In this episode, Kate interviews anthropologist Dr. Sophie Chao about her work in Papua New Guinea. Plants discussed include eucalyptus and sago palm. If you are interested in Chao's work, you can find it on her website, https://www.morethanhumanworlds.com/.

If you are interested in connecting with Networking with Plants in the Anthropocene, please visit our website networkingwithplants.org or email us at [email protected] .

The music piece is kindly offered to us by artist Mileece. You can find her work at: www.mileece.is

Special thanks to steering committee member Joe Culhane for creating the podcast image.

In this episode, Kate interviews Dr. Catriona Sandilands about her work with feminist critical plant studies and "loving the difficult" in invasive plant management. Particular plants covered include roses, nettle, mulberry trees, and scotch broom. If you are interested in Sandilands' work, you can find it on her website, https://www.catesandilands.ca/. Also, for more information about her work referenced in this episode, you can find "Plant/s Matter" here (https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00497878.2021.1983433), "Mulberry Intimacies" here (https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781003023319-3/mulberry-intimacies-sweetness-kinship-catriona-sandilands), and "Loving the Difficult" here (https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9781478022664-003/html?lang=en). Additionally, feel free to check out her co-edited volume of Ecozon@: European Journal of Literature, Culture, Environment "Gardening the Anthropocene" (2023).

If you are interested in connecting with Networking with Plants in the Anthropocene, please visit our website networkingwithplants.org or email us at [email protected].

The music piece is kindly offered to us by artist Mileece. You can find her work at: www.mileece.is

Special thanks to steering committee member Joe Culhane for creating the podcast image.

In this episode, Kate interviews Dr. Patrícia Vieira about her project EcoAmazonia. In addition to plants in the Amazon region, they discuss olive trees. If you are interested in Vieira's work, you can find it on her website, https://www.patriciavieira.net/. Also, for more information about her current work in the EcoAmazonia project here: https://eco.ces.uc.pt/en/home-english/. Her co-edited volume that includes her chapter on olive trees is The Mind of Plants (2021) and more information about this project can be found here: https://www.themindofplants.com/. Additionally, check out the Eco Expo art exhibit here: https://ecoexpo.ces.uc.pt/en/home-english/. And remember to keep an eye out for her forthcoming monograph Zoophytography.

If you are interested in connecting with Networking with Plants in the Anthropocene, please visit our website networkingwithplants.org or email us at [email protected] .

The music piece is kindly offered to us by artist Mileece. You can find her work at: www.mileece.is

Special thanks to steering committee member Joe Culhane for creating the podcast image.

In this episode of the Networking with Plants in the Anthropocene Podcast, Kate Brelje interviews Dr. Lucas Mertehikian about his work with plants. If you are interested in Mertehikian's work, you can find it on his website, https://lucasmertehikian.com/home/. Also, for more information about the institutions he has recently worked for and is currently working for, check out Dumbarton Oaks (https://www.doaks.org/) and the New York Botanical Garden (https://www.nybg.org/). Especially check out the Dumbarton Oaks page on the Plant Humanities Initiative (https://www.doaks.org/research/mellon-initiatives/plant-humanities-initiative), the Plant Humanities Lab (https://lab.plant-humanities.org/), and NYBG's Humanities Institute (https://www.nybg.org/learn/humanities-institute/).

You can also find the article and books we talked about by following these links: Rob Nixon's "The Less Selfish Gene" (https://read.dukeupress.edu/environmental-humanities/article/13/2/348/235001/The-Less-Selfish-GeneForest-Altruism-Neoliberalism), Maura Flannery's In the Herbarium (https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300247916/in-the-herbarium/) and Prue Gibson's The Plant Thieves (https://unsw.press/books/the-plant-thieves/). Flannery will be on a forthcoming episode of the podcast to talk about In the Herbarium and Prue has joined us to discuss The Plant Thieves on Episode 3.

If you are interested in connecting with Networking with Plants in the Anthropocene, please visit our website networkingwithplants.org or email us at [email protected] .

The music piece is kindly offered to us by artist Mileece. You can find her work at: www.mileece.is

Special thanks to steering committee member Joe Culhane for creating the podcast image.

In this episode of the Networking with Plants in the Anthropocene Podcast, Kate Brelje interviews anthropologist Dr. Alyssa Paredes about her work with people and plants. If you are interested in Paredes' work, you can find it on her website, https://alyssaparedes.com/. You can find the first article we talked about, "Experimental Science for the 'Bananapocalypse': Counter Politics in the Plantaciocene" here: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00141844.2021.1919172. The second piece we discussed is her chapter "We Are Not Pests" in The Promise of Multispecies Justice (2022), edited by Sophie Chao, Karin Bolender, and Eben Kirksey (https://multispeciesjustice.space/). Also, look out for her forthcoming work in "Plantation Liberalism" (in Current Anthropology), as well as Halo-Halo Ecologies (University of Hawai'i Press), for which she is a co-editor.

