Fields of Flowers, Forests of Fruit: Rediscovering the Horticulture of Early Modern India
Online lecture organized by BIC – Bangalore International Center (India). Speaker: Nicolas Roth Beginning in the sixteenth century, a new garden typology appeared across much of northern and central India. […]
The Early Modern Global Caribbean
The Caribbean played a central role in the global transformations that began in the fifteenth century. This virtual conference at the Huntington (San Marino, CA) explores the regional, Atlantic, and […]
Natural Histories in a Visual Iconographic Database
For the next Material and Visual Culture Seminar Series (Material Culture in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries Research Cluster, University of Edinburgh), Tassanee Alleau (Université François Rabelais, Tours) will give […]
Still Lives: Representing and Looking at Nature Then and Now
The next seminar at Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for the History of Art will host Jaya Remond on representations of nature, particularly those of plants, focusing on the […]
From the Macro to the Micro: Mapping New Worlds
Virtual talk organized by the Convergence Initiative, in partnership with Concordia University (Montreal, Quebec). Speaker: Pamela Mackenzie Nehemiah Grew was one of the earliest people to conduct a detailed exploration […]
Poppies, Opiates, and Pain in Early Modern Scotland, c.1664–1785
What’s Your Poison? Online Seminar Series, organized by the Intoxicating Spaces project (Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, University of Sheffield, Stockholm University, and Utrecht University) explores the history of specific […]
Visualizing Diversity in Natural History, 16th–17th Centuries
The next online seminar at Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for the History of Art will host Staffan Müller-Wille and Niklaas Goersch on “Division and Affinity: Visualizing Diversity in […]
Commodifying Botany in Early Modern England
For next Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Foundation Lecture (Harry Ransom Center), Sarah Neville (Ohio State University) will give a talk on “Herbals ‘Grete’ and Small: Commodifying Botany in Early Modern […]
Resurrections of Plants and Palingenesis in Early Modern England
For next Plants in Early Modern Knowledge seminar (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice), Antonio Clericuzio (University Roma Tre) will give a talk on “Experiments with the Resurrections of Plants: Palingenesis […]
Visual Knowledge of Exotic Nature in 16th–C. Europe
For next Plants in Early Modern Knowledge seminar (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice), Florike Egmond (Leiden University) will give a talk on “Making and Authenticating Visual Knowledge of Exotic Nature […]