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Tag: Director’s Series

  • Monday, April 11, 7:00 pm – Arnold Arboretum Director’s Series: Birth- The Early History and Meaning of the Arnold Arboretum, Live and Online

    Join the Arnold Arboretum’s Director William (Ned) Friedman for the annual Director’s Series! To celebrate the Arboretum’s sesquicentennial, this year’s series will explore the Magic and Meaning of a Garden of Trees. Over the course of four sessions, we will trace the Arnold’s significance in the landscape architecture movement, value for the people of Boston, and leadership in creating global connections between plants and people. This session will include brief presentations and a moderated panel. The program is free and is offered both in person and livestreamed.

    Panelists:

    • Dr. Ethan Carr, Director of the Master’s of Landscape Architecture Program, University of Massachusetts
    • Dr. Rosetta Elkin, Academic Director of the Master’s of Landscape Architecture Program, Pratt Institute
    • Lisa Pearson, Head of the Library and Archives, Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University

    To sign up for the virtual presentation, click HERE. To sign up for the in-person event at the Weld Hill Research Building, 1300 Centre Street in Boston, click here.

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  • Monday, April 8, 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm – The New You: How Symbiosis Studies Have Undercut Biological Views of Individuality

    Scott Gilbert, Howard A. Schneiderman Professor of Biology at Swarthmore College, will speak as part of the Director’s Lecture Series at the Arnold Arboretum on Monday, April 8 beginning at 7 pm. What defines an individual? Can an animal be construed an individual if its anatomy, physiology, development, and even its immune systems depend on symbiotic microorganisms? What becomes of the genetic and evolutionary individual when inherited symbionts provide selectable variation for the host? Animal plus symbiont equals… what? Super-animal? Team? Holobiont? Have we been lumping and sorting erroneously only to learn through advances in biotechnology that individuals are really communities or, perhaps, relationships? Join us for a mind-bending presentation that may leave you reassessing your place in the biosphere.
    Free, but registration requested at www.arboretum.harvard.edu.

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