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SUMMARY:AHS LIVE: Future Nature: Cultivating Resilience Amid Ecological Change
DESCRIPTION:Vegetation is shifting in response to intensifying environmental pressures—from invasive species and habitat fragmentation to rising nutrient loads and imbalanced herbivore populations. Drawing from his firm Phyto Studio’s experience with high-visibility public projects\, landscape architect Thomas Rainer shares actionable strategies for designing resilient plantings. Learn how to work with competitive dynamics\, select vigorous native species\, introduce designed stress through soil manipulation\, and embrace adaptive management models that favor abundance. This talk offers a grounded path forward for planting in a rapidly changing world. \nThomas Rainer is a leading voice in ecological landscape design\, pioneering a plant systems approach that anticipates a changing future. As a registered landscape architect based in Arlington\, Virginia\, Thomas reimagines ecological planting for gardens and public spaces\, focusing on merging ecology with horticulture to shape resilient\, adaptive landscapes that address today’s environmental challenges. His career features signature designs at landmark locations such as the Battery Park\, Toronto Botanical Garden\, and The New York Botanical Garden. He has designed over 125 residential gardens spanning from Maine to Florida. Thomas has taught planting design for the George Washington University Landscape Design program\, as well as design workshops globally. He is the co-author of the bestselling Planting in a Post-Wild World with Claudia West. \nVirtual\n$15 AHS members/$20 non-members\nAll virtual programs are in ET\nRegister Here
URL:https://ahsgardening.org/event/ahs-live-future-nature-cultivating-resilience-amid-ecological-change/
LOCATION:American Horticultural Society – AHS Live
CATEGORIES:Lecture/Talk
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SUMMARY:AHS Live: Poppy State
DESCRIPTION:Poppy State: A Labyrinth of Plants and Beginnings is both a love letter to California and a literary tour de force that tells the story of resilience and reclamation through a relationship with plants\, memory\, myth\, and indigenous knowledge. Author Myriam Gurba meditates on susto\, a spiritual sickness specific to Latin America\, and its culturally specific treatments such as herbalism\, botanical spirits\, and soil. \nMyriam Gurba is a writer and activist. Her first book\, the short story collection Dahlia Season\, won the Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction. O\, the Oprah Magazine ranked her true-crime memoir Mean as one of the “Best LGBTQ Books of All Time.” Her recent essay collection Creep: Accusations and Confessions was a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle award for Criticism and won the Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Nonfiction. She has written for the New York Times\, Los Angeles Times\, Harper’s Bazaar\, Vox\, and Paris Review. Her most recent book is Poppy State: A Labyrinth of Plants and a Story of Beginnings. \nVirtual\n$15 AHS members/$20 non-members\nAll virtual programs are in ET\nRegister Here
URL:https://ahsgardening.org/event/ahs-live-poppy-state/
LOCATION:American Horticultural Society – AHS Live
CATEGORIES:Lecture/Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260312T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260312T200000
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SUMMARY:AHS LIVE: The African Ancestors Garden
DESCRIPTION:Paul Peters\, principal at Hood Design Studio\, will share about the studio’s landscape design process for the African Ancestors Garden\, part of the International African American Museum in Charleston\, South Carolina. The garden draws inspiration from both the Lowcountry landscape and the broader African diaspora to create a tranquil environment for reflection\, learning\, and remembrance. Organized as a series of sub-gardens\, the design celebrates the artistry\, craftsmanship\, and labor of African Americans through botanical and material narratives. The African Origins Garden highlights the botanical diaspora by featuring plants commonly found throughout Southern landscapes that trace their origins to regions across Africa\, symbolizing how plant migration parallels the historical displacement and movement of people. Complementing this\, the Lowcountry Garden is rooted in the ecology of local marshlands\, incorporating native reeds\, a circular arrangement of concrete benches inspired by the contours of coastal mudflats\, and a gentle ground depression that gathers site runoff. Together\, these spaces form a contemplative memorial landscape that honors ancestral memory and offers visitors a profound connection to the enduring heritage of the African diaspora. \nHood Design Studio is a landscape architecture and social art practice based in Oakland\, California and founded by visionary landscape architect\, Walter Hood. Paul Peters\, a Principal at Hood Design Studio\, is renowned for spotlighting the intricate ties between nature and culture in his landscape designs. He