Concurrent Sessions - Block G
Wednesday, 10:30 am–12:00 noon
Session 1: Conserving Crop Diversity
Session Chair: Natalie Mueller
Room: Old Wisonsin
| 10:30-10:45 | Saskia Wolsak^ | Of Fishpots, Bonnets, and Wine: The Cultural History of the Bermuda Palmetto |
| 10:45-11:00 | Filippo Guzzon | Rediscover traditional food crops in an intensive cropping system; ethnobotany in northern Italy |
| 11:00-11:15 | Grace Ward | Tracing Landraces of Maize in the Central Mississippi Valley |
| 11:15-11:30 | Mana Hayashi Tang^ | Roots and tubers: Experimental archaeobotany and preliminary case studies in Late Pleistocene to Early Holocene China |
| 11:30-11:45 | Natalie G. Mueller | Survey for lost crops: The historical ecology of eastern North American crop progenitors |
| 11:45-12:00 | Paul Patton^ | Prehistoric Seed Saving and Agrobiodiversity in the Middle Woodland Period |
Session 2: Who’s Counting? Reflexive Innovations for Quantitative Methods & Analysis in Ethnobiology
Session Chair: Raymond Pierotti
Room: State
| 10:30-10:45 | Daniel Block | GIS, Public Participation, and Food Justice: Lessons and Examples from Chicago |
| 10:45-11:00 | Magwede Khathutshelo | Ethnobotany of the Venda people (Vhavenda), a cultural group found in the Limpopo Province of South Africa |
| 11:00-11:15 | Orou Gaoue^ | A new call for a paradigm shift and theory driven ethnobotany |
| 11:15-11:30 | Raymond Pierotti | Static and Dynamic World Views and the Concept of Traditional |
| 11:30-12:00 | DISCUSSION |
Session 3: Agricultural Practices
Session Chair: Andrew Gillreath-Brown
Room: Great Hall
| 10:30-10:45 | Andrew Gillreath-Brown^ | Barley (Hordeum vulgare) Grain Size in the Indus Valley, Pakistan: Development of Local Varieties |
| 10:45-11:00 | Daniela J. Shebitz | Evaluating Effects of Historic Cranberry Agricultural Practices and Current Restoration Techniques on Wetland Restoration in the New Jersey Pine Barrens |
| 11:00-11:15 | David Lewis Lentz | Lowland Maya Agriculture, Arboriculture and Other Production Systems: Applications of Paleoethnobotanical, Isotopic and Molecular Techniques |
| 11:15-11:30 | Jade d'Alpoim Guedes | The Wet and the Dry, the Wild and the Cultivated: Subsistence and Risk Management in Ancient Central Thailand |
| 11:30-11:45 | Jane Mt.Pleasant | Ridges and Hills in North American Indigenous Agriculture: An Agronomist Weighs In |
| 11:45-12:00 | DISCUSSION |
Session 4: Ethnobotanical Knowledge Systems
Session Chair: Michelle Baumflek
Room: Beefeaters
| 10:30-10:45 | Michelle Baumflek | Co-creating Knowledge to support Native American Plant Gathering Agreements in National Parks: A Call to Action |
| 10:45-11:00 | Zachary Joseph Hudson | Printmaking with Dirca Bark Paper |
| 11:00-11:15 | Mahlatse Mogale | A quantitative ethnobotanical study of the Bapedi people of Central Sekhukhuneland, South Africa |
| 11:15-11:30 | Ayako Kawai | Contrasting Mother Plant Selection Practice and Criteria Between Traditional, Organic, and Lifestyle farmers in Japan |
| 11:30-11:45 | Andrew Salywon | Hohokam Lost Crop Found: A New Agave (Agavaceae) Species Only Known from Large-scale pre-Columbian Agricultural Fields in Southern Arizona |
| 11:45-12:00 | Saowalak Bunma | Traditional Food from Sesbania (Fabaceae) |
Lunch on Your Own
Wednesday, 12:00–1:00pm
Networking session for non-academic job paths
