Both as physical locations and as fantasies of selfhood, gardens always speak of whereand howwe see ourselves in the world. Focusing on the imagination and creation of gardens in the disparate geographies of 18th-century Europe, the Caribbean, and North America, this conference explores transatlantic ideas of nation, location, and self, and asks how the experience of gardens might be shared across nations, oceans, and cultures. Rothenberg Hall
Registration for this 2-day conference is $25, with an optional buffet lunch each day for $20.
Conference registration is $10 for current Huntington docents, and free for current Long-Term Fellows and students with a current Student I.D. Please bring your current I.D. to event day check-in. Students, please note school affiliation after your name when registering.
Conference Schedule
FRIDAY, DEC. 7
8:30 a.m. - Registration & Coffee
9:30 a.m. - Welcome: Steve Hindle (The Huntington)
Opening Remarks: Stephen Bending (University of Southampton)
Session 1: Making Places in the Atlantic World Moderator: Stephen Bending
John Dixon Hunt (University of Pennsylvania) Raising the Veils of Isis, Then What?
Tom Williamson (University of East Anglia) Production, power and the natural: Explaining the Differences Between English and American Gardens in the Eighteenth Century
12 p.m. - Lunch
1 p.m. - Curatorial Tours of the Botanical Collections
3 p.m. - Session 2: New World Landscapes and Transatlantic Imaginings
Moderator: Jennifer Milam (University of Melbourne)
Therese OMalley (NGA CASVA, Washington, D.C.) The Garden in the Wilderness
Joseph Manca (Rice University) The Human Presence in George Washingtons Gardens at Mount Vernon
SATURDAY, DEC. 8
9 a.m. - Registration & Coffee
9:30 a.m. - Session 3: Planting the Transatlantic Garden Moderator: Stephen Bending
Finola OKane Crimmins (University College Dublin) Improving the Atlantic World: Transatlantic Tourists and their Landscape Designs, Comparisons and Route
Elizabeth Hyde (Kean University) A reciprocal exchange of the productions of nature: Plants and Place in France and America
11 a.m. - Session 4: Transatlantic Designs
Moderator: Jennifer Milam
Emily Cooperman (ARCH Preservation Consulting) The last polish of a refined nation: Philadelphia and Garden Art in the Atlantic World
Jonathan Finch (University of York) The Estate Landscape: A Transatlantic Dialogue
1 p.m. - Lunch
2 p.m. - Session 5: Experiencing the Transatlantic Landscape Moderator: Stephen Bending
Jill Casid (University of Wisconsin-Madison) Landscape Vertigo
Rachel Crawford (University of San Francisco) Fragmented Gardens
4 p.m. - Roundtable
4:30 p.m. - Closing Remarks: Jennifer Milam
Funding provided by The Huntington's William French Smith Endowment and The USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute
Location
Rothenberg Hall, The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens (View)
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
United States
