2025 Timetable

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DAY 1: WEDNESDAY, 21st May

Time (start)Room 1Room 2Room 3Room 4
7:30Registration (7:30–14:00)
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)
 
Seng SonSeng Song Sound Spa - An Intimate and Intentional Journey into Plant Music
(12:00–13:30)
12:30
13:00
13:30
14:00
 
Preparing for Professional Opportunities Beyond Academia (Hybrid)
(14:00–16:00)
 
14:30
15:00
15:30
16:00
 
16:30
17:00
to
21:00
Registration: Opening Reception
(17:00–20:00)
Opening Reception, Communities and Ethnobiology Grant Award Ceremony
(18:00–21:00)

 

DAY 2: THURSDAY, 22nd May

Time (start)Room 1Room 2Room 3Room 4
7:30
Registration (7:30–17:00)
7:45
8:00
8:30 
II. Challenging the Demonization of Wild Animals
(8:30–11:00)
III. Biocultural Heritage & Ecocultural Relationality
(8:30–11:00)
 
8:45
I. Land Stewardship
(8:45–11:00)
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 Session
(11:15 am – 12:15 pm)
11:30
11:45
12:00
12:15  
Lunch
(12:15pm – 1:45pm)
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
12:45
13:00
13:15
13:30  
13:45
VII. Indigenous Ecosystem Restoration Practices in the Himalayas
(13:45–15:00)
 
IX. Food Systems
(13:45–15:15)
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)
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
Student Social
(17:30–19:00)
18:00
18:30

 

DAY 3: FRIDAY, 23rd May

Time (start)Room 1Room 2Room 3Room 4
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    
17:30    
18:00 to 22:00
Banquet
(Bowl Incline; 18:00–22:00)

 

DAY 4: SATURDAY, 24th May

Time (start)   
8:00   
8:30  
Edible & Medicinal Plants of the Northern Sierra Nevada
(8:30–12:30)
9:00
Lake Tahoe Field Trip
(9:00–17:00)
Plant Niche Stories as Told by Timilick Valley
(9:00–15:00)
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   
17:30   
18:00   
18:30