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DESCRIPTION:We are thrilled to announce the upcoming international conferen
 ce 'La mobilité des plantes à travers le récit / Plant Mobility and Narrat
 ive” that will take place May 13-15\, 2021. Co-organized by Stephanie Post
 humus (McGill University) and Rachel Bouvet (Université du Québec à Montré
 al) in collaboration with the Montreal Botanical Gardens\, the conference 
 examines the ways in which plant mobility is narrated in a variety of lite
 rary and scientific genres. While classical views held that plants were im
 mobile in opposition to the mobility of animals and humans\, contemporary 
 botanists argue that plants are capable of moving\, wandering\, dispersing
 \, and traveling. Studies show that plants use the wind\, water\, animals 
 and humans to move and that their roots play a key role in underground exp
 lorations. Such observations are narrativized in various ways: personal an
 ecdotes about plants\, travel writing\, and many other written genres that
  all foreground language. At the same time\, plants mobilise humans in a v
 ariety of ways. Since the beginning of humanity\, plants have gotten peopl
 e moving for reasons of food\, clothing\, commerce\, spiritual belief\, po
 litics\, and the arts.\n	\n	Our conference brings together a group of intern
 ational scholars to examine the epistemological\, socio-historical\, and c
 ultural valences of plant movement. While the focus will be on contemporar
 y texts written in French by writers\, historians\, and scientists\, the c
 onference is organized around three disciplinary perspectives: 1) archeolo
 gical/anthropological to understand key historical shifts in scientific th
 inking about plants and alternative\, non-Western views on plant mobility\
 ; 2) geographical/spatial to map the movements and modes of plant mobility
  across countries and oceans in various literary and scientific texts\; 3)
  cultural/literary to examine the narrative and artistic forms used to rep
 resent plants as mobile agents. In this way\, we aim to develop an innovat
 ive\, interdisciplinary approach for understanding the ways in which writi
 ng changes and adapts to new thinking about plants\, mobility and narrativ
 e.\n	\n	Given the current pandemic\, the conference will take place on Zoom 
 and registration will happen solely by email. If you would like to receive
  the Zoom link 48 hours ahead of the conference start\, please email imagi
 nairebotanique [at] gmail.com\n	\n	More information about the conference and
  Belgian artist Sandrine de Borman’s exhibit “Joyeuses empreintes botaniqu
 es” at the Botanical Garden\, see the conference website: imaginairebotani
 que.uqam.ca\n
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SUMMARY:Conference: La mobilité des plantes à travers le récit / Plant Mobi
 lity and Narrative
URL:https://www.mcgill.ca/langlitcultures/channels/event/conference-la-mobi
 lite-des-plantes-travers-le-recit-plant-mobility-and-narrative-330697
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