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#Ayahuasca may be familiar from New Age practices, travel writing, and ecotourism, but it is part of a long tradition of use by Indigenous groups in what is now South America.
New from the @PlantHumanities Lab, "Ayahuasca: Amazonian Plant Lessons": https://t.co/o8OVOKtsT0
Today at 12 pm, join us for "The Holy Rus': Concept and Religious Art with Political Connotations," a public lecture on Pochayiv Monastery and #19thCentury Ukrainian religious art: https://t.co/zZ6NpP0yiM
In collab with @NorthOfByzance and @Connected Central European Worlds.
The rebuke homily "fits into a larger trend of the Christianization and scripturalization of public life and discourse in late antiquity," says David Gyllenhaal, junior fellow in #Byzantine studies & PhD candidate in #history at @Princeton: https://t.co/qAZU9dUiql
#ScholarSunday
Bat-ami Artzi, fellow in #PreColumbian Studies, interprets and contextualizes the messianic Andean iconography a four-handled vessel known as the Vilcabamba Piece.
Read our full Q&A with Artzi: https://t.co/2Z4kT5LOF8
#ScholarSunday
The rise of #elderberry marks a growing popular desire to engage with traditional, “natural” remedies and scientific “confirmation” of elderberry’s bioactive components and potential for drug development.
With @JSTOR_Daily: https://t.co/1Fqc5hVBUR
@nih_nhlbi #PlantHumanities
Missing the vibrant hues of fresh flowers in the #garden?
Stop by #PortraitsOfPlants, our exhibition of paintings by #MargaretMee and other women botanical artists, where the colors are always fresh, like this Hippeastrum sp. Santa Caterina 💐
🎨https://t.co/RROLDBpKFS
To conserve works on paper like Margaret Mee's #BotanicalArt, they are only exhibited for short periods of time: be sure to get a glimpse of this graceful #Nematanthus in #PortraitsOfPlants before its time in the spotlight ends next week!
🎨https://t.co/5Wtdq0EI2c
#MargaretMee
Heliconias are not only visually alluring, with their sculptural bracts and stunning colors, but have also expanded our understanding of evolution.
Register for @NMNH botanist John Kress's talk on #heliconias, #art, and #science, this Friday at 3 pm EDT: https://t.co/DQS3qLvXa7
Next Friday, October 22 at 3 pm EDT, hear from @NMNH botanist W. John Kress on the interaction of #science and #art and what field observations and controlled experiments by botanists and ecologists have taught us about heliconias → https://t.co/tVeid39KGR
#PortraitsOfPlants
#OnThisDay in 1226, St. Francis of Assisi passed away. Did you know that just years after his death, Henry of Avranches composed a verse poem of Francis’s life?
Check it out in #DOML's SAINTS’ LIVES VOL. 1, from @Harvard_Press: https://t.co/0nd2OQzcb2