These events takes place between many lands and across oceans. We pay respect to the Traditional Owners of all unceded lands from where participants and audience members are joining—their Elders past and present—and acknowledge the ongoing legacies of colonial violence that connect Australia with the United Kingdom.

9 September 2025 – Zoom Link

10 September 2025 – Zoom Link

11 September 2025 – Zoom Link

Participant Bios

Alice McSherry (she/her) is a teaching fellow in the School of Environment, University of Auckland Aotearoa NZ and an independent scholar-activist dedicated to a decolonising/re-indigenising ecological worldview(s), systems change, and more-than-human intelligence.

Ann Shelton Ann Shelton, Pākehā/Italian (b. 1967 New Zealand, MFA, UBC, Canada). Shelton’s most recent work engages with plants and plant narratives, in particular their intersection with human knowledge systems, feminisms, and ecological politics.

Estraven Lupino-Smith is an artist and researcher currently pursuing a PhD in Geography whose work explores human and more-than-human relationships, using weaving as a creative and collaborative method to engage with the cultural, political, and ecological ways that power creates and re-creates.

@wildnwayward

lupino@hcommons.social

Giulia Carabelli is a Senior Lecturer in Social Theory at Queen Mary University of London. She is the co-director, with Matthew Beach, of The Plant Forum, a platform that promotes collaborations between plants and people.

Imayna Caceres is an artistic researcher at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Institute for Art Theory and Cultural Studies, where they are a PhD Candidate in Philosophy of Art.

https://akbild.academia.edu/ImaynaCaceres
https://imaynacaceres.blogspot.com/2021/03/publications.html

Kitty Silverman Linhardt is an ethnobotanist based in Los Angeles with an interest in historical folk practices of the dead, divination, and plants.

Lindsey French is an artist, educator, and writer focused on multisensory art and interspecies signalling, and currently teaches in the Department of Art at the University of Maine (USA).

Liz Storer is a Lecturer in Health Geography at Queen Mary University of London. She researches across a broad range of disciplines including geography, anthropology, development studies and public health, exploring forms of care which are not adequately valued by the state and international health actors.

Matthew Beach is an artist-researcher and educator working at the intersections between social practice and printmaking, geography, and pedagogy. He is currently writing up his PhD at Queen Mary University of London.

Mingcan Rong (pronunciation: Ming Tsan) is a PhD candidate in Human Geography at the University of Bristol investigating the vegetal geography of Chinese rhododendrons at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh.

Prudence Gibson is a Lecturer in Environmental Art at University of New South Wales, Sydney, with a specialty of Plant Humanities. As an author her books include The Plant Thieves 2023, Dark Botany 2024, The Plant Contract 2018, Covert Plants 2018 and The Pharmacy of Plants 2015.

Seedsistas, also known as Fiona Heckels and Kaz Goodweather, are clinical herbalists with over 20 years’ experience, co-founders of Sensory Solutions, a CIC social enterprise blending traditional herbalism and modern wellness, creators of the Sensory Herb Oracle Cards, and authors of Poison Prescriptions and The Sensory Herbal Handbook.

Sierra S. Roark is a PhD Candidate in Anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, fascinated with past and present human-plant entanglement.

Vitalija Povilaityte-Petri is a pharmacist and transdisciplinary researcher. She studies how medicinal plants, urban green spaces, therapeutic landscapes and traditional knowledge contribute to human connectedness with nature and regeneration of healthy ecosystems.

Yogi Hale Hendlin is an environmental philosopher and public health scientist, with appointments at Erasmus University Rotterdam and the University of California, San Francisco, and Principal of the Feral Ecologies Lab.

Feral Ecologies Lab

Biosemiotics: A New Way To Understand Non-Human Consciousness