2022–2023
2022 Plant Humanities Conference
September 15–17, 2022
2021–2022
Amy Lamb’s Photography: The Interplay of Science and Art
December 17, 2021, 3–4 p.m. | Amy Lamb
Contemporary Botanical Images: Science, History, Environment
November 12, 2021, 11 a.m.–12 p.m. | Temitayo Ogunbiyi, Nirupa Rao, and Alice Tangerini
Heliconias, Evolution, and Art: A Botanist’s Perspective
October 22, 2021, 3–4 p.m. | W. John Kress
October 8, 2021, 4–5 p.m. | Yota Batsaki and Anatole Tchikine
2020–2021
“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.
March 19, 2021 | Joint colloquium hosted by the Humanities Institute, New York Botanical Garden, and Dumbarton Oaks
2019–2020
“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 | 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.”