TWPF Programming

When hundreds gathered at the Harvard Divinity School in May for a three-day conference on the sentient lives of plants and fungi, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emily Dickinson, Henry David Thoreau, and generations of Indigenous people may not only have recognized...

Postdoctoral fellow Elitza Koeva presented her artwork at "Phantom Tree," an exhibition at 92 Seattle Street in Allston, MA as part of the Thinking with Plants and Fungi Conference. The exhibition and the conference explored how plants and fungi help us...

Partnership Announcement & Call for Applications Sponsored by the Thinking with Plants and Fungi Initiative in partnership with the Awi’nakola Foundation  The Thinking with Plants and Fungi (TWPF) Initiative at the Center for the Study of World Religions...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

“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...