Thursday 21 May 2026 10:00am to 5:00pm
Nihon Room, Pembroke College, day event open to all
About
Speakers: Ottoline Leyser (in person); Rebecca Cassidy (in person); Manuela Carneiro da Cunha (online); Stephen Hugh-Jones (in person). Moderators: Sarah Franklin (in person), Martin Jones (in person) and Barbara Bodenhorn (in person). The day closes the series of ten seminars on ‘Rau Plants’ (October2025-May 2026). It is held in honour of Marilyn Strathern, who has inspired and influenced plant research in the Humanities in many significant ways.
Convener: Françoise Barbira Freedman
The 2025-26 CRASSH Research Network has been convened by Johanna Gonçalves, Christos Lynteris, Staffan Mueller-Wille and Françoise Barbira Freedman. Thanks to Hildegard Diemberger for facilitating the use of the Nihon Room at Pembroke, and to CLAS, HPS, Social Anthropology and Cambridge Reproduction, besides CRASSH, for financial support.