Wednesday, 12:20–1:20pm
Room: Inn Wisconsin
Poster Session
Wednesday 1:00–2:00pm
Room: Great Hall
Key
+ = Morton Award Applicant
^ = Fulling Award Applicant
* = Barbara Lawrence Award Applicant
+ = Morton Award Applicant
^ = Fulling Award Applicant
* = Barbara Lawrence Award Applicant
| Lan Truong+ | Anti-Diabetic Medicinal Plants of Southern Vietnam and Traditional Vietnamese Herbal Medicine |
| Rossana Paredes+* | Dynamism in Traditional Ecological Knowledge: Continuity and Change in the Use of Totora (Schoenoplectus californicus) for Subsistence in Huanchaco, Peru |
| Grady Zuiderveen | “Stocking the hunting ground:” Insights into the source of “wild” ginseng (Panax quinquefolius L.) in Pennsylvania |
| John de la Parra+ | Ethnobotanically-Informed Phenotypes: A Path to Treating the Prediabetic Condition |
| John Marston | A Microbotanical Study of Landscape Use by Enslaved Communities at James Madison’s Montpelier |
| Alex Asase | Ethnopharmacological study of some medicinal plants from Ghana |
| Sun Ick Kim | Occurrence and Damage by Thrips tabaci Lindeman in ginseng crops |
| Shana Boyer+ | Before Big Sugar Came to Town: Raising Cane on Florida’s Frontier |
| Do Yeun Won | Eco-friendly method to decrease injury of ginseng rhizome rot |
| Sangyoung SEO | Effect of Chitosan Basic Fertilization on Cultivation of Korean ginseng (Panax ginseng C. A. Meyer) in Plastic House |
| Jeong A Han | Changes of Berry Characteristics and Ginsenoside Content on Harvesting time of Ginseng Berry in Korean Ginseng |
| Elizabeth Green | Seasonal Rounds of the Lakota at Wind Cave National Park |
| Yeji Yoon | Proper shading material in rain shelter house for direct seedling of 4 years old Ginseng (Panax ginseng C.A. Meyer) |
| Daniel R. Williams+ | The role of polymorphism in Chenopodium domestication |
| Rebecca Dean | Euclidian Distance, the Faunal Troika, and Diversity Analysis in the Desert Border Regions |
| Brooke Mariah Hayes+ | That’s Amari: Italian Heritage Bitter Botanical Liqueurs |
| Alexia Decaix+ | Agricultural practices between the 3rd and 2nd millennium BC in the Indus valley: archaeobotanical results from Harappa |
| Carrie Calisay Cannon | A Native Food Symposium in Indian Country |
| Lukas Desjardins* | Sumaq Kausay: Cultivating Quechua Identity through the Potato |
| Lisa Castle | Scoring a Genus vs. Scoring all the Species: Analysis of Threats to Wild-Harvested Echinacea Species |
| Kate Utech | Calculating Oshá; Root Yield for Stands Using Average Percent Coverby |
| Brooke Mariah Hayes | Title: Reign of Terroir: Fermenting Rebellion in Florida's Winemaking Industry |
| Lisa Castle | Eaten to Endangerment: an analysis of applicability of the United Plant Savers At-Risk Assessment Tool to wild-harvested edible plants |
| Kayla Boultinghouse | Jackrabbit Fauna from the Marana Platform Mound |
| Kathryn Matthews+ | Restoration Strategies for Camassia quamash on the Weippe Prairie |
| Mohammed Ater | A traditional practice little known in oasis agroecosystems, flood recession agriculture |
| Autumn Arvidson+ | Promising Medicinal Uses for Non-Native Invasive and Noxious Weeds |
| Sunshine L. Brosi | Ethnobotany alumni where are they now? Careers and Graduate School Opportunities |
| Diana Peterson+ | Manoomin (wild-rice or Zizania spp.) among Menominee and Ojibwe in Wisconsin -- a study integrating TEK and GIS |
