Timetable

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DAY 1, WEDNESDAY, 24th April 

Time (start)
Auditorium North
Auditorium South
Meeting Room East
Meeting Room West
Offsite/Online
08:00
Registration: Bayer Event Center Lobby (8:00–14:00)
08:30
09:00
 
R Programming for Ethnobiologists: A Beginner’s Guide to the Tidyverse
(9:00–17:00)
Seeing Seeds: An Artistic Investigation
(9:00–13:00)
 
Foraging and Cooking an Ozarks Lunch with Chef Rob Connoley
(9:00–17:00)
 
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Hearing Humus
Online via Zoom
(16:00–17:00)
09:30
 
 
10:00
Board Meeting
(10:00–15:30)
Supporting Cultural Stewardship of Indigenous People in Urban Areas
(10:00–12:00)
10:30
11:00
11:30
12:00
 
12:30
 
13:00
 
 
13:30
 
 
14:00
Espuma de Cacao
(14:00–16:30)
Reviewing Books and More: Workshop with Reviewers, Readers, and Editors
(14:00–16:00)
14:30
15:00
15:30
 
16:00
 
 
16:30
 
 
 
17:00
to
21:00
Registration: Lenox Room, Chase Park Plaza Royal Sonesta Hotel, 
212 Kingshighway Boulevard 
(17:00–20:00)
Opening Reception, Communities and Ethnobiology Grant Award Ceremony: Lenox Room, Chase Park Plaza Royal Sonesta Hotel, 212 Kingshighway Boulevard   
(18:00–21:00)

 

DAY 2, THURSDAY, 25th April

Time (start)
Auditorium North
Auditorium South
Meeting room
Other Locations
07:30
Registration: Bayer Event Center Lobby (7:30–17:00)
08:00
08:30
 Plenary Session: William Brown Talk and Welcome - Bayer Event Center West
(8:30 - 10:00)
09:00
09:30
10:00
Coffee Break 
10:30
I. Cassava and Cacao
(10:30–12:00)
II. Politics of the Urban Body: Bioarcheological Studies of Ancient state
(10:30–12:00)
III. History and Folklore
(10:30–12:00)
 
11:00
11:30
12:00
IV. Roundtable: Curators, Keepers, and Sleeping Seeds: How can Historical and Archaeological Seed Collections Contribute to the Revival of Traditional Agriculture?
(12:15–13:15)
V. Roundtable: Publishing in Ethnobiology: Trends and New Directions
(12:15–13:15)
 
 
12:30
Herbarium Tour
(12:30–13:30)
Meet in the Bayer Center Lobby, 4500 Shaw Blvd (10 min. walk west on Shaw Blvd), signup at registration desk required. 
13:00
13:30
VI. Cultural Keystone Places and Historical Ecology Part 1
(13:30–15:00)
VII. Urban Ethnobiology
(13:30–15:00)
VIII. Knowledge Integration/ Traditional Ecological Knowledge
(13:30–15:00)
 
 
 
14:00
14:30
15:00
Coffee Break
15:30
IX. Cultural Keystone Places and Historical Ecology Part 2
(15:30–17:00)
 
X. Ethnomedicine (15:30–17:00)
Rare Books Collection Tour (3:30 to 4:30) Meet in front of the MoBot Library, signup at registration desk required.
16:00
16:30
 
17:00
 
 
 
 
17:30
Student Social, Urban Chestnut, 4465 Manchester Avenue
(17:30–19:00)
Cutler-Anderson Corn Collection Tour
(17:15–18:15)
Meet at 4500 Shaw Blvd (10 min. walk west on Shaw Blvd), signup at registration desk required.
18:00
18:30

 

DAY 3, FRIDAY, 26th April

Time (start)
Auditorium North
Auditorium South
Meeting room
Other Locations
08:00
Registration - Bayer Event Center Lobby (8:00–17:00)  
08:30
09:00
XI. Reflections on the Field
(9:00–10:00)
XII. Paleoethnobotany and Archaeology
(9:00–10:00)
XIII. Urbanization and Local Knowledge
(9:00–10:00)
 
 
09:30
10:00
Coffee Break
10:30
XIV. Ethnobiology of Birds
(10:30–11:15)
XV. Cultural Forests
(10:30–12:00)
XVI. Food Resilience in a Changing World
(10:30–12:00)
Tour of Biocultural Collections
(10:30–11:30)
Meet at 4500 Shaw Blvd (10 min. walk west on Shaw Blvd), signup at registration desk required.  
11:00
11:30
XVII. Roundtable:
When we listen, what can we hear? Foregrounding listening methods in ethnobotany
(11:30–13:15) 
 
12:00
2024 Annual Meeting of Biocultural Collections
(12:15–13:30) 
Student Mentor Lunch
(12:15–13:15)
Lunch
(12:00–13:30)
12:30
13:00
13:30
XVIII. Virtual Poster Session
(13:30–15:00)
 

 

 

 

 

 

Poster Sessions (XIX, XX, XXI) Bayer Event Center West
(13:30–15:00)
 
14:00
14:30
Sachs Museum Tour
(2:30–3pm)
Meet in Sachs Museum Lobby,
signup at registration desk required.  
15:00
Coffee Break
15:30
General Meeting, Awards Ceremony, Distinguished Ethnobiologist Talk
Bayer Event Center West
(15:30–17:00)
16:00
16:30
17:00
 
17:30
18:00
Banquet: William A. Kerr Foundation, 21 O’Fallon Street
(18:00–21:00)
18:30
19:00
19:30
20:00
20:30

 

DAY 4, SATURDAY, 27th April 

Time
Event
Shuttle
7:40-12:50
Shaw Nature Reserve Visit
7:40 Pick up Chase Park Plaza
8:00 Pick up MoBot
12:30 Drop off MoBot
12:50 Drop off Chase Park Plaza
9:00-16:30
Mississippi River Canoe Trip
9:00 Pick up Chase Park Plaza
14:30 Drop off Chase Park Plaza
9:30-13:30
Cahokia Mounds Field Trip and Guided Tour
9:30 Pick up Chase Park Plaza
9:45 Pick up MoBot
13:10 Drop off MoBot
13:30 Drop off Chase Park Plaza