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Video: The Other Side of the Gateway: Space Rocks as a Pantheist Limit-Case

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With Professor MJ Rubenstein, Dean of the Social Sciences and Professor of Religion and Science and Technology Studies at Wesleyan University

William Brewster and the Poetics of the Avifauna

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How the work of a nineteenth-century self-taught ornithologist can inform our understanding of—and response to—environmental crisis.

Video: The Quest for the Plant Script, a Talk by Author Sumana Roy

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Why have our writers, artists, thinkers, and scholars been compelled to turn their attention towards the ‘plant script’ in the last one hundred years? Beginning from Jagadish Chandra Bose’s “torulipi”—the handwriting of plants or the plant script through...

[EXTENDED] CALL FOR PAPERS: Thinking with Plants and Fungi Conference, May 15-17, 2025

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Harvard Divinity School’s (HDS) Center for the Study of World Religions is excited to announce the upcoming conference,  Thinking with Plants and Fungi: An Interdisciplinary Exploration into the Mind of Nature. This three-day academic conference will be...

Video: Conversation with Dr. Luis Eduardo Luna about the Science and Philosophy of Plant Intelligence

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Dr. Luis Eduardo is the Director of Wasiwaska, a research center in Brazil for the study of psychointegrator plants, visionary art and consciousness. On February 16, 2024, Dr. Luna presented about ethnobotanical research at his Center, learning with and...

Video: TWP&F: Planting for a Greater Community: Conversation with Rebecca McMackin

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This talk asks: how do we think about designing public spaces with human and nonhuman needs in mind? Why does it matter to plant for native species? How do our horticulture choices intersect with equity and social justice? Why does thinking about...

In the Heart of Nature: "Church of the Woods" Explores Spirituality in the Great Outdoors

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On Sunday, April 28, a diverse group of participants from the Harvard Divinity School (HDS), including students, faculty, staff and affiliates, embarked on a field trip to the unique spiritual community known as the Church of the Woods in Canterbury, New...

Taking a Closer Look at the Natural World with Prof. Don Pfister

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“The periwinkle is blooming but I’m looking here.” Professor Don Pfister said with amusement, redirecting a group of thirty, rain-gear clad participants to look away from the delicate purple-blue flowers to where green lichen had formed between bricks on...

The Science and Philosophy of Plant Intelligence: A Reflective Encounter with Dr. Luis Eduardo Luna

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On February 16th, the Center for the Study of World Religions (CSWR) at Harvard Divinity School became the meeting ground for an exploration into the realms of plant intelligence, consciousness, and the symbiosis between science and spirituality. The...