“Plants and multispecies history. New Perspectives on Research and Storytelling”, Université de Genève, 25.10.2023. https://www.unige.ch/lettres/istge/unites/hco/actualites/plants-and-multispecies-history-new-perspectives-research-and-storytelling

Boehi, Melanie. “A sound archive ethnography: biographical artefacts, acoustic portraits and echoes of absent recordings in the archive of journalist Ruth Weiss”, Liberia Workshop, Junior Research Group Team Meeting, University of the West Indies, Barbados, 14.02.2023.

Boehi, Melanie, “Mediating the Ruth Weiss archives,” 3rd Annual Cluster Conference of the Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence, University of Bayreuth/Rhodes University/online, 08.07.2022.

Boehi, Melanie, “Journalists as historians: A case study of Ruth Weiss’ production of southern African history,” Meeting of the African Studies Association in Africa, University of Cape Town/online, 15.04.2022.

Boehi, Melanie, “Revisiting empire in a Southern African plant collection,” HSS 2021 Annual Meeting, online, 19.11.2021.

Boehi, Melanie, “‘A sense of moving with the news’: The journalism education of Ruth Weiss,” podcast based on working paper for the online exhibition of the conference “Métiers et Professions des médias” (cancelled due to Covid-19), University of Lausanne, 01.07.2021. https://catima.unil.ch/sphm2020/fr/contributions/28604.

Boehi, Melanie, and Phakamani m’Afrika Xaba, “New shoots from colonial roots: History and possible futures in the Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden,” lecture series ”Cultural Landscapes,” School of Architecture, Planning and Geomatics, University of Cape Town, online, 26.05.2021.

Boehi, Melanie, “The Jaftha’s Flower Farm: caring for roots and routes in a Cape Town hinterland,” conference “Hinterlands: A Project in the Rural, Literary and Environmental Humanities,” Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA) and Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (WISER), online, 3-4 June 2021.

Boehi, Melanie, “Colonial landscape at Kirstenbosch,” School of Architecture and Planning, University of the Witwatersrand, 28.02.2020.

Boehi, Melanie, “History of Botanical Gardens and Decolonization,” Horticultural Enrichment Forum (HEF) 2019, Johannesburg, 03.09.2019.

Boehi, Melanie, “Geschichte zuhören: Die Tonsammlung der Journalistin Ruth Weiss” (Listening to history: the sound collection of journalist Ruth Weiss), working paper presented in the panel “Macht der Reichtum an Quellen die Archive arm? Audiovisuelles Material in Forschung, Lehre und Öffentlichkeit,” organised by Gregor Spuhler and Christian Koller, 5th Swiss Congress of Historical Sciences, University of Zurich, 05.06.2019.

Boehi, Melanie, “Refiguring botanical collections: history, knowledge production and social justice,” conference “Infoclio.ch-Tagung: Provenienz und Geschichtswissenschaft,” Berne, 08.11.2019.

Boehi, Melanie, Roundtable “Provenienz – der Beitrag der Geschichtswissenschaften?” with Erich Keller, Nicolas Bancel, Pierre-Louis Blanchard, Melanie Boehi, moderated by Anna Schmid, conference “Infoclio.ch-Tagung: Provenienz und Geschichtswissenschaft,” Berne, 08.11.2019.

Boehi, Melanie, “Reimagining conservation in the African Anthropocene,” 41st Fynbos Forum, Baardskeerdersbos, 05.08.2019.

“Conversation about botanical gardens and collections with Melanie Boehi and Christoph Neinhuis,” public programme of Tanzkongress 2019 “Down by the Water,” Dresden, 08.06.2019.

Boehi, Melanie, “Storytelling in the language of flowers: new stories about Cape Town and the African Anthropocene,” conference “Multispecies Storytelling in Intermedial Practices,” Linnaeus University, Växjö, 24.01.2019.

Boehi, Melanie, “Vegetal energy and flower power: reconsidering plants in African history,” African Studies Association (ASA) Meeting, Atlanta, 30.11.2018.

Boehi, Melanie, “Storytelling in the language of flowers,” Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia conference “Terms of Engagement,” Johannesburg, 08.09.2018.

Boehi, Melanie, “A South African social garden: people, plants and multispecies histories in the Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden,” 12th conference of the European Society for Literature, Science and the Arts (SLSAeu), University of Copenhagen, 17.06.2018.

Boehi, Melanie, “Cape Town Floriography,” international workshop “Public History and Memory,” University of Basel, 26.04.2018.

Boehi, Melanie,“Comment on the presentation of Steffi Marung: Ein sowjetisches Afrika – aber wo liegt es? Über die Schwierigkeiten einer transregionalen Studie,” annual conference of the Basel Graduate School of History, University of Basel, 22.03.2018.

