2023
300 Years of Trees at Kew: An Illustrated Lecture by Tony Kirkham
May 3, 2023 | Plant Humanities Lecture with Tony Kirkham
2022
2022 Plant Humanities Conference
September 15–17, 2022
2021
Amy Lamb’s Photography: The Interplay of Science and Art
December 17, 2021 | Plant Humanities Virtual talk with Amy Lamb
Contemporary Botanical Images: Science, History, Environment
November 12, 2021 | Plant Humanities Virtual talk with Temitayo Ogunbiyi, Nirupa Rao, and Alice Tangerini
Heliconias, Evolution, and Art: A Botanist’s Perspective
October 22, 2021 | Plant Humanities Virtual talk with W. John Kress
Curating Portraits of Plants
October 8, 2021 | Plant Humanities Virtual talk with Yota Batsaki and Anatole Tchikine
“Artialize” Nature, Naturalize Art: When Plants and Other Creatures Become Living Books
April 30, 2021 | International colloquium organized by the Yale Department of French and sponsored by the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the United States.
Humanistic Uses of Herbaria
March 19, 2021 | Joint colloquium hosted by the Humanities Institute, New York Botanical Garden, and Dumbarton Oaks
2020
“Botanick Friends”: Exchanging Plants in the Eighteenth Century
March 4, 2020 | Public Talk in the Book Hill Talks Lecture Series of the Georgetown Neighborhood Library, Victoria Pickering
Margaret Mee: Portraits of Plants
January 10, 2020 | Rare Book Study Day, organized by Yota Batsaki and Anatole Tchikine
The study day, designed to inform the upcoming exhibition Margaret Mee: Portraits of Plants, brought together experts and practitioners of botany, botanical art and illustration, early modern print culture, and conservation. Sessions covered a range of topics related to the exhibition, which included “The Art and Science of Botanical Painting,” “The Reproduction and Dissemination of Botanical Knowledge,” and “Plants in Context: Ecosystems of the Amazon.”