Guest Speaker: Mariana Villani

Date: Thursday, November 17, 2022

Time: 7 p.m. CST

Location: Online via Zoom or YouTube

Languages: English & En Español (on zoom only)

In this presentation Mariana is going to introduce to you the world of ethnomycology, and teach you about some wonderful uses of mushrooms around the world, ancient to modern, and how you may apply that to your life. We will go on a trip looking into different mushrooms and ecosystems, and talk about Indigenous cultures around the world and their traditional mycological knowledge, what were the main mushrooms used by our ancestors, who were the people that created the “Bee Man Shaman”, the threats fungi and people suffer, and how we can try to remediate that problem.

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ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Mariana Villani is an ethnomycologist, agroecologist, herbalist, explorer, researcher and teacher. Her focus is on preserving fungi and the traditional ecological knowledge of Indigenous peoples, traditional societies and local communities around the world. She has done projects with different Indigenous peoples in North America and collaborates on Fungi Foundation’s Elders Project. She has researched hundreds of uses of mushrooms around the world, and the threats Indigenous peoples and fungi face. She currently lives in Brazil, where she teaches classes, collaborates and does research projects with different institutes and universities.