Boehi, Melanie, “New paradigms for researching Africa’s past: Round table in honour of Patrick Harries (1950-2016),” 7th European Conference on African Studies (ECAS), Basel, 01.07.2017.

Boehi, Melanie, “Plant histories of fencing: multispecies makings of Van Riebeeck’s Hedge, 1660-2017,” 7th European Conference on African Studies (ECAS), Basel, 30.07.2017.

 “The poetic potential of archives: a conversation with artist Talya Lubinsky,” lunch talk and moderated conversation, Basler Afrika Bibliographien, Basel, 16.06.2017.

Boehi, Melanie, “Multispecies histories of South African colonial formations,” Corner College, Zurich, 25.04.2017.

“Journalism and the archive: a conversation with journalist and The Con co-editor Niren Tolsi,” lunch talk and moderated conversation, Basler Afrika Bibliographien, Basel, 14.03.2017.

Boehi, Melanie, “Kultivierung von Natur und Nation in den Nationalen Botanischen Gärten in Südafrika im 20. und 21. Jahrhundert,” Kolloquium Forschungsprobleme der aussereuropäischen Geschichte und der frühneuzeitlichen Geschichte (collequium on research problems in extra-European history and history of the early modern period), University of Duisburg-Essen, 24.01.2017.

Boehi, Melanie, “Politics of displaying plants and knowledge in the Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden,” Inspire 2016 Sustainable Futures: Green Medicine Symposium “Interfaces: Sciences, Humans, Plants,” University of the Western Cape, 09.09.2016.

Boehi, Melanie, “Gardening with Rhodes, dinosaurs and African huts: the making of space, time and museums at the Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden,” University of Minnesota International African Studies Conference “Fault lines: rethinking temporal and disciplinary traditions in African studies,” University of Minnesota-Twin City Campus, 22.04.2016.

Boehi, Melanie, “The South African botanical complex and its museums,” 58th Meeting of the African Studies Association (ASA), San Diego, 21.11.2015.

Boehi, Melanie, “‘White space’ at the Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden,” South African Contemporary History and Humanities Seminar, University of the Western Cape, 06.10.2015.

Boehi, Melanie, “Natureculture-cityness at the Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden, Cape Town,” 6th European Conference on African Studies (ECAS), Paris, 08.07.2015.

Boehi, Melanie, “Cape Town floriography,” international workshop “Research, exhibitions and African history,” University of Basel, 25.10.2014.

Boehi, Melanie, “Flower diplomacy,” Sociology and Anthropology Research Seminar, University of the Western Cape, 10.10.2014.

Boehi, Melanie, “The ambiguous symbolism of flowers, gardens and botany in South Africa in the 20th and 21st centuries,” international workshop “The politics of nature and science in African history,” University of Basel, 16.05.2014.

Boehi, Melanie, “Take home a living piece of history,” 5th African History Day, University of Basel, 09.11.2013.

Boehi, Melanie, “Botanical archives, libraries and forms of knowledge,” international workshop “Explorations in the history of natural science in Africa,” University of Basel, 02.10.2013.

Boehi, Melanie, Final discussion at the conference “Die Sprachen der Blumen: Medien floraler Kommunikation,” University of Erfurt, 28.09.2013 (invited).     

Boehi, Melanie, “Telling history in the ‘language of flowers’? Unconventional ways of presenting academic work and increasing the ‘flow of research’,” 14th Annual Researching Africa Day Workshop, University of Oxford, 23.02.2013.

Boehi, Melanie, “The ‘Cape Town flower sellers’, heritage production and urban life in Cape Town,” 2. Blumen-Workshop, University of Basel, 16.02.2013.

Boehi, Melanie, “Studying the political and cultural history of flowers: thoughts from floral spaces in Switzerland and South Africa,” Swiss Congress of Historical Sciences, University of Fribourg, 08.02.2013.

Boehi, Melanie, “Exhibiting nature in the Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden, Cape Town, 1913-2013,” Swiss Researching Africa Days, University of Berne, 19.10.2012.

Boehi, Melanie, “The South African botanical complex: botany, horticulture and floriculture in Cape Town in the 20th Century,” international workshop “Explorations in the social history of science in Africa and India,” University of Basel, 17.10.2012.

Boehi, Melanie, “The Adderley Street flower market, floral spaces and archives in Cape Town,” conference “Archives of post-independent Africa and its diaspora,” CODESRIA, Dakar, 21.06.2012.

Boehi, Melanie, “Botanical gardens and other floral spaces: an introduction to the archives of the South African botanical complex,” African History Research Seminar, University of Basel, 08.05.2012.

Boehi, Melanie, “The South African botanical complex,” African History Day, University of Zurich, 21.10.2011.

Boehi, Melanie, “The South African botanical complex: botany, horticulture and floriculture as sites for the transfer of knowledge,” Blumen-Workshop, Free University of Berlin, 06.10.2011.