transforms expansive sites into intimate spaces\, designing with sensitivity to personal memories and experiences. He is deeply invested in the conceptual phase\, seamlessly weaving broad perspectives\, conceptual thinking\, and research throughout his projects\, ultimately influencing societal perspectives. Earning his master’s in landscape architecture from the University of British Columbia\, Paul managed his own design-build firm in Vancouver for seven years. Since joining Hood Design Studio in 2016\, he’s pioneered several groundbreaking projects. Notably\, he’s contributed to the International African American Museum in Charleston\, SC\, the historic Oakland Museum of California’s renovation\, and Nvidia’s state-of-the-art campus in Silicon Valley. \nVirtual\n$15 AHS members/$20 non-members\nAll virtual programs are in ET\nRegister Here
URL:https://ahsgardening.org/event/ahs-live-the-african-ancestors-garden/
LOCATION:American Horticultural Society – AHS Live
CATEGORIES:Lecture/Talk,Virtual
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DTEND;TZID=America/Phoenix:20260307T120000
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SUMMARY:AHS LIVE: Private Garden Tour: Phoenix
DESCRIPTION:Join Scott Burdick\, board chair of Desert Botanical Garden\, for a private tour of his famed Rancho Arroyo garden! Dating to the 1920s\, this acre property was originally owned by Hubert Earle\, director of the Desert Botanical Garden. Earle filled the grounds with rare specimens brought back from Mexico\, including boojum trees\, unusual cacti\, and striking desert flora. Successive owner Virginia Cave sculpted the landscape to echo natural desert wash with native plantings\, including palo brea and several different species of cacti. Further delights include heritage ironwood\, saguaro\, and totem pole cacti\, as well as a fountain-fed\, circulating stream that attracts wildlife and nourishes the flowers and grasses. \nScott Burdick is the board chair of Desert Botanical Garden and managing partner at Wiseman and Gale\, an interior design firm based in Scottsdale\, AZ. Burdick previously worked in Treasury and Finance at Saks Fifth Avenue’s corporate headquarters\, then at global management consulting firm Mercer Management Consulting – a division of Marsh & McLennan Companies\, in a senior financial role for their European businesses. Burdick received his undergraduate degree in finance from the University of Arizona and MBA from Thunderbird. \n$40 AHS members/$50 non-members\nAll tours are listed in location’s timezone\nRegister Here
URL:https://ahsgardening.org/event/ahs-live-private-garden-tour-phoenix/
LOCATION:American Horticultural Society – AHS Live
CATEGORIES:Tour
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260306T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260306T150000
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SUMMARY:AHS LIVE: Ecological Restoration and Design
DESCRIPTION:Blackland Collaborative is an ecology-based consulting group with over 40 years of collective experience in restoring\, creating\, and conserving functional ecosystems. This program will discuss some of the Collaborative’s Texas-based landscape projects\, such as the Headwaters at the Comal and the George W. Bush Presidential Center\, to examine ecological design for native grasslands\, riparian restoration\, urban ecology\, native prairie green roofs\, landscape restoration plans at multiple scales\, and pocket prairies. \nJohn Hart Asher has over sixteen years of experience designing and building functional ecosystems within urban conditions. He has conducted basic research in ecological engineering\, ecological restoration\, and land management\, offered workshops to professionals and the public\, and provided fee-supported ecological consulting expertise to clients across Texas. As part of the consulting team\, John Hart works with integrated design teams composed of engineers\, architects\, landscape architects\, and developers to integrate sustainable design\, practices\, and philosophies into projects. He specializes in translating sustainable design into successful projects that provide varying layers of ecosystem services. His home pocket prairie has recently been featured in the newly released books: Gardens of Texas: Visions of Resilience from the Lone Star State and Gardenista: The Low Impact Garden: A Guide to Creating Sustainable Outdoor Spaces. \nVirtual\n$15 AHS members/$20 non-members\nAll virtual programs are in ET\nRegister Here
URL:https://ahsgardening.org/event/ahs-live-ecological-restoration-and-design/
LOCATION:American Horticultural Society – AHS Live
CATEGORIES:Lecture/Talk,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260227T140000
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SUMMARY:AHS LIVE: Gardens Illustrated: The New Beautiful