| Kate Sammons+ | Effects of ploidy level on chemotype and antimicrobial activity in the Achillea millefolium complex |
| Alec H Colarusso* | The Mysterious Black Drink and its influences on the Indigenous People of North America |
| Sunshine L. Brosi | Connecting People with Park Trees and Cultural Events with Climate Change: Dendroecology near Washington, DC, USA |
| Rachel Jones+ | Colorful Quinoa: shifting autonomy in diversity of a miracle cereal put to market |
| Fabien Schultz+ | Investigation of antimalarial and genotoxic properties of African medicinal plants traditionally used in western and central Uganda |
| Jeffrey R. Boutain+ | A Snapshot of Trending Beer and Fermentation Education in Southeastern Michigan |
| Megan O’Sullivan | Prehistoric Plate: The Ethnobotany of Southern Utah’s Indigenous People |
| Karen Heeter+ | Connecting People with Park Trees and Cultural Events with Climate Change: Dendroecology near Washington, DC, USA |
| Johanne Stogran | Role of Ethnic Tribes on Conservation of Biodiversity of Great Himalayan National Park: A Paradise Waiting to be Explored |
| Florencia Pech-Cardenas+ | Linking Heritage Tourism, Livelihoods, and Natural Resources Management in Mayan Communities |
| Michelle Audie+ | Connecting People with Park Trees and Cultural Events with Climate Change: Dendroecology near Washington, DC, USA |
| Jason TW Irving | A Global Survey of Medicinal Plants, their Names, and Presence in Medicines and Conservation Regulation |
| Jeffrey R. Boutain+ | Update on Homegrown Hops in the Hawaiian Islands for Spring 2018 |
Concurrent Sessions - Block H
Wednesday, 2:30–5:00pm
Session 1: Effective Approaches to Human Ecology Education
Session Chairs: Steven Wolverton & Daniela Shebitz
Room: Great Hall
| 2:30-2:45 | Lisa Nagaoka | Using the Management of Urban Species to Teach Conservation Biogeography |
| 2:45-3:00 | Daniela J. Shebitz | Training Environmental Professionals through an Experiential Learning Capstone |
| 3:00-3:15 | Denise M. Glover | Caw Connections: Observing; Writing About Crows in College |
| 3:15-3:30 | Steve Wolverton | The Mandala Exercise for Increasing Ecological Understanding |
| 3:30-3:45 | Fidji Gendron | Working with Indigenous Elders in Biology and Chemistry University Courses |
| 3:45-4:00 | DISCUSSION | |
| 4:00-4:15 | Elizabeth A Olson | Jumpstart, Our National Parks: Using Local Resources to Teach Integrated General Education |
| 4:15-4:30 | Carrie Calisay Cannon | Ethnobotanical Collaborations Among the Pai Tribes of the Southwest |
| 4:30-4:45 | Linda S. Black Elk | Plant Stories: Encouraging Environmental Activism and Relation Building through Storytelling |
| 4:45-5:00 | DISCUSSION |
Session 2: Ethnoforestry: Knowledges about Forests and their Contributions to Food Security
Session Chair: Cissy Fowler
Room: State Room
| 2:30-2:45 | Sarah Walshaw | Trade, tools, transport, and timber:potential contributions from wood analysis on the Swahili Coast |
| 2:45-3:00 | Cynthia Fowler | Hemba: the Forest Islands of Kodi as Space-Time Footprints in Support of Food Security |
| 3:00-3:15 | Aida Cuni Sanchez | Same forest but different people means different use: insights from Cameroun |
| 3:15-3:30 | Grady Zuiderveen^ | Effects of harvest time and forest site conditions on alkaloid content in goldenseal (Hydrastis canadensis L.) |
