Report from the International Academic Conference “Common, Disregarded, Marginalized. Exploring New Perspectives in Anthropology of Plants” Gdańsk, May 7, 2025

Abstract

This paper presents a summary of the international academic conference “Common, Disregarded, Marginalized: Exploring New Perspectives in the Anthropology of Plants” is the title of an international academic conference held on May 7, 2025, at the University of Gdańsk, aiming to highlight previously understudied plants, practices, and places in the field of anthropology. The conference sought to provide new theoretical and methodological perspectives by focusing on the “margins of socio-cultural worlds”, such as “weeds” and ruderal plants, as well as less-studied botanical entanglements.

The event was co-financed through the project No. 2022/47/P/HS3/03403 within the POLONEZ BIS programme co-funded by the National Science Centre and the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 945339.