DESCRIPTION:Gardens Illustrated is today’s most popular gardening periodical\, thanks to its lavishly photographed features on contemporary\, forward-thinking gardens that focus on irresistible plants and clever designs. In The New Beautiful\, the editors at Gardens Illustrated highlight over fifty of their favorite gardens in a mix of scales and in a variety of climates t appeal to garden enthusiasts from the United States\, United Kingdom\, and around the world. Join this talk to explore a range of garden scales\, from small city spaces aiming to bring biodiversity deep into the built environment\, to country estates photographed with a new lens on ecology and sustainability that were created by today’s top garden designers. \nStephanie Mahon is Editor of Gardens Illustrated. She is a multi-award-winning garden editor\, writer\, and author. \nVirtual \n$15 AHS members/$20 non-members\nAll virtual programs are in ET\nRegister Here
URL:https://ahsgardening.org/event/ahs-live-gardens-illustrated-the-new-beautiful/
LOCATION:American Horticultural Society – AHS Live
CATEGORIES:Lecture/Talk,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260225T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260225T120000
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SUMMARY:AHS LIVE: Behind-The-Scenes Tour: Winter Gardens in Winter Garden
DESCRIPTION:Winter Garden\, Florida is a “charming little city with a juicy past”! Our Winter Garden gardens tour will begin at the Path of Life\, a small\, lush public garden created to enhance the beauty of Chapin Station Park while protecting the natural environment. Katy Moss Warner\, president emerita of the American Horticultural Society and president of the Bloom & Grow Garden Society\, will walk you through this peaceful place and share about the evolution of this special space on the West Orange Trail. The tour will continue to a fascinating private garden on Lake Apopka. Created by former nursery owners\, this beautiful garden is replete with palms\, epiphytes\, a collection of Tillandsia\, and lots of pollinator plants. Next\, the group will visit City Hall to learn about the Winter Garden Heritage Tree Project and view plans for the new 24-acre Health and Wellness Park under construction. The tour will end at the unique Live Trends retail plant shop near City Hall. You will want to extend your stay in Winter Garden to enjoy the shops and restaurants along Plant Street! \nKaty Moss Warner is president emerita of the American Horticultural Society and president of the Bloom & Grow Garden Society. She is also a board advisor for America in Bloom\, an organization that promotes nationwide beautification with an emphasis on volunteer community involvement. Warner trained in landscape architecture at the University of Arizona and was a Longwood Fellow in public garden administration at the University of Delaware/Longwood Gardens. For 24 years\, Warner worked as a professional horticulturist at Walt Disney World in Florida managing the landscapes of theme parks\, resort properties and roads on the 30\,000-acre property\, retiring as director of horticulture and environmental initiatives. She was awarded the Loeb Fellowship of the Harvard Graduate School of Design in Cambridge\, MA in 2000. From 2002-2005\, she served as President of the American Horticultural Society. \n$50 AHS members/$60 non-members\nAll tours are listed in location’s timezone\nRegister Here
URL:https://ahsgardening.org/event/ahs-live-behind-the-scenes-tour-winter-gardens-in-winter-garden/
LOCATION:American Horticultural Society – AHS Live
CATEGORIES:Tour
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260219T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260219T200000
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SUMMARY:AHS LIVE: Soils and Plant Nutrition
DESCRIPTION:A beautiful and sustainable garden starts with understanding your garden conditions\, enabling you to select plants that will thrive. One crucial part of that knowledge is your garden soil. We will simplify the complex topic of garden soil into five key areas to help you understand what you need to know. This program will address soil and water\, soil texture and structure\, soil chemistry\, nutrient delivery\, and the soil ecosystem. \nGretchen Renshaw is a horticulturist and teacher. She is a founder and volunteer director at the Manhattan Beach Botanical Garden in California. This demonstration garden features California native plants and sustainable gardening practices. She is a former horticulture instructor at UCLA Extension\, where she taught for over 25 years. One of her courses was a four-unit class on Soils and Plant Nutrition\, for which she wrote and published Underground: A Gardener’s Guide to Soil and Plant Nutrition. Renshaw also worked as a science teacher at an elementary school\, engaging students in hands-on science activities from kindergarten to fifth grade. She has a bachelor’s degree in Horticulture from Cal Poly\, San Luis Obispo. \nVirtual\n$15 AHS members/$20 non-members\nAll virtual programs are in ET\nRegister Here
URL:https://ahsgardening.org/event/ahs-live-soils-and-plant-nutrition/
LOCATION:American Horticultural Society – AHS Live
CATEGORIES:Lecture/Talk,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260212T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260212T200000
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SUMMARY:AHS LIVE: Bad Naturalist
