Schlanger, a staff writer for The Atlantic and author of the New York Times bestselling book The Light Eaters, will guide attendees through some of the most cutting-edge discoveries in plant behavior and intelligence. Her talk, titled Memory, Manipulation, Mimicry, and Kinship, will explore remarkable new findings in plant science, research that challenges our basic ideas about consciousness, agency, and life itself.

Through compelling storytelling and scientific insight, Schlanger will reveal how plants communicate, remember, and respond to their environment in ways that blur the line between flora and fauna. Her work, which has appeared in The New York Times, NPR, and The New York Review of Books, has earned national recognition for its depth and clarity, bringing the wonders of the natural world to life for audiences of all kinds.