Symposium

The symposium is held once a year. Also non-members (maybe yet to become members?) are welcome to attend the presentations on current projects.

Upcoming

Ethnobiology Symposium 2026
Sa 21.03.2026 10:00 - 15:30
  • Typ
    Symposium
  • Ort
    Room D 10.2, HIL Building, ETH-Hönggerberg, Zürich
  • Text

    Gardens of medicinal plants

    A conversation between ethnobiologists and landscape designers 

    PROGRAMM - PROGRAM

    10:00 AM - Begrüssung / Welcome (DE): Morris Keller

    10:10 AM - Ethnobotanical gardens: between plant knowledge and landscape design (EN): Annemarie Bucher and Paola Sturla

    10:20 AM - Klostergärten weiterbauen – am Beispiel der Insel Reichenau (DE): Johannes Stoffler

    10:50 AM - Ein ethnobotanischer Garten in Andorra. Eine experimentelle Entwurfsaufgabe (DE): Helin Can and Antonina Nikolic

    11:20 AM - Kaffeepause / Coffee Break

    11:35 AM - Co-creating Ethnobotanical Knowledge in Intercultural Learning and Indigenous Community Health Spaces (EN): Anaisa Garcia Ambrosy

    12.05 PM - Healing with plants: an anthropological study of medicinal plants to manage endometriosis (EN): Alice Lemma

    12:35 PM - Zusammenfassung und Diskussion / Summary and discussion

    12:50 PM - Mittagspause / Lunch Break

    01:40 PM - Geführte Gruppentouren durch die Hartwig-Sammlung und ausgewählte Gärten des Campus / Guided tours in groups to the Hartwig-Collection and to selected gardens of the campus:

    a) Führung durch die Hartwig-Sammlung: pharmakognostische Sammlung (DE): mit Juila Ecker

    b) Guided tour through selected gardens on the Hönggerberg: ethnobotanical garden, garden of the 21st century, modernist gardens by Willi Neukom, Seed City (DE - EN): mit Annemarie Bucher and Paola Sturla

    03:15 PM - Kaffeepause / Coffee Break

    03:30 PM - Generalversammlung / General assembly (DE)


    Weitere Informationen – Additional Information:
    Address: ETH HIL Building: Stefano-Franscini-Platz 5, 8093 Zurich, Switzerland
    Costs: Eintritt ist frei / Entry is free of charge - Mittagessen (optional) / Lunch (optional): CHF 15
    Anmeldung – Registration by 14.03.2026 at https://www.ethnobiology.ch/about/symposium

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Registration for the symposium 2026

I will participate online; the link will be sent a few days prior to the symposium.

Past symposium programs

Programme of the 1st Symposium of the Swiss Ethnobiology Network, Zurich, January 31, 2009

Programme_Ethnobiology_2009.pdf 30 KB

Programme of the 2nd Symposium of the Swiss Ethnobiology Network, Aarau January 30, 2010

Programme_Ethnobiology_2010.pdf 13 KB

Programme of the 3rd Symposium of the Swiss Ethnobiology Network, Neuchâtel, January 22, 2011

Programme_Ethnobiology_2011.pdf 68 KB

Programme of the 4th Symposium of the Swiss Ethnobiology Network, Basel, January 21, 2012

Programme_Ethnobiology_2012.pdf 60 KB

Programme of the 5th Symposium of the Swiss Ethnobiology Network, Bern, January 19, 2013

Programme_Ethnobiology_2013.pdf 471 KB

Programme of the 6th Symposium of the Swiss Ethnobiology Network, Fribourg, January 18, 2014

Programme_Ethnobiology_2014.pdf 81 KB

Programme of the 7th Symposium of the Swiss Ethnobiology Network, Zürich, January 24, 2015

Programme_Ethnobiology_2015.pdf 242 KB

Programme of the 8th Symposium of the Swiss Ethnobiology Network, Neuchâtel, February 27, 2016

Programme_Ethnobiology_2016.pdf 124 KB

The 9th symposium of the Swiss Ethnobiology Network was held in Lausanne on April 9, 2017

Programme of the 10th Symposium of the Swiss Ethnobiology Network, Aarau, March 10, 2018

Programme_Ethnobiology_2018.pdf 226 KB

Programme of the 11th Symposium of the Swiss Ethnobiology Network, Aarau, March 16, 2019

Programme_Ethnobiology_2019.pdf 254 KB

Programme of the 12th Symposium of the Swiss Ethnobiology Network, March 16, 2021 (online)

Programme_Ethnobiology_2021.pdf 253 KB

Programme of the 13th Symposium of the Swiss Ethnobiology Network, Lucerne, March 26, 2022

Programme_Ethnobiology_2022.pdf 264 KB

Programme of the 14th Symposium of the Swiss Ethnobiology Network, Lucerne, March 25, 2023

Programme_Ethnobiology_2023.pdf 276 KB

Programme of the 15th Symposium of the Swiss Ethnobiology Network, Zurich, March 15, 2025

Programme_Ethnobiology_2025.pdf 1'785 KB

Programme of the 16th Symposium of the Swiss Ethnobiology Network, Zurich, March 21, 2026

Programme_Ethnobiology_2026.pdf 963 KB