In this episode of the Networking with Plants in the Anthropocene Podcast, Kate Brelje interviews poet and interdisciplinary scholar Professor Megan Kaminski about her work with plants. If you are interested in Kaminski's work, you can find it on her website https://www.megankaminski.com/. For more information on Quietly Between, you can find it here: https://aviewingspace.com/quietly-between. If you are interested in the Prairie Divination Deck, you can find more information here: https://www.prairiedivination.com/. You can also follow Kaminski on social media with the handle @mllemegan.

If you are interested in connecting with Networking with Plants in the Anthropocene, please visit our website networkingwithplants.org or email us at [email protected] .

The music piece is kindly offered to us by artist Mileece. You can find her work at: www.mileece.is

Special thanks to steering committee member Joe Culhane for creating the podcast image.

In this episode of the Networking with Plants in the Anthropocene Podcast, Kate Brelje interviews Emilia Jane Wolfe about her fascinating work with plants. If you are interested in following Wolfe's work, you can find her work with plants and movement on Instagram with the handle @plants.move.you and connect with the Dart Community Apothecary on Instagram with the handle @dartcommunityapothecary or via Facebook at facebook.com/dartcommunityapothecary/. The nettle story shared by Wolfe is from Song of the Seven Herbs by Walking Night Bear and Stan Padilla, published in 1987.

If you are interested in connecting with Networking with Plants in the Anthropocene, please visit our website networkingwithplants.org or email us at [email protected] .

The music piece is kindly offered to us by artist Mileece. You can find her work at: www.mileece.is

Special thanks to steering committee member Joe Culhane for creating the podcast image.

In this episode of the Networking with Plants in the Anthropocene Podcast, Kate Brelje interviews Sydney Kale about her fascinating work with plants. If you are interested in connecting with Kale about her research or plant practices, feel free to contact her by email at [email protected].

If you are interested in connecting with Networking with Plants in the Anthropocene, please visit our website networkingwithplants.org or email us at [email protected] .

The music piece is kindly offered to us by artist Mileece. You can find her work at: www.mileece.is

Special thanks to steering committee member Joe Culhane for creating the podcast image.

In this episode of the Networking with Plants in the Anthropocene Podcast, Kate Brelje interviews Dr. Thomas Hart about his work as a paleoethnobotanist. For more information about Hart's work, see his Academia.edu profile here: https://utexas.academia.edu/ThomasHart. You can also find him on Instagram by his handle tom_the_archaeobotanist. His recently published article on maize, "South American Maize and Political Economy of the Middle and Late Formative Soconusco Region of Guatemala" appears in Latin American Antiquity, which you can find here: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/latin-american-antiquity/article/south-american-maize-and-political-economy-of-the-middle-and-late-formative-soconusco-region-of-guatemala/3911416424E0933B33E6E276D5549D3B?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_source=bookmark.

If you are interested in connecting with Networking with Plants in the Anthropocene, please visit our website networkingwithplants.org or email us at [email protected] .

The music piece is kindly offered to us by artist Mileece. You can find her work at: www.mileece.is

Special thanks to steering committee member Joe Culhane for creating the podcast image.

In this episode of the Networking with Plants in the Anthropocene Podcast, Kate Brelje interviews Dr. Jon Pitt about his work on critical plant and Japanese studies. For more information about Pitt's work, see his University of California, Irvine profile here: https://www.faculty.uci.edu/profile/?facultyId=6691. You can also find him on Twitter by his handle @Jon_L_Pitt. His recently published article on the trees of Hiroshima and Chernobyl, "Documenting Wordless Testimony: Botanical Witnesses of Hiroshima and Chernobyl" appears in Angelaki, which you can find here: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0969725X.2023.2233801. Also, you can find out more about his forthcoming translation book of Hiromi Ito's work, Tree Spirits Grass Spirits, complete with ordering information here: https://nightboat.org/book/tree-spirits-grass-spirits/. And finally, his forthcoming chapter on marimo, "Becoming Marimo: The Curious Case of a Charismatic Algae and Imagined Indigeneity" will be in Critical Plant Studies Volume 8 Being Algae (https://brill.com/display/title/68608).

If you are interested in our connecting with Networking with Plants in the Anthropocene, please visit our website networkingwithplants.org or email us at [email protected] .

The music piece is kindly offered to us by artist Mileece. You can find her work at: www.mileece.is

Special thanks to steering committee member Joe Culhane for creating the podcast image.