[Bilimsel Haber] CFP: History of Gardening

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

From: Marina Moskowitz <M.Moskowitz at modhist.arts.gla.ac.uk>

[with apologies for cross posting]

GARDENING: Histories of Horticultural Practice
Conference in Glasgow, Scotland
15-17 March 2007
Paper proposal deadline: 1 October 2006

Paper proposals are invited for a conference on the history of gardening.

Building on an excellent historiography of gardens and landscape design,
this conference will focus on the means and practices that create
gardens, rather than formal or cultural analyses of the spaces
themselves. We will consider the term 'garden' broadly, to mean discrete
landscapes intentionally planted for sustenance, commerce, ornament,
creation of leisure space, or advancement of horticultural knowledge.
The organisers welcome proposals from a variety of disciplines, on any
historical period or geographic region, as long as the research to be
presented focuses on acts of gardening.

Topics might include, but are certainly not limited to, the histories of:
*tools for gardening
*horticultural labour/gardening as a profession
*floriculture
*market gardening
*kitchen gardening
*garden clubs and societies
*exchange of plant material
*exchange of botanical information or horticultural advice
*horticultural trades (nurseries, seed companies, etc)
*plant breeding
*representations of gardening
*victory gardens
*children's or school gardens

Please address queries to Marina Moskowitz: mam at arts.gla.ac.uk

Please send 250-word proposal and 1-pg c.v. to: mam at arts.gla.ac.uk by
1 October 2006. Acceptances should be available by mid-October.

The GARDENING conference is part of the research project 'Seed Money:
The Economies of Horticulture in Nineteenth-Century America' funded
through the Programme on Cultures of Consumption, by the UK Economic and
Social Research Council and Arts and Humanities Research Council.

[Please note: Conference organisers will apply for additional funding to
subsidise travel of distant participants, but this funding is in no way
assured, and the outcome of these grants will not be known until shortly
before the conference. Therefore, participants should not rely on travel
funds being available from the conference itself.]

Marina Moskowitz
Senior Lecturer in History and American Studies
University of Glasgow
<mam at arts.gla.ac.uk>