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22 Apr 2026 09:00

(Up)Rooted: Plants, People, and the Movement of Life

Sant'Erasmo, Venice

(Up)Rooted: Plants, People, and the Movement of Life
April 21 - 22 2026

April 21, 2026
Sala delle Trifore, San Sebastiano

10.30 - 12.30 ‘Literally’ Rooted: Plant Narratives in Sinophone Literature
Nicoletta Pesaro (Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia)
Beyond Metaphor: Plant Ontologies and Relational Agency in Can Xue’s Fiction

Mario De Grandis (Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia)
Living Origins: Ethnobotanical Perspectives in the Creation Myths of China’s Ethnic Groups

Marta Bianco (Università di Napoli L’Orientale)
Flowers, Trees and Seeds: A Symbolic Grammar of Plant Imagery in the Poetry of Wangxiu Caidan

Federica Passi (Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia)
How Plants Write: Vegetal Agency and Literary Form in Re-Reading Taiwan Nature Writing

14.30 - 17.00 Vegetal Worlds, Cultural Landscapes
Peng Shuai Paolo (independent artist)
Economadism: Lands of Care from Xiangtan to the Oltrepò Pavese

Leone Contini (NABA)
Unstable Lands

Luca Battisti (Università degli Studi di Torino)
Vegetal geography and Nature-based Solutions

April 22, 2026
Sant'Erasmo

Meeting at 9.00 am at imbarcadero D Fondamente Nove

10.30 - 12.30 Luca Battisti (Università degli Studi di Torino)
Vegetal Geographies - an Exercise

12.30 - 14.00 Lunch

14.00 - 15.30 Anja Dimitrijević (Università Iuav di Venezia) and Laura Santini (Accademia Albertina di Belle Arti di Torino)
Intertidal Practice - Soundwalk

15.30 - 17.00 Closing

Registration deadline: April 19 at 6.00 p.m. (CET)

Organising and Scientific Committee
Chiara Bartoletti and Rita Mancini (39th cycle), Giacomo Cacciaguerra (40th cycle), Lu Lin (41st cycle), PhD candidates, Department of Asian and North African Studies, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice.

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More information about the second day logistics will be shared the day after registration closes

Organizzatore

Department of Asian and North African Studies; Department of Environmental Sciences, Informatics and Statistics

Allegati

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