Tuesday 8 July
GR06/07, Faculty of English, West Road
9.30–10.00: Registration
10.00–10.15: Conference introduction
10.15–11.15: Keynote: Catherine Powell-Warren
11.15–12.45: Panel 1: Embodied Knowledge
12.45–13.45: Lunch break
13.45–15.15: Panel 2: Books and Knowledge
15.15–15.30: Coffee break
15.30–16.30: Keynote: Leonie Hannan
16.30–17.00: Move to Cambridge University Botanic Gardens
17.00–18.00: Tour of Botanic Gardens with Nabil Ali
Wednesday 9 July
9.30–11.00: Natural Dyes workshop with Nabil Ali
Meet at the Porters' Lodge, Jesus College, Jesus Lane. Registration required.
10.00–11.00: Botanical Illustrations study session
Meet at the Courtyard Entrance, Fitzwilliam Museum. Registration required.
GR06/07, Faculty of English, West Road
11.00–11.30: Coffee break
11.30–13.00: Panel 3: Medicinal Knowledge
13.00–14.00: Lunch break
14.00–15.30: Panel 4: Knowledge and Empire
15.30–16.00: Coffee break
16.00–17.00: Roundtable discussion with keynote speakers and organisers. Closing remarks.
Keynote speakers
Dr Catherine Powell-Warren, KU Leuven: 'Plants as vectors in female artistic community building'
Dr Leonie Hannan, Queen’s University Belfast: 'Plants as process: embodied knowledge and the ‘Liberty of Air’
Panel 1: Embodied Knowledge
Océane Fontaine Cioffi, Université de Tours: 'Naming, selecting, and using plants: Botanical knowledge in 16th century perfumery'
Alasdair McNeill, Birkbeck, University of London: 'Cheesemakers and plant knowledge in early modern England'
Maja-Lisa Müller, Universität Bielefeld: 'Mushrooms and mimesis: 18th century wax models as deictic and didactic boundary objects'
Panel 2: Books and Knowledge
Grace Murray, Birkbeck, University of London: 'Marginalia and memory books: Writing Garden Labour in Eighteenth-Century London'
Janet Stiles Tyson, Independent scholar: 'A Curious Herbal in the commercial book market'
Sanne Steen, Erasmus University, Rotterdam: 'Gardening as Knowledge Practice: Historical handbooks for kitchen gardens'
Panel 3: Medicinal Knowledge
Nikolas C. Brusletto, Independent scholar: 'Botanical Knowledge in the Norwegian Black Books: Folk Medicine, Embodied Experience, and Social Networks'
Yizhou Wang, Hong Kong Baptist University: 'Botanical Illustrations of Dandelions, Crisis, and Women in Early Modern China'
Lauren Owens, Florida State University: '“She has been busy seeking perfection”: Recettes for the Health and Wellness in Eighteenth-century France.'
Panel 4: Empire and Knowledge
Joseph Bienko, Pennsylvania State University: 'Baconian Buccaneering: William Dampier’s Excursion to Panama'
Margaux Shraiman, Utrecht University: 'A Surinamese Butterfly Among Cape Flowers: Maria Sibylla Merian’s Copies of botanical illustrations from the Cabinet of Johanna Breda and Levinus Vincent'
Christina Welch, University of Winchester: 'People and Plants in the Colonial Caribbean: Indigenous and Enslaved African people's medicinal and horticultural knowledge'
For speakers' abstracts and biographies, please follow the link below: