Mingcan Rong
@mingcan_rong
PhDing @BristolGeog, doing vegetal geography, enjoying visiting and working with botanic gardens 🌱 🌿🌳🌲🌴🍃🌵🪷 (she/her)
Excited to be organising a session with @matthewjbeach on ‘Practicing Vegetal Geographies: Creativities and Beyond’ for the RGS-IBG Annual Conference in Birmingham, 26-29th August 2025. Please take a look at our CFP if you’re interested in plants and creativities! 🌱
CfP: PRACTICING VEGETAL GEOGRAPHIES: CREATIVITIES & BEYOND @RGS_IBG Annual Conference 2025 Abstracts to [email protected] & [email protected] by Feb 24 2025 More: rgs.org/research/annua… @KewScience @Kew_LAA @BristolUni @QMUL @LinneanSociety
#GARDENS & #EMPIRES: conference organised by @KewScience @EnglishHeritage & @britishlibrary 27-28 June 2025. Call for papers: gardensandempires.tiiny.site @Kew_LAA @RHULHistory @RHGeoHumanities @musgalhistgroup @IHR_HistofGDLS @thegardenstrust @bgci @nationaltrust @EnvAndEmpire
I've written a piece on biofuels and the potential for plants to help us rethink relationships between energy, growth and producitivity – just out in @EnvHumanities 🌿🌳🌾 Thanks to @DollyJorgensen & Franklin Ginn for making space for this! read.dukeupress.edu/environmental-…
Despite the shape that the world is taking, I'm so excited and proud to see this work published and these voices amplified. Please read and share! @Society4ConBio @ConBiology conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/co…
My essay on what I understand as a quest for THE PLANT SCRIPT in OXFORD YEAR'S WORK IN CRITICAL AND CULTURAL THEORY, the first time PLANT THEORY has been included as a category. Open access link: track.smtpsendmail.com/9032119/c?p=p4…
NEW #funded AHRC studentship opportunity from @RHULHistory & @kewgardens: ECONOMIC BOTANY & the CHINESE MARITIME CUSTOMS SERVICE Info: royalholloway.ac.uk/studying-here/… Deadline 17-Jan-25 @TECHNEDTP @ahrcpress @RHGeoHumanities @RoyalHolloway @Kew_LAA @JaneHamlett
OnlineFirst - "Making the mos(s)t of nature? Cleantech, smart nature-based solutions, and the ‘rendering investable’ of urban moss" by @MarionErnwein and @JamesR_Palmer: @GeographyOU @BristolGeog #NatureBasedSolutions #UrbanNature #DigitalEcology #moss journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…
📢 We have a rare and exciting opportunity to become the Curator of Benmore Botanic Garden. This is a key role responsible for the overall vision, management, and presentation of the mountainside Garden. Find more details and apply: rbge.cc/Jobs @BenmoreBotGdn
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An Indigenous perspective on AI and the harm it can cause on our communities (a thread, made by me)
CFP: #EAST #ASIA & #ECONOMIC #BOTANY, 1800-1950, in-person symposium @KewGardens in collaboration with @RoyalHolloway @RHULHistory, 9-10 June 2025. Abstracts to [email protected] & [email protected] by 30/12/2024 @RHGeoHumanities @Kew_LAA @KewScience @bacs_china @BPCS_China
New PhD opportunities @KewScience for UK & overseas students: Re-storying the Sussex Weald Garden: Exotics, Empire and Ecobiography chase.ac.uk/cdas/re-storyi… Women and biodiversity: gender and the making of the Kew Fungarium, 1900-1950 sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/lca…
So impressive!! I shall read at some point this month 🥹
Really excited to share that my first ever journal article "Eutrophicated: Tracking colonial histories of phosphate matter and the Plantationocene inheritances of the River Wye" is published today in EPE: Nature and Space and is available to read for free @envplane @TechNatures
'Rave on for the Avon' – screening and panel discussion this Wednesday (23rd October), 2.30–4.30pm, Peel Lecture Theatre, School of Geographical Sciences. For more info, see: bristol.ac.uk/arts/events/20…