# Thinking with Plants and Fungi Conference Anthology 2025 ## Thinking with Plants and Fungi Interdisciplinary Explorations of Ecology, Mind, and the More-than-Human World ![Cover_TWPF](/sites/g/files/omnuum4346/files/styles/hwp_21_9__1920x825/public/2026-05/TWPF%20cover%20image_0.jpg?h=9e859bb2&itok=KeD51dP2) *Thinking with Plants and Fungi* brings together leading voices from science, the humanities, and the arts to explore how vegetal and fungal life challenge dominant models of consciousness, community, and ecological care. Building on a landmark 2025 conference and years of interdisciplinary collaboration at the Center for the Study of World Religions at Harvard Divinity School, this volume examines the entanglements of mind and matter, nature and culture, human and more-than-human. Essays investigate topics including plant neurobiology, theology, philosophy, decolonial botany, fungal ethics, and the poetics of sessility. Featuring scientists, philosophers, artists, and practitioners, *Thinking with Plants and Fungi* models a transformative form of inquiry for an age of ecological crisis. ![Cover_TWPF](/sites/g/files/omnuum4346/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/2026-05/TWPF%20cover%20image_0.jpg?itok=20LBmCC4) Download an open-access digital copy (forthcoming) [Purchase a fine print copy](https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674305113) ## Studying [### How Science Changes Its Mind (About Plants) ](/publications/plants-fungi-2025/science-mind-schlanger)Zoë Schlanger [### Plants are Plants: Personal Reflections from a Plant Physiologist ](https://cswr.hds.harvard.edu/plants-are-plants-personal-reflections-plant-physiologist)Elizabeth van Volkenburgh [### Understanding Plant Abilities Without Animal Metaphors ](https://cswr.hds.harvard.edu/publications/plants-fungi-2025/gianoli)Ernesto Gianoli [### A Romantic Reading of Lynn Margulis’s Theory of Symbiogenesis ](https://cswr.hds.harvard.edu/publications/plants-fungi-2025/symbiogenesis-daneshvar)Samira Danesvhar ## Representing [### Vegetal Realism: Toward an Ethical Engagement with Plant Life in Contemporary Art ](https://cswr.hds.harvard.edu/publications/plants-fungi-2025/vegetal-realism-aloi)Giovanni Aloi [### Corpsing: Two Flowers Perform the Smell of Death ](https://cswr.hds.harvard.edu/publications/plants-fungi-2025/reimagining-plants-parkinson)Siôn Parkinson [### Morel Ideals: Having Your Anthropocentrism and Eating It Too ](https://cswr.hds.harvard.edu/publications/plants-fungi-2025/morel-ideas-jones)Lacey Jones ## Contemplating [### The Vegetal and the Manifold: Agnes Arber’s Botanical Panentheism ](https://cswr.hds.harvard.edu/publications/plants-fungi-2025/vegetal-manifold-erickson)Jacob Erickson [### ‘In Contemplation of a Simple Moss’: Bryophytes, Piousness, and Re surrection in Colonial Botany ](https://cswr.hds.harvard.edu/publications/plants-fungi-2025/mossy-imaginaries-ayers)Elaine Ayers [### The Prayer of the Heliotrope ](https://cswr.hds.harvard.edu/prayer-heliotrope)Charles Stang [### Tree Obsessions: Glimpsing the Ephemeral in Long - Lived Plants of the Arnold Arboretum ](https://cswr.hds.harvard.edu/tree-obsessions-glimpsing-ephemeral-long-lived-plants-arnold-arboretum)William Friedman ## Becoming [### Thinking with Mold: Metabolizing the Planet in a Changing Climate ](https://cswr.hds.harvard.edu/publications/plants-fungi-2025/planet-mold-cross)Jamie Cross [### Becoming More Vegetal, Energywise ](https://cswr.hds.harvard.edu/publications/plants-fungi-2025/vegetal-energy-marder)Michael Marder [### How to Do Cities with Plants ](https://cswr.hds.harvard.edu/how-do-cities-plants)Emanuele Coccia ## Reading & Writing [### How Are We Still Reading? Textual Sessility and Futurity ](https://cswr.hds.harvard.edu/publications/plants-fungi-2025/textual-sessility-culpepper)Abigail Culpepper [### Plants and Place: Cultivating Un/Belonging through Vegetal Tropes ](https://cswr.hds.harvard.edu/publications/plants-fungi-2025/plants-place-jacob-kranz)Joela Jacobs [### Notes on Narration: Species, Ecosystems, and Scale in Environmental Storytelling ](https://cswr.hds.harvard.edu/publications/plants-fungi-2025/notes-narration-lee)Jessica J. Lee ## Remembering [### An Elegy for Invasive Species ](https://cswr.hds.harvard.edu/publications/plants-fungi-2025/banu-elegy)Banu Subramaniam [### Sensing and Censing with Copalli: Continuity of Sacred Tree Resin in Nahua Religion ](https://cswr.hds.harvard.edu/publications/plants-fungi-2025/copal-resin-mendoza-delacruz)Rebecca Mendoza and Sabina Cruz de la Cruz ## Stewarding [### Growing a Garden Movement ](https://cswr.hds.harvard.edu/publications/plants-fungi-2025/horticulture-for-masses-mcmackin)Rebecca McMackin [### Pray Into That Tree: An Interview with Chief Mak'wala Rande Cook ](https://cswr.hds.harvard.edu/publications/plants-fungi-2025/scott_cook)Natalia Schwien Scott and Rande Cook [### Fungal Activism and Sovereignty in Ethnomycology ](https://cswr.hds.harvard.edu/publications/plants-fungi-2025/fungal-furci)Giuliana Furci ## Listening [### Symbiotic Resonances: Sounding More-than-human Worlds ](https://cswr.hds.harvard.edu/publications/plants-fungi-2025/symbiotic-koeva)Elitza Koeva [### An Epilogue on Entangled Knowing: Science, Spirit, and the Lives of Plants ](https://cswr.hds.harvard.edu/epilogue-entangled-knowing-science-spirit-and-lives-plants)Monica Gagliano #### Suggested Citation *Thinking with Plants and Fungi: Interdisciplinary Explorations of Ecology, Mind, and the More-than-Human World*, edited by Rachael Petersen, Russell Powell, and Natalia Scott Schwein. Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard Divinity School, 2026. #### Licensure *Thinking with Plants and Fungi Conference Anthology 2025* operates under the[ Creative Commons License CC-BY-NC](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/). Under Creative Commons license, authors retain copyright to their articles. A CC-BY-NC license enables reusers to distribute, remix, adapt, and build upon the material in any medium or format for noncommercial purposes only, and only so long as attribution is given to the creator. All authors publishing in the *Anthology* have accepted these terms of publication.