The 46th Annual Conference of the Society of Ethnobiology at Lake Tahoe, Nevada, May 21–24, 2025

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Prim = Prim Library
TCES = Tahoe Center for Environmental Sciences

DAY 1: WEDNESDAY, 21st May

Time (start)Room: Prim 320Room: Prim 214Room: Prim 213Patterson Hall
7:30
 
 
 
Registration (7:30–14:30)
8:00
R Programming for Ethnobiologists
(8:00–17:00) includes 1 hr for lunch
8:30
9:00
Edible and Medicinal Qualities of Blue Elderberry
(9:00–12:00)
9:30
10:00
10:30
11:00
11:30
12:00
Board Meeting
(12:00-14:00)
 
12:30
Seng SonSeng Song Sound Spa - An Intimate and Intentional Journey into Plant Music
(12:30–14:00)
13:00
13:30
14:00
 
 
14:30
Preparing for Professional Opportunities Beyond Academia (Hybrid)
(14:30–16:30)
 
15:00
15:30
16:00
16:30 
17:00
to
21:00
 
 
Registration
(17:00–20:00)
Opening Reception, Communities and Ethnobiology Grant Award Ceremony
(18:00–21:00)
 

 

DAY 2: THURSDAY, 22nd May

Time (start)Room: Prim 213Room: Prim 214Room: TCES 206Room: TCES 106Room: TCES 139–141Patterson Hall
7:30     
Registration (7:30–17:00)
7:45     
8:00     
8:30
I. Land Stewardship
(8:30–11:00)
II. Challenging the Demonization of Wild Animals
(8:30–11:00)
III. Biocultural Heritage & Ecocultural Relationality
(8:30–11:00)
  
8:45
IV. Traversing Past Landscapes and Human-Environment Interactions
(8:45–11:00)
 
9:00 
9:15 
9:30 
9:45
Coffee Break (9:45–10:15)
10:00
10:15
Land Stewardship
Challenging the Demonization of Wild Animals
Biocultural Heritage & Ecocultural Relationality
Traversing Past Landscapes and Human-Environment Interactions
 
10:30 
10:45 
11:00     
11:15    
V. Plenary Lecture
(11:15–12:15)
11:30    
11:45    
12:00    
12:15 
Lunch
(12:15–13:45)
 
12:30
VI. Ethnobiologists Sounding the Depths and Scaling the Heights of Global Health in a Changing World
(12:30–13:30)
Student Mentor Lunch
(12:30–13:30)
12:45
13:00
13:15
13:30 
Public Session: Understanding Change and Adaptation in Mountain Regions
(13:30–15:30)
 
13:45
VII. Indigenous Ecosystem Restoration Practices in the Himalayas
(13:45–14:45)
 
 
X. Conserving Cultural Keystone Species
(13:45–15:00)
14:00
VIII. From Historical Ecology to Hysterical Ecology? Past Landscapes to Better Determine the Nature of Anthropogenic Landscapes
(14:00–15:15)
IX. Food Systems
(14:00–15:15)
14:15
14:30
14:45 
15:00
Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:15
Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:30
XI. Faith and Gender
(15:30–16:45)
XIV. Community, Climate and Food
(15:30–17:00)
 
15:45
XII. Supporting Biodiversity and Plant Justice
(15:45–17:00)
XIII. Human-animal Relations Across Diverse Environments and Places
(15:45–17:00)
 
16:00 
16:15 
16:30 
16:45  
17:00      
17:30–19:00Student Social (Location: Alibi Ale Works; 17:30–19:00)


DAY 3: FRIDAY, 23rd May

Time (start)Room: Prim 213Room: Prim 214Room: TCES 206Room: TCES 106Room: TCES 139–141Patterson Hall
7:30      
7:45     
Registration (7:45–14:00)
8:00     
8:30   
XVIII. Bats, Biodiversity and Ecological Knowledge
(8:30–10:00)
 
8:45
XV. Chenopod Cuisines
(8:45–11:30)
XVI. Ethnomedicine
(8:45–11:30)
  
9:00
XVII. Ethnobiology Education Approaches
(9:00–11:30)
 
9:15 
9:30 
9:45
Coffee Break
Coffee Break
 
10:00
Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:15
Chenopod cuisines
Ethnomedicine
10:30
Ethnobiology Education Approaches
XIX. Collaborative and Community-Based Stewardship of Pinyon-Juniper Woodlands in the Great Basin
(10:30–12:00)
 
10:45 
11:00 
11:15 
11:30    
11:45    
12:00 
Lunch
(12:00pm – 1:30pm)
 
Lunch
(12:00pm – 1:30pm)
12:15
XX. Exploration, Organization, and Storytelling: Students at SoE
(12:15–13:15)
XXI. Launched! A Celebration of Recent Books
(12:15–13:15)
12:30
12:45
13:00
13:15  
13:30
XXII. Conservation of Culturally Important Sites
(13:30–14:30)
 
XXIV. Poster Session
(Mezzanine; 13:30–15:00)
 
13:45  
14:00
XXIII. Music, Language and Names
(14:00–15:00)
  
14:15  
14:30   
14:45   
15:00
Coffee Break
15:15
15:30    
General Membership Meeting, Awards Ceremony, Distinguished Ethnobiologist Presentation
(15:30–17:00)
 
15:45     
16:00     
16:15     
16:30     
16:45     
17:00–
18:00		      
18:00 to 22:00
Banquet
(Bowl Incline; 18:00–22:00)

 

DAY 4: SATURDAY, 24th May

Time (start)  
8:30 
Plant Niche Stories/Edible & Medicinal Plants of the Timilick Valley (Northern Sierra Nevada)
(8:30–13:00)
9:00
Lake Tahoe Field Trip
(9:00–17:00)
9:30
10:00
10:30
11:00
11:30
12:00
12:30 
13:00 
13:30 
14:00 
14:30 
15:00 
15:30 
16:00 
16:30 
17:00