A new paper has been published on the knowledge and use of plants (esp. for medicine) in Albania, near the Macedonian border: Pieroni, A., A. Nedelcheva, A. Hadjari, B. Mustafa, B. Scaltriti, K. Cianfaglione, and C. L. Quave. (2014). Local knowledge on plants and domestic remedies in the mountain villages…
A new playlist “Food Monographs” is available on Dr. Quave’s TeachEthnobotany YouTube Channel. These videos were created by students enrolled in Dr. Quave’s “Food, Health and Society” course as a final project. Click here to access the free videos. Remember to subscribe to the channel to get updates as new…
The final version of a review paper on the traditional use of recreational teas in Europe is now available as an open-access article with the Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine. To access the article, click here: View at JEE Sõukand, R. C.L. Quave, A. Pieroni, M. Pardo-de-Santayana, J. Tardío, R.…
Dr. Quave will be attending an international conference on “Traditional Complementary and Alternative Medicine (TCAM)” in Abu Dhabi, UAE on December 10th, 2013. The conference, which is hosted by the Zayed Complex for Herbal Research and Traditional Medicine, has a theme of “Sustainable TCAM Development Strategies for the 21st Century”.…
Dr. Quave will present a lecture titled “Medicines from nature: Ethnobotany and the science of human health” as part of the Emory University Anthropology Department Seminar series on November 11th, 2013 in the Anthropology building, room 303 at 4:15 pm. Dr. Quave is an Associated Faculty member with the department.…
A new research article entitled “A comparison of traditional food and health strategies among Taiwanese and Chinese immigrants in Atlanta, Georgia, USA” was recently published in the Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine. Follow this link to access the article for free.
On October 31, 2013, Dr. Quave will visit Leiden University (Leiden, The Netherlands) as a guest of the Leiden BioScience Initiative to give an invited lecture in the van Leeuwenhoek Lecture series on BioScience. Quave will present on research progress being made in her lab and with collaborators in drug…
June 28-July 2, 2013. Dr. Quave will lead a workshop and present research findings at the annual meeting of the Society for Economic Botany, to be held in Plymouth England. The workshop and paper abstracts are found below: Getting Our Lessons Across to Students Saturday 29 June, 13.45-15.15 Workshop Sponsored…
June 17-21, 2013. Dr. Quave will meet with officials in the Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates) Health Authority at the Zayed Complex for Herbal Research and Traditional Medicine. Established in 1996, the ZCHRTM “is unique in the sense that under one roof it has interdisciplinary research approach and interfacing traditional…
Emory study abroad students enrolled in the Italian Studies Medical Humanities field course will visit Dr. Quave in Ginestra, Italy on June 15th to learn about the use of local wild food and medicinal plants. Visit this link for the full story (in Italian).