| 3:30-3:45 | Gul Jan | Ethnobotanical Analysis of Medicinal Flora of Kohimoor BAB-A Bajaur Agency, Pakistan |
| 3:45-4:00 | Maria Fadiman | Ethnobotany and conservation in Abaco: Connecting locals to their own plants and knowledge |
| 4:00-4:15 | S. H. Sohmer | Food Security, Sovereignty and Traditional Knowledge in a small village in Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea |
| 4:15-4:30 | Samuel Bosco | Seeing the Forest for the Trees: Historic and Contemporary Significance of Nut Trees in Haudenosaunee Communities |
| 4:30-4:45 | Demetrio Luis Guadagnin | Survivorship and regeneration of Fosteronia glabrescens in experimental harvesting in South Brazil |
| 4:45-5:00 | DISCUSSION |
Session 3: Ethnomedicine
Session Chair: Richard Tate
Room: Old Wisconsin
| 2:30-2:45 | Abolade Oluremi Bolaji | Proximate Analysis, Phytochemical Screening and Cytotoxic Investigation of Leaf and Root Extracts of Euphorbia Graminae |
| 2:45-3:00 | Charlotte Gyllenhaal | Roles of plants in the treatment of colorectal cancer: a brief review |
| 3:00-3:15 | Esther Ngendo Matu | Antimicrobial activities of skincare preparations from Kenyan Plectranthus barbatus total extracts: Towards improvement of healthcare and livelihoods |
| 3:15-3:30 | Idayat Titilayo Gbadamosi | Assessment of the nutritional qualities of ten botanicals used in pregnancy and child delivery in Ibadan, Nigeria |
| 3:30-3:45 | John de la Parra^ | Optimizing Chemotypic Variation in Indigenous Ethnobotanical Treatments for Prediabetes |
| 3:45-4:00 | Methee Phumthum^ | Phylogenetic signal in traditional Thai medicinal plant uses |
| 4:00-4:15 | Olubunmi Abosede Wintola | The prevalence and perceived efficacy of medicinal plants used for stomach ailments in the Amathole District Municipality, Eastern Cape, South Africa |
| 4:15-4:30 | Zia-ur-Rehman Mashwani | Use-based knowledge of medicinal plants: A quantitative ethnobotanical inventory from Fairy Meadow National Park, Diamir, Gilgit Baltistan |
| 4:30-4:45 | Jason TW Irving | A Summary of the Understanding and Selection of Plants with a Bitter Action in Western Herbal Medicine and a Review of Recent Research into Bitter Taste Receptors |
| 4:45-5:00 | Richard W. Tate | Washing away the evil eye: Herbal healing of childhood rickets in Adjara, Georgia (Caucasus) |
Session 4: Panel Discussion: Ginseng Economic Botany in Northern Wisconsin
Session Chair: Trish Flaster
Room: Beefeaters
Note: This session is organized as a moderated panel discussion rather than individual talks and will run from 2:30–3:30pm.
Panel Participants:
- Walter Cox, Director Conservation for the Menominee tribe
- Jackie Fett, Executive/Marketing Director Ginseng Board of Wisconsin
- Paul and Will Hsu, Hsu’s Ginseng Enterprises, Inc.
- Charmaine Robaidek, Wild Ginseng Program Coordinator, Bureau of Law Enforcement Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources TBD
Banquet & Awards Ceremony
Wednesday, 5:30-10:00 pm
Room: Lake Mendota Room of Dejope Residence Hall
Thursday, June 7, 2018
| 8:00am–6:00pm | Optional Post-Conference Field Trip: Ginseng Cultivation and Use | Buses Depart promptly at 8am from Ogg Hall dorm. |
| 8:00am–6:00pm | Optional Post-Conference Field Trip: A Force of Nature: Native Peoples and the Making of the South Central Wisconsin Landscape | Buses Depart promptly at 8am from Ogg Hall dorm. |