Lectures in US, Canada, Norway, Switzerland, France, India, Nepal

Delivering digital presentations in US, Canada, India, Switzerland, France and Norway

Chris' first slide show delivered abroad was in California back in 1983. Since then he has undertaken 5 lecture tours in North America and one in New Zealand plus individual lectures in various parts of the world. Most of the audiences are able to understand his English accent and sense of humour. He organised and arranged the tours himself. These were a great experience, being hosted by numerous talented and enthusiastic plants people, who went out of their way to show off the surrounding gardens (public & private) and countryside - a unique insight into these parts of the world. Chris does not have the budget to stay at top hotels; being made welcome means a lot in any country.

Chris at a social event during his stay on Vancouver Island, British Columbia and (top left) at Eswyn's Rock Garden

LECTURE TOUR IN US & CANADA, 2013

Chris completed a 7-week, 18 lecture and 2 propagation seminar, lecture tour in the Pacific North-West and Alaska during May and June 2013. His engagements included bookings in: Spokane and Seattle, Washington State; Denver, Colorado; San Francisco; Portland, Oregon; Vancouver Island, British Columbia plus Juneau and Anchorage, Alaska

Audience gathering for Chris Chadwell's lecture in Palmer, Alaska © Chris Chadwell

University lecture theatre - venue for Chris' lectures in Juneau © Chris Chadwell

Views from University of Alaska campus in Juneau © Chris Chadwell

Chris making final preparations before his lecture on Vancouver Island, British Columbia (Photo: © Kirsten Juergensen)

Chris ending his lecture to by twirling a Tibetan prayer wheel (Photo: © Kirsten Juergensen)

LECTURES GIVEN BY CHRIS CHADWELL DURING PACIFIC NW/ALASKA TOUR 2013

PLANT HUNTING IN LITTLE TIBET: Flowers Fit For A Dalai Lama – Spokane (Washington State)

WILD FLOWERS AND BIRDS OF LITTLE TIBET – Port Townsend (Washington State)

PARADISE ON EARTH: The Beautiful Rock Garden Plants of Kashmir – Seattle (Washington State)

GROWING HIMALAYAN ROCK GARDEN PLANTS - North Sound (Washington State)

PLANT HUNTING IN LITTLE TIBET – Denver (Colorado)

PARADISE ON EARTH: The Beautiful Flowers of Kashmir - San Francisco (California)

PARADISE ON EARTH: The Beautiful Flowers of Kashmir – Portland (Oregon)

PARADISE ON EARTH: The Beautiful Flowers of Kashmir – Salt Spring Island (British Columbia)

PLANT HUNTING FOR ALPINES IN BORDERLANDS OF W.TIBET – Vancouver Island (British Columbia)

PARADISE ON EARTH: The Beautiful Flowers of Kashmir – Vancouver Island (British Columbia)

PARADISE ON EARTH: The Beautiful Rock Garden Plants of Kashmir – Victoria (British Columbia)

HIMALAYAN PLANT PROPAGATION SEMINAR – Vancouver Island (British Columbia)

PARADISE ON EARTH :The Beautiful Alpines of Kashmir – Vancouver (British Columbia)

PLANT HUNTING IN NEPAL – Vancouver (British Columbia)

LILIES, LAMAS and LEECHES: Plant Hunting in Nepal – Juneau (Alaska)

PARADISE ON EARTH: The Beautiful Flowers of Kashmir – Juneau (Alaska)

PARADISE ON EARTH: The Beautful Flowers of Kashmir – Kenai (Alaska)

PARADISE ON EARTH: The Beautiful Flowers of Kashmir – Homer (Alaska)

PARADISE ON EARTH: The Beautiful Flowers of Kashmir – Palmer (Alaska)

PLANT HUNTING IN WESTERN TIBET – Anchorage (Alaska)

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LEH, LADAKH, INDIA, 2011

Chris Chadwell delivering the lecture; Dr Wangchuk operating the equipment © Chris Chadwell

Prior to my visit to Ladakh, I became aware that members of the INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION for LADAKH STUDIES (IALS) would be welcome to give lectures during their stays - jointly for the HIMALAYAN CULTURAL HERITAGE FOUNDATION (HCHF). This represented an ideal opportunity for me, as I doubt, given my limited finances, ever to be in a position to attend meetings of the IALS held in Ladakh (as was the case for the conference in 2015 - which I would have liked to speak at). So I volunteered my services (on a complimentary bases of course - funds are not available to pay for foreign speakers, or even contribute to their costs) to Dr Sonam Wangchuk, recently appointed local Secretary of the IALS and HCHF representative in Leh. I had my lap-top with me and a digital projector was available. So I was able to deliver a digital presentation FLOWERS and BIRDS OF 'LITTLE TIBET' (one of the names Ladakh is known by) - this being the topic likely to be of greatest interest locally.