DESCRIPTION:When Paula Whyman first climbed a peak in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains in search of a home in the country\, she had no idea how quickly her tidy backyard ecology project would become a massive endeavor. She soon discovered just how much she had to learn about hands-on conservation work. Bad Naturalist is a memoir about Paula Whyman’s attempts to restore native meadows on a 200-acre mountaintop–about the obstacles she encountered\, the mistakes she made\, the failures and the all-important successes\, and the discoveries she made along the way. Douglas Tallamy calls Bad Naturalist “self-deprecating\, humorous\, and thoroughly engaging.” Washington Gardener calls it “glorious.” Whyman will share the story of her efforts to restore the land. \nBad Naturalist is Paula Whyman’s first book of nonfiction. Her earlier book\, You May See a Stranger\, is an award-winning linked short story collection. Her writing has appeared in The Washington Post and The American Scholar\, and in journals including McSweeney’s Quarterly\, Virginia Quarterly Review\, Ploughshares\, and The Hudson Review. She was awarded residencies by MacDowell\, Yaddo\, VCCA\, The Studios of Key West\, and Oak Spring Garden Foundation. Her work on this book was supported in part by the Maryland State Arts Council. She spends her time on a mountain in Virginia with her husband and a mercurial standard poodle. \nVirtual (*Please note\, this program will not be recorded)\n$15 AHS members/$20 non-members\nAll virtual programs are in ET\nRegister Here
URL:https://ahsgardening.org/event/ahs-live-bad-naturalist/
LOCATION:American Horticultural Society – AHS Live
CATEGORIES:Lecture/Talk,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260211T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260211T200000
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SUMMARY:AHS LIVE: Indigenous Landscapes of Abundance
DESCRIPTION:This program will explore the historic land management practices of Indigenous women of the northern Great Plains\, with a focus on the Amskapi Piikani (or Blackfeet) women. Dr. LaPier will address the ways Indigenous women promoted the growth of prairie plants\, including domesticated food-plants\, cultivated food-plants and “wild” food-plants within the northern Great Plains. You will also learn about some of the ancient “lost crops\,” those food-plants that were cultivated in the distant past and are no longer in use. This program strives to engender conversation around Indigenous women’s role in creating sustainable landscapes of abundance. \nDr. Rosalyn LaPier is an award-winning Indigenous writer\, environmental historian\, and traditionally trained ethnobotanist who currently serves as a professor at University of Illinois and a research associate at the Smithsonian. They research and write about Indigenous landscape management practices\, traditional ecological knowledge (TEK)\, and Native American relationships with the natural world. They are the author of two books\, including Invisible Reality: Storytellers\, Storytakers and the Supernatural World of the Blackfeet. They have also produced two Blackfeet language lexicons and written dozens of articles and commentaries. Dr. LaPier is an enrolled member of the Blackfeet Tribe of Montana and Métis. \nVirtual\n$15 AHS members/$20 non-members\nAll virtual programs are in ET\nRegister Here
URL:https://ahsgardening.org/event/ahs-live-indigenous-landscapes-of-abundance/
LOCATION:American Horticultural Society – AHS Live
CATEGORIES:Lecture/Talk,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260207T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260207T120000
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SUMMARY:AHS LIVE: Behind-The-Scenes Tour: Manhattan Beach Gardens
DESCRIPTION:The tour will begin at the Manhattan Beach Botanical Garden\, a demonstration garden and certified nature habitat located in Polliwog Park. Garden director Gretchen Renshaw will share the season’s most stunning collections\, emphasizing the garden’s work on earth-friendly gardening techniques such as water conservation for the home landscape\, installation and care for California native plants\, and creating wildlife habitat. The tour will continue to private Manhattan Beach gardens to delight in designs highlighting native plants\, habitats for pollinators and birds\, and canopies of acacias that create the feeling of a secluded woodland. \nGretchen Renshaw is a horticulturist and teacher. She is a founder and volunteer director at the Manhattan Beach Botanical Garden in California. This demonstration garden features California native plants and sustainable gardening practices. She is a former horticulture instructor at UCLA Extension\, where she taught for over 25 years. One of her courses was a four-unit class on Soils and Plant Nutrition. Difficulty finding a suitable textbook for the course\, lead her and her writing partner to write and publish: “Underground: A Gardener’s Guide to Soil and Plant Nutrition.” Prior to retirement\, Gretchen worked as a science teacher at an elementary school\, engaging students in hands-on science activities from kindergarten to fifth grade. She has a bachelor’s degree in Horticulture from Cal Poly\, San Luis Obispo. \n$40 AHS members/$50 non-members\nAll tours are listed in location’s timezone\nRegister Here
