presents
EARLY-MODERN GARDENS IN CONTEXT
A One-Day Conference at the Robert Emmet Theatre
Arts Building, Trinity College Dublin
Saturday 21st November 2009
9.00 a.m. - 6.00 p.m.
All Welcome
Speakers: Marie Addyman (The Open University), Helen Conrad-O’Briain (TCD), Jill Francis (Birmingham), Louise Harrington (independent scholar), Sue Hewer (Dundee), Brian Kingston (independent scholar), Eavan O’Brian (TCD), Laurent Paya (Montpellier), Dave Pollock (independent scholar), Sinéad Quirke (UCD), John Slater (University of Colorado, Boulder), Anne Stobart (Middlesex), Anatole Tchikine (TCD).
CONFERENCE PROGRAMME:
9.00-9.15 REGISTRATION/WELCOME
9.15-11.15 SESSION 1: Gardens, Literature, Gender
CHAIR: Sarah Alyn Stacey (Trinity College Dublin)
Helen Conrad O’Briain (Trinity College Dublin): 'Grammar and Gardens: A Pirate’s Garden in the Commentary Tradition: Georgics IV, lines 125-148'.
Eavan O’Brian (Trinity College Dublin): 'Up the Garden Path: Subversive Stories of Desire by María de Zayas and Leonor de Meneses'.
Marie Addyman (The Open University): 'Fruits of Love: Woman as Fruit in Shakespeare and Webster'.
John Slater (University of Colorado, Boulder): 'Embattled Flowers: Gardens and Warfare in Early-Modern Spain'.
11.15-11.30 REFRESHMENTS
11.30-1.00 SESSION 2: Historic Gardens of Britain and Ireland
CHAIR: Christine Casey (Trinity College Dublin)
Sue Hewer (University of Dundee): 'Searching for the Baroque in Scotland’s Gardens and Designed Landscapes'.
Jill Francis (University of Birmingham): 'Defining Status and Identity in the Early-Modern Garden: Sir Thomas Temple and his "Little Gardine at Dassett Paled"'.
Dave Pollock (independent scholar): 'Excavated Garden Remains at a Medieval Castle in County Cork'.
1.00-2.00 LUNCH
Image: Bagnaia, Villa Lante, Parterre
2.00-3.30 SESSION 3: Herb, Vegetable, and Pleasure Gardens
CHAIR: Helen Conrad O’Briain (Trinity College Dublin)
Laurent Paya (Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture, Montpellier): 'Le Thresor des Parterres de l’Univers (1629): un livre de modèles pour recueillir toute l’ornementation des parterres des jardins de la Renaissance'.
Anne Stobart (Middlesex University): ‘"What Hearbs Best to be Gathered in March and Aprill": Sourcing Medicinal Plants in Early-Modern Household Healthcare in South West England'
Anatole Tchikine (Trinity College Dublin): 'Horticultural Differences: the Florentine Garden of Don Luis de Toledo and the Nuns of San Domenico del Maglio'.
3.30-4.00 REFRESHMENTS
4.00-5.30 SESSION 4: Studying Historic Gardens
CHAIR: Anatole Tchikine (Trinity College, Dublin)
Sinéad Quirke (University College Dublin): 'The King’s Garden, Rosenborg Castle, Copenhagen, Denmark: an Experimental Phenomenological Approach'.
Louise Harrington (independent scholar): 'The Use of Phenomenology in Demonstrating a Choreography of Movement in the Designed Landscape (with 17th- and 18th-century examples)'.
Brian Kingston (independent scholar): 'Sources for the Study of Irish Gardens, circa 1580–1690'.
5.30-6.00 CONCLUSION/DISCUSSION
This is the inaugural conference organised by the ‘Early-Modern Gardens in Context’ research network, which is supported by the Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at TCD. This international network has been established to bring together researchers interested in various aspects of horticulture and garden design in Ireland, Britain and Europe from the fourteenth to the seventeenth century. Its aim is to promote the knowledge and appreciation of historic gardens by creating an interdisciplinary focus for their study.
All enquiries concerning the network should be directed to Anatole Tchikine, the network coordinator, at tchikia@tcd.ie.
For further information about the Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, please contact Sarah Alyn Stacey at salynsta@tcd.ie; telephone (00 353 1) 896 2686.
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