Warwick Humanities Research Centre (Web)
Time: 23.11.2019
Venue: University Library, Warwick, UK
Registration by: 14.11.2019
Programme

• 10.00: Registration and Coffee
• 10.30: Sophie Greenway, Warwick: Introduction; Chair: Hilary Marland
• 10.45: Lisa Taylor, Leeds: Keynote Address: Affective Gardens, Neoliberal Times: reassessing the garden in contemporary lifestyle media

11.45: Panel 1: Families, plants and gardens; Chair: Louise Morgan

• Thomas McGrath, Manchester: “I believe the garden will be a great delight”: The Suburban Garden in Elizabeth Gaskell’s Manchester
• Anna Lawrence, Cambridge: Treat your child as you treat your plant: Phytomorphism in the Victorian Slum
• Elizabeth Baigent, Oxford: “The flowers interested the children more than the cakes”: Octavia Hill and the domestication of nature in 19th-century England

13.15:  Lunch
14.00: Panel 2: The garden in its place; Chair: Marina Chang

• Teresa Kopecka, Prague: The War Gardens: Ready to feed and kill
• Lauriane Suyin Chalmin-Pui, Sheffield: “I’m known as Mr Front Garden now” – A framework to understand the relationship between Britain in Bloom gardeners and their front gardens
• Dan Keech, Gloucestershire and Bamberg: Urban horticulture and public/private spaces
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