‘Creating kin-relations with the plant world: voices and practices from community herbalism and ecological anthropology’
This panel will be with Katherine Elmer, community herbalist, educator and lecturer at UVM, and Charis Boke, environmental anthropologist at Dartmouth College. They will present their work in the community and delve in the relation-making practices among humans and more than human world. Particularly examples, knowledge and actions of community herbalism and ecological applied anthropology will discuss how to heal, connect and engage locally, under a social justice lens.
Registration link: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/aan1/2038307
Speakers:
Dr. Charis Boke (she/they) is a Research Scientist and Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology at Dartmouth College. Her current book project, Materials of the Medicine: An Ethnography of Plant-Human Relations draws on extended ethnographic fieldwork with herbalists to explore histories of colonization and the racialized segregation of medical knowledge about plant medicines. Dr. Boke is broadly interested in the politics and histories of medical knowledge and practice pertaining to bodies, plants, chemicals, environments, health, and illness. The key question my book asks is: what does it take for humans and a living earth to flourish, together, now?
Katherine Elmer, M.S. NBC-HWC is an earth priestess and ceremonialist of Celtic and Nordic descent who revels in the opportunity to connect with folks around a shared love of place and nature through whole foods nutrition and herbal medicine. She is a clinically-trained community herbalist, a national board-certified health and wellness coach at the UVM Health Center’s Comprehensive Pain Program through the Osher Center for Integrative Health, and has been teaching courses for nearly two decades on Herbal Medicine, Integrative Health and Food Systems topics at the University of Vermont and Vermont State University. Katherine completed professional herbalism training through the Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism. She manages medicinal plant gardens on UVM campus and is the faculty advisor for the UVM student Herbalism Club. Katherine is founding director and a clinical herbalist at Spoonful Herbals (a local educational non-profit) and co-founder and former co-director of Railyard Apothecary in Burlington.