Program Symposium “Plants
in Health and Culture”
February
16-17, 2004, Leiden
An
inititiative from scientists of the Faculty of Arts, Faculty of Archaeology,
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Faculty of
Mathematics and Natural Sciences, the symposium "Plants in Health and
Culture" deals with the knowledge, use and role of plants, wild or
cultivated, in health care systems,
herbaria and gardens, in various cultures.
Day 1: Monday 16 February. Venue: Gorlaeus Laboratoria, Einsteinweg 55, Leiden
From
8:30: coffee/tea and registration
9:30
– 10:00
Opening Session: F. Saris, Dean, Faculty of
Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Leiden University
Session
1
Plants
and Culture. Chair: H. Beukers
In
this session different aspects of the role of plants in quite divergent
cultures, "east" and "west" and "north" and
"south", will be highlighted. It introduces the interdisciplinary area
of inquiry into the roles and uses of plants, wild or cultivated, in various
cultures.
10:00-10:30:
L.J. Slikkerveer (Leiden University): Bio-Cultural Plant
diversity in Shaman transformative knowledge and practice.
10:30-11:00:
C. Lionis (University of Crete): Medicinal plants in health and healing in
rural Crete, Greece.
Coffee/tea break: 11:00-11:30
11:30-12.00:
K. Take (Leiden University, CNWS): The Role of Plants in Ñuu
Sau (Mixtec) Medicine (Mexico).
12.00-12:30:
L. Zuyderhoudt (Leiden University, CNWS): Plants of the Plain Indians.
Lunch Break: 12:30-14:00
Session 2
Psychoactive
Plants in Ritual and Religion. Chair: J. Slikkerveer
This
session and session 6 will consider the role of plants as source of compounds
that have an effect on the human mind in various ethnocultural backgrounds.
14:00-14:30:
D. Flattery (University of California, Berkeley): Central Asian ritual and
psychoactive plants.
14:30-15:00:
J.E.M. Houben (Paris/Leiden): The ritual of the Soma juice:
physiological and conceptual construction of transformative experience.
15:00-15:30:
C.C. Bakels (Leiden University): Papaver
somniferum culture in prehistory and early
history.
Coffee/Tea break: 15:30-16:00
Session 3
Gardens
and Herbaria. Chair: J.E.M. Houben
The
role of gardens and herbaria in the history of science, art and culture will be
considered in this session.
16:00-16:30: P. Baas (Nationaal Herbarium Nederland): Historical and modern
motives for plant exploration in South-East Asia. (N.B. This lecture has been
shifted from Tuesday.)
16:30-17:00: G. van Uffelen (Leiden
University) & R. Ek (Utrecht University): Netherlands’ oldest
herbarium and botanical garden: links to traditional medicine.
Forum discussion
17:00-17:45:
Forum on: Strategies and synergies in teaching and research on plants in health
and culture. Chair: F. Saris, Dean, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences,
Leiden University.
Day
2 of the
Symposium “Plants in Health and Culture”
also
being the
14th symposium ALW-discussion group "Secundair
metabolisme in plant en plantencel"
From
8:30: coffee/tea and registration; mounting posters
Session
4
Plants in
the History of Medical Applications. Chair: R. Verpoorte
The
focus of this session is on the historical dimension of the use of plants in
various medical knowledge systems.
9:00-9:30:
P.U. Unschuld (Ludwig-Maximillians-Universität,
München):
Plants and the culture of health and politics. Two thousand years of Chinese
pharmaceutical history.
9:30-10:00:
A.K. Ibui (National Museums of Kenia, Nairobi): Medicinal, aromatic &
cosmetic plants in Meru, Kenya.
10:00-10:30:
I. Vandebroek (Leiden University): Historical perspectives on the medicinal plants in the Bolivian Andes and Amazon.
Coffee/Tea break: 10:30-10:45
10:45-11:15:
H. Beukers (Leiden University): Japanese plant collections in the context of
early nineteenth century medicine.
11:15-11:45:
Mei Wang (TNO, Leiden). Novel approaches to study traditional Chinese
medicines.
11:45-12.45: Poster session
Lunch Break: 12:45-14:00
Session 5
Wild
and Domesticated Plants in Nature and Society.
Chair: P. Baas
The
importance of traditional knowledge and uses of wild and domesticated plants for
the exploration of novel applications.
14:00-14:30:
D.J. Mabberley (Royal Botanical Gardens, Sydney): Hesperides to Lemon-Aids: the
ethnobotany of Citrus.
14:30-15:00: E. de Jong (New
York/Leiden University):
Earth
on their hands: gardeners, plants and gardening. (N.B. this lecture has been
shifted from Monday).
15:00-15:30: T. van Andel (Netherlands
Biodiversity Information Facility, Amsterdam):
The use of plants in
the daily medical practice of the peoples of the Guyanas.
Coffee/Tea break: 15:30-16:00
Session
6
Psychoactive
plants in ritual and religion, II. Chair: C.C. Bakels
16:00-16:30:
R. Verpoorte (Leiden University): Ethnopharmacology as source of drugs.
16:30-17:00:
A. Hazekamp (Leiden University): Medicinal uses of Cannabis, from past to
present.
17:00-17:30: Conclusion and valediction
Advance registration before January
31 as regular or student participant is required. Registration fee including
contribution for lunches is € 30, with student ID € 12. The costs for one day
are respectively € 15 and € 6. Those who want to present a poster on the second
day should register and send an abstract (ca. 250 words, not more than 1 page
with letter size 12) per Email before 15 January. In view of the limited number
of places, early registration is strongly recommended.
Further information:
m.rozing@let.leidenuniv.nl, or
j.e.m.houben@let.leidenuniv.nl
See also the website
http://www.plantsinhealthandculture.nl/
Organising committee Plants in Health and Culture:
Prof. Pieter
Baas, National Herbarium of the Netherlands.
Prof. Corrie
Bakels, Faculty of Archeology, Leiden University.
Prof. Harm
Beukers, Leiden University Medical Centre.
Prof. Jan
Houben, EPHE, Paris/Institute Kern, Leiden.
Prof. Jan
Slikkerveer, Leiden Ethnosystems And Development Programme, Leiden University.
Prof. Rob
Verpoorte, Insitute of Biology Leiden, Leiden University.
Acknowledgements:
The
organisation of this symposium was made possible by:
Erasmus,
European Union
Faculty of
Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Leiden University
International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS)
Leiden
Ethnosystems And Development Programme (LEAD), Leiden University
Leiden
University
Leids
Universiteits Fonds (LUF)
National
Herbarium of the Netherlands
Netherlands
Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), Earth and Life Sciences
(updated 14 february 2004)