On Thursday 7th May, the Garden Museum will host a symposium examining the networks of knowledge that shaped early modern botanical science.
This symposium brings together academics, curators, and museum professionals to examine the networks of knowledge, materials and people that shaped early modern botanical science. Through presentations, panel discussions and Q&A.
The Garden Museum will host the symposium in person and online. This event accompanies the exhibition ‘Seeds of Exchange: Canton and London in the 1700s’.
Speakers include:
Professor Winnie Wong Professor of Rhetoric at University of California, Berkeley
Emile de Bruijn Assistant National Curator Decorative Arts, National Trust
Jordan Goodman Honorary Research Associate in the Department of Science and Technology Studies at University College London
Peter Crane President of the Oak Spring Garden Foundation
Chin Ru Foo DEI Consultant and Interpretation Consultant for Seeds of Exchange exhibition
Emma House Curator at the Garden Museum
Dr Richard Coulton Reader in Eighteenth-Century Studies and Digital Humanities, Queen Mary, University of London
Dr John McAleer Associate Professor of History at the University of Southampton
Professor Stephen Davies Honorary Institute Fellow, The University of Hong Kong’s Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences
Yuqing Liu Lecturer in the Department of Asian Studies at the University of Edinburgh
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Garden Museum – Symposium: Seeds of Exchange: Canton and London in the 1700s
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On Thursday 7th May, the Garden Museum will host a symposium examining the networks of knowledge that shaped early modern botanical science.
This symposium brings together academics, curators, and museum professionals to examine the networks of knowledge, materials and people that shaped early modern botanical science. Through presentations, panel discussions and Q&A.
The Garden Museum will host the symposium in person and online. This event accompanies the exhibition ‘Seeds of Exchange: Canton and London in the 1700s’.
Speakers include:
Professor Winnie Wong Professor of Rhetoric at University of California, Berkeley
Emile de Bruijn Assistant National Curator Decorative Arts, National Trust
Jordan Goodman Honorary Research Associate in the Department of Science and Technology Studies at University College London
Peter Crane President of the Oak Spring Garden Foundation
Chin Ru Foo DEI Consultant and Interpretation Consultant for Seeds of Exchange exhibition
Emma House Curator at the Garden Museum
Dr Richard Coulton Reader in Eighteenth-Century Studies and Digital Humanities, Queen Mary, University of London
Dr John McAleer Associate Professor of History at the University of Southampton
Professor Stephen Davies Honorary Institute Fellow, The University of Hong Kong’s Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences
Yuqing Liu Lecturer in the Department of Asian Studies at the University of Edinburgh