Global Plant Humanities Network
The 2nd International Conference on Global Plant Humanities
2-3 May 2025, Kathmandu, Nepal
CONTRIBUTE A NEW PERSPECTIVE ON PLANTS
Date of Conference: 2–3 May 2025 (Fri-Sat)
Mode: Hybrid (In-person and Online)
Host: Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal
Partners: Nulungu Institute, University of Notre Dame, Australia; Sadhan Chandra Mahavidyalaya (affiliated with the University of Calcutta); Sundarban Mahavidyalaya (also affiliated with the University of Calcutta); and Gifts from the Sentient Forest (research project supported by the Kone Foundation, Finland)
LEARN ABOUT THE CULTURAL AND BOTANICAL DIVERSITY OF NEPAL
The 2nd International Conference on Global Plant Humanities at Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal, 2–3 May 2025, will further the dialogue between the arts, humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences towards novel perspectives on the botanical world and human-flora relations.
Humankind is deeply interconnected with botanical life. As sources of sustenance, agents of healing, and symbols of wonder, plants are vital to our lives. While offering us materials essential for existence, flora also inspires community identity and expresses cultural heritage. Nourishing, life-supporting, and ever-present, plants represent about ninety percent of the Earth’s biomass. In the current era of intensifying ecological crisis, however, the future of many plant species and communities remains uncertain. If left unchecked, habitat loss, land use shifts, and climatic disturbances will continue to accelerate botanical decline worldwide.
Highlighting cross-cultural understandings of plant life, the conference will focus on developments in Plant Humanities scholarship across the globe but with emphasis on the biocultural diversity of South Asian countries (Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka).