Events
Living Connections: Rethinking Our Relationship with Trees, Waters, and the Natural World
Join SUNY Press authors Akiko Busch, David Macauley, and Laura Pustarfi for a lively Earth Day discussion moderated by Ezra Zubrow.
Psychedelic Culture Panel - Back to the Roots: Ancestral Solutions for Ecological Restoration
I will be participating in a panel at Chacruna Institute’s Psychedelic Culture conference.
Journal Club #23: Inner Healing Intelligence
I will be participating with my co-authors, Keith Williams and Andrée-Anne Bédard, in the journal club with the OPEN Foundation.
Making Kin with Trees: A Conversation with Solvejg Nitzke
I will be moderating a conversation with author and scholar Solvejg Nitzke about her new book Making Kin with Trees: A Cultural Poetics of Interspecies Care.
Arboreal Apiculture Salon
I will be speaking at the Arboreal Apiculture Salon, and please join this free event.
The Wisdom of Trees: Thinking Through Arboreality - An Online Book Launch Hosted by the Department of Ecology, Spirituality and Religion
Join Chantal Noa Forbes of the Ecology, Spirituality, and Religion program in a conversation on arboreality with David Macauley and Laura Pustarfi.
The Wisdom of Trees: A conversation with David Macauley and Laura Pustarfi
Join me for this free online conversation with David Macauley on our new volume, The Wisdom of Trees: Thinking Through Arboreality.
Panel on Nature Interconnectedness: Ecology, Spirituality, & Psychedelics
I will be moderating a panel on ecology, spirituality, and psychedelics at Chacruna Institute’s Psychedelic Culture conference.
Plants and the Unified Field: A Conversation with Pete Yeo
Join this free online conversation with plant writer and nature mentor Pete Yeo exploring new and ancient perspectives about plants.
The Vegetal Turn: A Conversation with Marcello Di Paola
Join us for this free online conversation with Marcello Di Paola in a conversation about his important newly edited book The Vegetal Turn: History, Concepts, Applications.
Consciousness & Plants
I will be presenting Consciousness and Plants at MQ Academy in Zürich, Switzerland.
A Vegetal Turn for Psychedelic Plants and Fungi
I will be presenting on a "vegetal turn" for psychedelic plants and fungi at the ALPS conference.
Kinship with Psychedelics: Plants and Fungi in the Therapeutic Relationship with Dr. Keith Williams
I will be presenting on relationships with psychedelic plants and fungi at the ICPR conference.
Back to the Future: Gift Logic and Sacred Responsibilities to our Plant Kin with Keith Williams
Join us for this free online conversation with scholar Keith Williams about plants as relatives, partners, and co-creators with humans.
The Plant Thieves: A Conversation with Prudence Gibson
Join us for this free online program on the new book The Plant Thieves: Secrets of the Herbarium with author Prudence Gibson.
On Journeying Into the Landscapes of Our Ancestors: A Conversation With James Canton and Laura Pustarfi
Join me for an inspiring conversation with James Canton, author of Grounded, exploring how the sacred can be accessed by looking to the past, to our ancestors and where and how they fostered spiritual communion with the natural world.
Vegetal Entwinements: Giovanni Aloi and Michael Marder in Conversation
Join us for this free online program on the new book Vegetal Entwinements in Philosophy and Art with editors Giovanni Aloi & Michael Marder.
Understanding Plant Intelligence with Paco Calvo and Natalie Lawrence
Join me for a conversation on the book Planta Sapiens: The New Science of Plant Intelligence with authors Paco Calvo and Natalie Lawrence.
How to Get Trained in Psychedelic Therapy
I will be presenting on training in psychedelic-assisted therapy at the Sana Symposium.
PACT Conference - Merleau-Ponty and the Silence of the Forest
I will be presenting my paper Merleau-Ponty and the Silence of the Forest at the 2022 Pacific Association for Continental Philosophy conference.
Arboreal Philosophy - MA/PhD Course at CIIS
This 1-unit course was offered at CIIS for Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness as well as Ecology, Spirituality, and Religion students in the Summer 2022 semester.
CIIS Ecology, Spirituality, and Religion Alumnae Panel
Join the CIIS Ecology, Spirituality, and Religion program for a panel with alumnae.
On the Minds of Plants with John C. Ryan, Patricia Vieira & Monica Gagliano
Join me for a conversation on the book The Mind of Plants with John C. Ryan, Patricia Vieira & Monica Gagliano.
On Our Fundamental Need for the Natural World: A Live Online Conversation with Lucy Jones and Laura Pustarfi
Join for a conversation with Lucy that is an uplifting rallying cry for a wilder way of life—for finding asylum in the soil and joy in the trees—which might just help us to save the living planet, as well as ourselves.
Uprooting the Anthropocene: (re-)centring trees in tree-human relationships Conference
I will be speaking at the Uprooting the Anthropocene: (re-)centring trees in tree-human relationships conference. My talk is Phenomenology as a Way of Relating to Arboreal Others, part of the panel New Approaches to Trees in the Humanities, on July 22nd at 12:30pm BST.
On Finding the Mother Tree: A Live Online Conversation with Suzanne Simard and Laura Pustarfi
Join scholar and CIIS staff member Laura Pustarfi for a conversation about Suzanne's life and work, her latest book, and learn more about the connectedness of the Mother Tree that nurtures the forest in the profound ways that families and human societies do, and how these inseparable bonds enable our survival.
Toward a New Way of Being with Plants
Join me for this free online conference June 17-18. I will be speaking on A Place for Trees: Toward Arboreal Rights on Friday, June 18th from 12:15 - 12:25 pm PT. I am also part of the organizing collaborative for this conference.
IAEP Presentation: Arboreality and the Ethics of Standing in Place
I will be speaking at the IAEP Conference on Oct. 10th on Arboreality and the Ethics of Standing in Place.
Spring Mindfulness in Nature Day - POSTPONED
Join us for a day of guided meditation focused on the spring equinox in a beautiful, private forest garden.
Meditation Day, Celebrating Solstice
Join Nina Horne and Laura Pustarfi, Ph.D., for a day of guided meditation in a beautiful, private forest garden.