Highlighting Nancy Turner
In October 18th, the Conservancy is pleased to welcome Dr. Nancy Turner to the Mayne Island Agricultural Hall as a part of our Speaker Series this autumn.
“My work has always been as a student to learn about people’s knowledge and relationships with plants and their environments and to highlight, through my writing and teaching, the importance of plants to human existence. To show in so many different ways how we are all connected with the plant world and can’t possibly live without plants. How much plants do for we humans! We don’t think about that and often take the plant world for granted, and it is at our peril we do that. We have to really, really work to recognise just how important they are to us.” – Dr. Nancy Turner, 2020 interview with Society for Ethnobotany Student Blog
You may know Dr. Nancy Turner from her Pacific Northwest ethnobotanical field books. You also may know her as an Emeritus Professor at the University of Victoria. Nancy’s scope of work is broad and cherished. She is interested in traditional knowledge systems and traditional land and resource management systems of Indigenous Peoples and has collaborated with Indigenous communities in northwestern North America for over 50 years, helping document, retain and promote their traditional knowledge of plants and habitats, foods, materials, medicines, and language relating to plants and environments. For more learning on Dr. Turner’s work, read Heather Pringle’s article In the Land of Lost Gardens, from Hakai Magazine.
Nancy’s legacy includes authoring, co-authoring and editing over 30 books, honorary degrees from Vancouver Island University, UBC, UNBC, and SFU. Her legacy as a patient, kind, deeply respectful and avid learner precedes her.
Please join us for the opportunity to listen to Dr. Turner speak on ethnobotany and ethnoecology, in the intimate setting of the Agricultural Hall. Tickets are available at our Speaker Series event page.
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