Seeds and Our Co-Evolved Psyches with Yuvan Aves

How is the human psyche enmeshed in the living world? How does the question “Who am I?” constellate differently depending on the ecologies it exists within?

In the final lecture of our Seeds and Structures online series, writer, naturalist, and environmental defender Yuvan Aves will explore how different encounters with seeds throughout our lives shape our psyches and, ultimately, the story of relationship we embody with the land. Drawing from his Volume 7 essay and childhood experiences of learning from seeds in Chennai, India, Yuvan will speak about how engaging with the physical forms and unique lives of seeds can impart vital political lessons and practices of attention that deepen our sense of being not separate but tightly bound with the land. He will share ideas around how this relational space can allow the places we live to sow themselves into our inner realms, where they become primary “caregivers,” offering a love and nurturance that transcends the grief and destruction of our time.  

Part of the launch of our new print edition, Volume 7: Seeds and Structures, this series offers a dynamic space to engage with radical spiritual, practical, cosmological, and ecological structures that can help us seed a future of embodied reciprocity and exchange with the Earth. We invite you to check out and register for the others in this series: Stories Are Living Structures with Aboriginal scholar Tyson Yunkaporta and The Seeds of the Long Story with acclaimed author Sophie Strand.

DETAILS

Date: Thursday November 19, 2026, 6:30–8pm PST

Format: Zoom webinar lecture followed by Q&A

Tickets: Available on a sliding scale of $5–$20 USD

Recording: A recording will be shared with all ticket holders after the event

ABOUT YUVAN AVES

Yuvan Aves is a writer, naturalist, and environmental defender based in Chennai, India. He is an active part of resistance and community movements against ecocide and industrial violence and the founder-managing trustee of Palluyir Trust for Nature Education and Research. His book, Intertidal, is the first South Asian work to be shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize. He is the recipient of the Sanctuary Asia Green Teacher Award and the M. Krishnan Memorial Nature Writing Award, among other accolades. His upcoming book Inscendence: A Journey with Insects will be published in 2027.