Winter Lecture 2024: Jonathan Drori

Around the world in 80 plants

Thursday 22 February 2024, 19:00-20:30 | £20, registration required
Lecture Theatre, Oxford University Museum of Natural History, Parks Rd, Oxford OX1 3PW

Prof Jonathan Drori CBE is a Trustee of The Eden Project, Cambridge University Botanic Garden and Cambridge Science Centre, and formerly of the Woodland Trust and the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. He is Honorary Professor of Public Understanding of Science at Birmingham University's Institute of Forest Research and an Ambassador for the WWF. As a documentary film maker for the BBC he was responsible for more than 50 prime-time science shows and documentaries. His talks on botany and science at ted.com have been viewed millions of times and his books Around the World in 80 Trees and Around the World in 80 Plants are bestsellers in more than twenty languages.

A botanical journey of beauty and botany, myth and mayhem: In this lecture, Jonathan takes you across the globe, bringing to life the science of plants by revealing how their worlds are intricately entwined with our own history, culture and folklore.

His journey includes self-mummifying monks, entrepreneurial resin diggers and the Venetian navy. It encompasses the seemingly familiar birch, beech and tomato, the exotic moojar, kauri and gutta-percha, and the eerie mandrake and Spanish ‘moss’ of Louisiana. 

 

 

Thursday 25 January
19:00–20:30

Naoko Abe
"Saving the blossom: Cherry Ingram and his rich legacy"

  
Thursday 8 February
19:00–20:30		 Raymond Blanc
An audience with Raymond Blanc

 
Thursday 22 February
19:00–20:30		 Jonathan Drori
"Around the world in 80 plants"		  
Thursday 7 March
19:00–20:30		 Juliet Sargeant
"Garden stories – connecting people with landscape"		  
Tuesday 19 March
19:00–20:30		 Rachel de Thame
"A wholistic approach to gardening for wellbeing and wildlife"		  

Our Winter Lecture series invites speakers from the world of horticulture, botany and beyond.
All talks take place in the Lecture Theatre at Oxford University's Museum of Natural History, Parks Rd, Oxford OX1 3PW (directions).
Tickets are £20 or £80 for all five talks. These lectures are live only events and will not be recorded.
A drinks reception will take place after the lecture from 20:00 until 20:30 in the beautiful surrounds of the Museum. Alcoholic and non-alcoholic options will be available.
Tickets are available until the week before the event. 
Book your place here.