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The 2025 conference brought together interdisciplinary scholars, artists, practitioners, and culture keepers to explore the relationship between humans and the more-than-human world through the lens of plant and fungal life. Thinking with Plants and Fungi: An Interdisciplinary Exploration into the Mind of Nature invited participants to reflect on how plants and fungi challenge dominant assumptions about consciousness, cooperation, and coexistence in the face of ecological and social crises.

Following in the tradition of the Center for the Study of World Religions' engagement with emerging conversations on ecology, spirituality, and mind, the conference featured keynote talks and panel discussions with leading voices across the sciences, humanities, and social sciences. Speakers included Merlin Sheldrake, Giuliana Furci, Emanuele Coccia, Banu Subramanian, Jessica J. Lee, Zoë Schlanger, Monica Gagliano, Michael Marder, and others.

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Abigail Culpepper is a doctoral candidate in the Department of French and Francophone Studies at Brown University. With an attention to textuality, their research focuses on problems of ecocritical reading and questions of literary scale. Informed by eco-deconstruction and new materialism, her dissertation entitled “Figures of Sessility: Reading Plants, Poems, and Other Still Things” argues for literary critical reading as a mode of environmental engagement in which flowering plants, lichen, and coral become models for a new textual ecology.