Tue 17.9

18.00

Public talk

Nataša Kramberger (Berlin and Maribor) reads and talks about her essay “Mauerpfeffer” (in German)

MFEA in cooperation with the Ethnological Association South Tyrol, EVAA and garden center Schullian.

Wed 18.9

9.00 – 9.15

9.15 – 9.45

Welcoming Dorothy Zinn (MFEA, unibz)

Introduction to the Symposium Almut Schneider (HES-SO Vallais) and Elisabeth Tauber (MFEA, unibz)

9.45 – 10.15

Prologue: A Melanesian provocation. Marilyn Strathern (Cambridge)

10.15 -11.15

“Garden Magic” Revisited: Cultivating Landscapes of Memory in Indigenous Amazonia. Lewis Daly (UCL London)

Break

11.30 – 12.30

From prison island to species garden: history, ecology, and human – more-than-human relationships on the Asinara island (Sardinia). Stefan Festini-Cucco (unibz)

Lunch

14.00– 15.00

Verdant aesthetics of alpine grass gardens – Perspectives from European mountain agriculture. Almut Schneider (HES-SO Valais) and Elisabeth Tauber (unibz)

Break

15.15 – 16.15

Trobriand kamkokola and debt in a northern Javanese fishery: contrasting horizons. Katharina Schneider (Independent Researcher)

Break

16.30– 17.30

17.30 – 18.00

Invisible Presences and Moving Landscapes: Fire and Grazing as Ecosystem Shifters in the Italian Apennines. Andrew S. Mathews (UC Santa Cruz)

Wrap Up

19.00

Dinner

Thu 19.9

9.30 – 10.30

“Les ancêtres sont notre engrais”: Belep gardens and their magic (New Caledonia). Lara Giordana (University of Turin)

Break

10.45 – 11.45

Land and the potentials of personhood in upland Laos. Guido Sprenger (University of Heidelberg)

Break

12.00 – 13.00

Final discussion

Lunch

14.30 – 16.45

Visit to Oberbozen/Soprabolzano

18.00 – 19.30

Public Talk

Andrew S. Mathews (UC Santa Cruz), Come gli alberi che cambiano forma hanno convinto gli esseri umani a rimodellare i paesaggi italiani. (in Italian)

MFEA in cooperation with the Nature Museum South Tyrol and Südtiroler Bildungszentrum, Working Group Pasture culture.