VIRTUAL EVENTS
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For members only: Taxonomy Tuesday, a local virtual foray, on Tuesday evenings, and other club virtual learning opportunities. Members will be sent an email for virtual events with their Zoom link to join the meeting. This is an all year-round event. |
Online LECTURE SERIES for 2023
Only NJMA Members will be sent a link to attend these lectures. So be sure to renew your 2023 NJMA membership.
More Lectures will be listed when their arrangements have been confirmed.
More Lectures will be listed when their arrangements have been confirmed.
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Thursday February 2, 2023 7pm
Gathering Knowledge: Mycophilia in American Culture at the Turn of the Twentieth Century Tracing popular mushroom foraging to the 1880s, this talk will discuss an early iteration of American mycophilia which brought a new population of non-professional mushroomers into the field. Like today, they sought a combination of gastronomic, scientific and personal enrichment. I argue that the mushroom fad legitimized women’s participation in citizen science by tethering foraging knowledge to elevated, economical cookery and as a public safety necessity to prevent poisoning. Enthusiastic laywomen claimed space and belonging as collectors, writers, illustrators, and club leaders. Yet while expanding opportunities for some, privileged mycologists’ insistence on certain forms of expertise fueled exclusion along class, race and ethnic lines. Ultimately, this research seeks to elucidate tensions surrounding sustenance, science and authority that remain with us to this day. |
Speaker: Madeline DeDe-Panken is a Ph.D. Candidate in U.S. History at The Graduate Center CUNY. With broad interests in negotiations of gender, knowledge and authority, her research explores scientific and sustenance mushroom foraging at the turn of the twentieth century. She has held fellowships at the New York Botanical Garden and New-York Historical Society Center for Women's History and currently resides in the Boston area, where she works at The Mushroom Shop helping people take full advantage of edible varieties.
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Sunday April 30, 2023 (Time TBD)
Mycological Illustration: History, Techniques, Problems In his lecture, Christian Volbracht will give an overview of the history of illustration of fungi in printed books. He will present numerous examples of printed drawings and paintings of mushrooms from Europe, America and Asia, covering five centuries, from 1491 to the present. He will explain the various printing techniques from woodcuts to colored copper engravings to colored lithography and modern printing, describing the progress of the different illustration methods. Of particular interest are the colored copper engravings of fungi in the 18th century by Bulliard, Sowerby and Schaeffer, which are still important today as first diagnoses of new species. Volbracht will also go over problems which can arise when using the old figures of mushrooms. |
Speaker: Christian Volbracht is a German journalist, amateur mycologist, and author and specialist in old mushroom literature. He has worked as a news journalist for the German Press Agency dpa for more than 40 years, including ten years as head of the agency's Paris office. Parallel to his career as a journalist, he collected mushroom books, compiled an important private library and built an online shop for antiquarian mushroom books. Eventually, he published MykoLibri, a comprehensive illustrated bibliography of his collection, covering works from the 15th to the 20th centuries. The two volumes of MykoLibri are now recognized as the standard bibliography for mycological literature - for collectors, dealers, researchers and librarians. Recently, Volbracht wrote a book on the scientific and cultural history of truffles. He lives in Hamburg, Germany.
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Sunday, May 21, 2023 (Time TBD)
Dung Loving Cup Fungi Dung Loving Cup Fungi is an overview of the colorful and less known species of the order Pezizales growing on dung from various animals. Genera, species, morphology and recent taxonomy will be discussed. |
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Speaker: Björn Wergen is founder and director of Schwarzwälder Pilzlehrschau, a mushroom school in Hornberg in the Black Forest, southern Germany. The school offers mycology courses and seminars from beginner to advanced levels. He has been studying fungi since 1994 and has a focus on morphology, taxonomy and photographic documentation. Wergen is author of the
monumental Handbook of Ascomycota, Volumes 1a & 1b: Pyrenomycetes s.l. (2018). |
Last Updated: 2023-02-03
