The Dominion of Flowers: Botanical Art & Global Plant Relations
By Mark Laird. Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, 2024.
Between 1760 and 1840, exotic plants were imported from across Britain’s empire and were lavishly depicted in periodicals and scientific treatises. Mark Laird’s provocative new book – part art history, part polemic – weaves fine art, botanical illustration, gender studies and previously unpublished archival material into a political and ethical account of Britain’s heritage, showing how plants were not only integral to English gardens of the Georgian and Victorian eras but also ...
CFA International Conference “Queer Ecology and the Temporal Imagination”
International Conference
Queer Ecology and the Temporal Imagination
26 – 27 February 2026 University of Tübingen Center for Gender and Diversity Research (ZGD)
Organised by Gero Bauer and Davina Höll
Confirmed Keynote Speaker: Prof. Sylvan Goldberg (Colorado College)
Call for Abstracts
In recent political discourse, there has been a striking correlation between questions relating to the environment, the climate crisis, and environmental justice on the one hand and gender and sexuality on the other. At the same time, the climate crisis (and its denial) has been increasingly framed in terms of ...