URL:https://ahsgardening.org/event/ahs-live-behind-the-scenes-tour-manhattan-beach-gardens/
LOCATION:American Horticultural Society – AHS Live
CATEGORIES:Tour
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260206T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260206T150000
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SUMMARY:AHS LIVE: Designing with Fragrant Flowers and Aromatic Foliage
DESCRIPTION:Ralph Waldo Emerson memorably said\, “The earth laughs in flowers\,” which captures the joy people find in cottage gardens and cheerful urban flower plantings. Unlike color\, fragrance is ephemeral\, invisible\, and hard to describe\, but just as powerful! It summons memories\, provides comfort\, and often takes gardeners and garden visitors to exotic parts of the world. In this session\, Christopher Sheridan will explore the language of fragrance\, share design strategies for scented plants\, review a classic classification system\, and journey through the scented bloom cycle. Get in the spirit and bring a new level of creativity and enjoyment to gardening\, flower arranging\, and garden touring. \nChristopher Barrett Sheridan\, The Flower Sommelier\, is a horticulturalist\, floral design instructor\, and aspiring historian\, specializing in scented plants\, heirloom flowers\, romantic garden design\, and Victorian floral traditions. Chris regularly offers immersive design workshops at Longwood Gardens and lectures at national events\, including the Philadelphia Flower Show and the International Master Gardener Conference. A Harrison Fellow of the Historic Landscape Institute\, he is developing Founding Era Garden programming to celebrate America’s 250th anniversary. \nVirtual\n$15 AHS members/$20 non-members\nAll virtual programs are in ET\nRegister Here
URL:https://ahsgardening.org/event/ahs-live-designing-with-fragrant-flowers-and-aromatic-foliage/
LOCATION:American Horticultural Society – AHS Live
CATEGORIES:Lecture/Talk,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260129T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260129T200000
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SUMMARY:AHS LIVE: Mexican History of Botany
DESCRIPTION:In this talk\, Dr. Lopez will focus on the history of botany in Mexico (including the southwestern United States that were previously part of Mexico)\, drawing from his new book\, Rooted in Place: Botany\, Indigeneity\, and Art in the Construction of Mexican Nature\, 1570-1914. Rooted in Place traces historical transformations in the relationship between nature and imagined communities across three interlinked moments in the Renaissance\, the Enlightenment\, and the late nineteenth century in Mexico. It is the first major study of the relationship between understandings of nature and the creation of structures of rule within Mexico. The book intentionally weaves between environmental history\, history of science\, visual culture\, and political history. \nRick A. López is Anson D. Morse 1871 Professor of Latin American History and Environmental Studies at Amherst College. \nVirtual\n$15 AHS members/$20 non-members\nAll virtual programs are in ET\nRegister Here
URL:https://ahsgardening.org/event/ahs-live-mexican-history-of-botany/
LOCATION:American Horticultural Society – AHS Live
CATEGORIES:Lecture/Talk,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260122T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260122T200000
DTSTAMP:20260422T094532
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SUMMARY:AHS LIVE: Plants for the Winter Garden
DESCRIPTION:The winter garden is a truly low maintenance affair and a time to enjoy – no weeding\, no watering and no deadheading! The winter landscape may be quiescent\, but the garden need not be bleak. Plants with brightly colored berries\, twigs\, stems\, foliage and even winter-blooming flowers shrug off the snow and cold. Landscape horticulturist Warren Leach\, author of Plants for the Winter Garden\, will showcase gardens he has designed that celebrate the winter season as well as planting design ideas for your own garden. \nWarren Leach is a passionate plant collector\, nurseryman\, horticulturist\, and landscape designer with a depth of knowledge of all garden plants including perennials\, tropical\, temperate and woody plants. For more than 35 years\, Leach has been creating landscapes throughout New England as well as making captivating and education display gardens at Tranquil Lake Nursery in Rehoboth\, MA. Leach is an award-winning landscape designer and has taught horticulture and landscape design at numerous horticultural institutions. \nVirtual\n$15 AHS members/$20 non-members\nAll virtual programs are in ET\nRegister Here
URL:https://ahsgardening.org/event/ahs-live-plants-for-the-winter-garden-2/
LOCATION:American Horticultural Society – AHS Live
CATEGORIES:Lecture/Talk,Virtual
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