Symposium – BHL Day 2024 – Year of the Cicada: Buzzing with 17 Years of Biodiversity Achievements

In conjunction with the 2024 Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) Annual Meeting, the Field Museum will host a public symposium on May 16, 2024. The symposium will be open to all attendees of the BHL Annual Meeting as well as others from the biodiversity community.

In May 2024, the dual emergence of Broods XIII and XIX of the periodical cicadas (Magicicada) will coincide with the 17th anniversary of the launch of the BHL portal. To commemorate this unique convergence, BHL will recognize and celebrate notable achievements in both the biodiversity community and the BHL community in the past 17 years.

Returning to its roots in Chicago, the BHL community is thrilled to gather at the Field Museum, a founding partner of BHL since 2006. The Chicago Botanic Garden, co-host for the Annual Meeting, joined BHL in 2014. Chicago has been pivotal in BHL’s journey, hosting early technical planning sessions in 2004 and the 2011 global biodiversity community meeting titled Life and Literature at The Field Museum.

Register today!

In-person attendance

(Doors open 1:30 PM CT)

Field Museum

Montgomery Ward Lecture Hall

1400 S. DuSable Lake Shore Dr.

Chicago

Virtual attendance

The event will also be livestreamed via Zoom Webinar for virtual attendance.

The hybrid event is free and open to the public. Advanced registration is required for in-person and virtual attendance.