{"id":15561,"date":"2026-07-24T11:04:35","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T15:04:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/americanstudies\/?p=15561"},"modified":"2026-07-24T11:04:35","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T15:04:35","slug":"professor-adriana-craciun-gives-a-tedx-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/americanstudies\/2026\/07\/24\/professor-adriana-craciun-gives-a-tedx-talk\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Adriana Craciun gives a TEDx Talk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In June, Professor Adriana Craciun gave a TEDx Talk at TEDx Boston about the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, a space in the Arctic Mountain near the South Pole that &#8220;holds the genetic backup&#8221; of agricultural history. The vault is the subject of Professor Craciun&#8217;s forthcoming book <em>Arctic Enlightenment: The Time of Plants in the Global Seed Vault.\u00a0<\/em>View the talk below or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jLHx4xNO2Ms\">at this link<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jLHx4xNO2Ms?si=ikko4IVe0qwY2Chh\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In June, Professor Adriana Craciun gave a TEDx Talk at TEDx Boston about the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, a space in the Arctic Mountain near the South Pole that &#8220;holds the genetic backup&#8221; of agricultural history. The vault is the subject of Professor Craciun&#8217;s forthcoming book Arctic Enlightenment: The Time of Plants in the Global [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22232,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/americanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15561"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/americanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/americanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/americanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22232"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/americanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15561"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/americanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15568,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/americanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15561\/revisions\/15568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/americanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/americanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/americanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}