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Plotting the Garden: Politics and Narrative in the Literature and Culture of Gardens
March 21, 2019 - March 22, 2019
Free“Plotting the Garden” is a two-day conference at the University of Florida that explores the intersection of gardens as physical plots of land cultivated for a purpose; as narrative plots that tell a story; and as political plots that convey identity, power, and even intrigue. We seek to mobilize what George McKay calls “horticultural politics” (Radical Gardening: Politics, Idealism and Rebellion in the Garden, London 2011, p. 6). With their characteristic earthly practice and pleasure, gardens are also sites of ideological struggle; gardens are linked, for better or worse, to war, climate change, nationality, gender, and the intersections of identity.
The event will be held between March 21-22, 2019 and be held in three locations: Ustler Hall Atrium; Harn Museum of Art; and Wilmot Gardens.
Organized by: Victoria Pagán, Professor of Classics and Judith W. Page, Professor of English, Emeritus
Co-sponsored by: The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation; The UF Harn Eminent Scholar Chair in Art History; UF Office of Research; UF College of Liberal Arts and Sciences; UF Department of Classics (Rothman Endowment); UF Department of English; UF Center for Gender, Sexualities, and Women’s Studies Research.
Email to contact: vepagan@ufl.edu
More information available HERE.