Eve Bratman – Guild Monthly Meeting – Third Thursday

Pennsylvania beekeepers have long been on the front lines of confronting the spotted lanternfly outbreak. But are spotted lanternflies as disgusting, nasty, and pestilent as they were first made out to be?   In this talk, Dr. Bratman will present her forthcoming publication (accepted to Gastronomica) with her co-author, Anna Purchase (F&M class of ’26), on better understanding spotted lanternfly honey, inter-species relationality, and the changing attitudes and aesthetics surrounding learning to live with pests. They find present evidence of changing relations between beekeepers and lanternflies, and interrogate the discrete and unexpected ways in which lanternfly management and the insect itself are entangled in beekeepers’ lives.

Bio:
Eve Bratman is a political ecologist and Associate Professor of Environmental Studies in the Department of Earth & Environment at Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, PA, USA.  She is author of an award-winning book, Governing the Rainforest: Sustainable Development in the Brazilian Amazon (Oxford University Press, 2019), and has published over twenty peer-reviewed articles about the politics of pollinator protection, energy infrastructures, environmental education, and urban sustainability in venues including People and Nature, Earth Stewardship, Development and Change, Antipode, Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences, and Orion Magazine. Her next book-in-progress is tentatively called Bee Politics: Ending the War on Nature while Fighting to Save the Bees.

We meet at 7pm at St. James School. 🐝