The scientific program includes plenary lectures, posters, round tables and symposiums. It is an international forum open to botanists, anthropologists, ethno linguists, historians, archaeologists, and everybody wishing to participate in focussed discussions on the current state of research related to human being and plant interaction.

According to decisions made in the third edition of ICEB, in Naples, the official languages of the congress will be English and Spanish. Therefore, we encourage authors to present audio-visual material in a different language from that employed in the speech.

complete program and schedule

Confirmed Lectures

• Dr. Will McClatchey, lectura devoted to the memory of Dr. Nina Etkin. A Mouthful of Diversity: Cider production around the world and conservation of traditional apple cultivar diversity.
• Dr. Eduardo H. Rapoport, "La geografía de los gustos culinarios"
• Dra. Elaine Elisabetsky, "Tradition, folk-lore or know-how? Traditional knowledge as basis for technological innovation"
• Dr. Alain Touwaide, "History of Botany as Ethnobotany. Proposals toward a New Approach to the Ancient Legacy"
• Ing. Agr. Julián Cámara Hernández, "Las Tradiciones culinarias de los pueblos del noroeste argentino como base de la conservación de la diversidad de los maíces nativos"
• Dr. K. Husnu Can BASER. Wild Food Plants of Turkey
• Dr. Javier Caballero, "Managing plant diversity by indigenous peoples: change and persistence"

 Symposiums  

• Wollenscroft, Valamonti, Capparelli. Recent Research In Post-Harvest Traditions In Human Prehistory: Old And New World Palaeoethnobotanical Approaches To Linking The Archaeology And Ethnobotany Of Plant Processing. Download
• Lidia Burry, Matilde Trivi De Mandri ,Cecilia Perez De Micou.Hacia Una Integración De Metodologías Para Optimizar El Estudio Del Hombre Con Su Ambiente. Download
• Ramón Morales.Labiadas Americanas Y Del Viejo Mundo. Intercambio De Usos. Download
• Laure Emperaire. La construcción de la diversidad agrícola. Download
• Ulysses Albuquerque, Marta Crivos. Aspectos epistemológicos y metodológicos de la investigación acerca de las relaciones poblaciones humanas-entorno vegetal. Estado de la cuestión y perspectivas. Download

 Round Tables 

• Norma Hilgert. The Ethnobotany of the new generation (only for Ph.D. graduate within the last five years). Please meet in touch Dr. Norma Hilger (normahilgert@yahoo.com.ar) Download
• Michael Heinrich. Pharmaceuticals and herbal medicines? Losing or developing traditional knowledge? Áreas. Download

 Subject areas of oral presentations

• Session 1. Ecological Ethnobotany. Management and conservation
• Session 2. Cognitive Ethnobotany
• Session 3. Sex and age
• Session 4. Phytotherapy and Medicinal Plants
• Session 5. Domestication
• Session 6. Complementary methodologies
• Session 7. Human ecology and plants
• Session 8. Transformations in ethnobotany: multicultural contexts
• Session 9. Plant Resources, fungi or algae, of value to Humankind.
• Session 10. Palaeoethnobotany
• Session 11. Historical Ethnobotany