A diverse audience of Western tourists, volunteers working for NGOs and a group of trainee lamas (who arrived fashionably late) were most attentive and clearly enjoyed my 'lecture'. And what a place to deliver it in - Lonpo House, attached to Leh Palace. How many of you have lectured in a medieval palace? A wonderful experience. © Chris Chadwell

Leh Palace © Chris Chadwell

View across Leh (and the upper Indus Valley) from the palace © Chris Chadwell

LECTURE TOUR IN EASTERN USA, 2011

Chris Chadwell completed a successful month's lecture tour in Eastern USA in Spring 2011. He spoke in Michigan, New York and New England after being the key-note speaker at the American Primrose Society's National Conference near Boston. In addition he gave a Seminar at the University of Michigan about Walter Koelz, an American scientist who travelled in the Western Himalaya and Borderlands of Western Tibet in the 1930s, bestowing a posthumous Kohli Memorial Gold Medal on behalf of the Himalayan Plant Association.

Chris Chadwell having presented senior members with Tibetan silk scarves & Kulu hats after his lecture to American Primrose Society

Poster advertising Chris Chadwell's seminar at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor entitled 'The Himalayan Travels of Walter Koelz' - a scientist from the University who travelled extensively in the North-West Himalaya and borderlands of Western Tibet in the 1930s

Chris Chadwell "behind-the-scenes" at the New York Botanical Garden, The Bronx © Chris Chadwell

Being shown behind-the-scenes at the New York Botanic Garden © Chris Chadwell

LECTURES GIVEN BY CHRIS CHADWELL DURING EAST COAST TOUR 2011

BEAUTIFUL ALPINES OF KASHMIR; GROWING HIMALAYAN ROCK GARDEN PLANTS - Ann Arbor (Michigan)

THE HIMALAYAN TRAVELS OF WALTER KOELZ - Ann Arbor (Michigan)

PLANT HUNTING ALONG THE HIMALAYA: IN SEARCH OF PRIMULAS - Tower Hill (Massachusetts)

GROWING HIMALAYAN PRIMULAS - Tower Hill (Massachusetts)

BEAUTIFUL ALPINES OF KASHMIR; LILIES, LAMAS and LEECHES - New York

BEAUTIFUL ALPINES OF KASHMIR; GROWING HIMALAYAN ROCK GARDEN PLANTS - Berkshire (Massachusetts)

THE LAST PLACE ON EARTH: Alpine Flowers of Zangskar; GROWING HIMALAYAN ROCK GARDEN PLANTS - (New England)

TROMSO, NORWAY, 2010

Professor Arve Elbvebakk, Curator of the Tromso Arctic-Alpine Botanic Garden in Tromso, Northern Norway invited me to deliver some of my first ever digital lectures about Kashmir and Ladakh in the summer of 2010. This provided me with the opportunity to meet Ole Olsen's and present him with a KOHLI MEMORIAL GOLD MEDAL and framed certificate (see photo below).

Chris with OLE OLSEN during lectures (Photo: © Arve Elvebakk)

Chris during a tour of Tromso's garden (Photo: © Arve Elvebakk)

The garden is located just 5 minutes walk from Tromso's ferry port © Chris Chadwell

NEW DELHI, INDIA, 2009

I was the key-note speaker at the P.N.KOHLI commemorative event at the India Habitat Centre.

Attentive audience

Exhibit Chris Chadwell mounted to accompany his presentation

Chris being presented with scarf

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ZURICH, SWITZERLAND, 2000

I was invited to deliver a lecture at the Botanical Garden of the University of Zurich by a researcher into the evolutionary biology of the genus PRIMULA. The visit provided an opportunity to meet Dr Peter Edwards (by then a Professor at the Geo-Botanische Institute in Zurich), a plant ecologist who had been my tutor when I studied botany at the University of Southampton.

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COURSON, FRANCE, 1991

CHATEAU COURSON

Monsieur Patrice Fustier invited me, as a late replacement for Roy Lancaster, to deliver a lecture illustrated with slides entitled' ECOLOGIE ET PRESERVATION AU TIBET OCCIDENTAL (LADAKH ET LAHOUL) CONTEXT HISTORIQUE ET GEOGRAPHIE', during the Spring Courson Flower Show that year.

Page 1 of Chris Chadwell's illustrated lecture at Courson translated into French (I am told that the translation of some of the technical terms leaves something to be desired)

Page 2 of Chris Chadwell's illustrated lecture at Courson translated into French

Page 3 of Chris Chadwell's illustrated lecture at Courson translated into French

Page 4 of Chris Chadwell's illustrated lecture at Courson translated into French

Page 1 of List of slides shown by Chris Chadwell to illustrated his lecture at Courson, translated into French - though it was clear that the French in the audience understood his English perfectly well and humour!

Page 2 of List of slides shown by Chris Chadwell to illustrated his lecture at Courson, translated into French - though it was clear that the French in the audience understood his English perfectly well and humour!

Chris wearing a Harvard t-shirt after delivering a lunch-time 'brown-bag' seminar at Harvard Himalaya - where he met Dr Benito Tan (whom he subsequently hosted in Slough - Benito, a bryologist, described Chris' house as a small apartment!

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