{"id":53,"date":"2015-09-09T11:24:24","date_gmt":"2015-09-09T15:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/st197\/?page_id=53"},"modified":"2015-09-14T11:24:55","modified_gmt":"2015-09-14T15:24:55","slug":"culture-of-nature","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/humanslashnature\/events\/culture-of-nature\/","title":{"rendered":"Culture of Nature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Culture of Nature: Garden Design, East and West.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>EC November 7, Saturday at 9:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. in the Art Museum and Olin 01<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_148\" style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/humanslashnature\/files\/2015\/09\/gardens.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-148\" class=\"wp-image-148\" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/humanslashnature\/files\/2015\/09\/gardens.png\" alt=\"gardens\" width=\"440\" height=\"262\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-148\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Andre\u0301 Le N\u00f4tre\u2019s formal parterre gardens at the Ch\u00e2teau of Vaux-le-Vicomte<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A symposium featuring four talks about a garden history, design, and culture.<br \/>\nRegistration: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colby.edu\/artdept\/lectures\/southworth-lectures\/\">https:\/\/www.colby.edu\/artdept\/lectures\/southworth-lectures\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Speakers<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>10:15 a.m.\u201311:15 a.m. James L. Wescoat Jr, MIT, \u201cThe Poetics of Mughal Gardens and Subahs in the Akbarnama<\/p>\n<p>11:15 a.m.\u201312:15 p.m. Alison Hardie, University of Leeds \u201cProfessional garden designers and the aesthetic turn in Seventeenth-century China\u201d<\/p>\n<p>2:00 p.m.\u20133:00 p.m. Eric Haskell, Scripps College, \u201cSites of Seduction: French Folly Gardens of the Eighteenth Century\u201d<\/p>\n<p>3:00 p.m.\u20134:00 p.m. Anna Marley, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, \u201cThe Garden as Picture:\u00a0 Impressionism, Progressivism and the American Garden Movement\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Student Discussions:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul class=\"lcp_catlist\" id=\"lcp_instance_0\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/humanslashnature\/2015\/12\/15\/garden-design\/\">Garden Design<\/a>  December 15, 2015<lcp_author>Kathryn Chow<\/lcp_author><div class=\"lcp_excerpt\">This year&#8217;s Southworth Symposium series revolved around the Culture of Nature as depicted in garden design. The symposium featured\u00a0historians, landscape architects, and the like, studying various locations around the world: ...<\/div><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/humanslashnature\/2015\/12\/15\/shift-in-gardening-design-in-17th-century-china\/\">Shift in Gardening Design in 17th Century China<\/a>  December 15, 2015<lcp_author>Kay Shigemori<\/lcp_author><div class=\"lcp_excerpt\">I enjoyed listening to the series of lectures that explored several different types of gardens and learning about the history behind the gardens in each of the different countries. The ...<\/div><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/humanslashnature\/2015\/11\/29\/chinese-gardens\/\">Chinese Gardens<\/a>  November 29, 2015<lcp_author>mekopp<\/lcp_author><div class=\"lcp_excerpt\">During the Ming dynasty in the 17th century, China underwent many social and cultural changes due to the sudden influx of silver from South America. Social mobility consequently led to ...<\/div><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/humanslashnature\/2015\/11\/17\/mughal-gardens\/\">Mughal Gardens<\/a>  November 17, 2015<lcp_author>eroakley<\/lcp_author><div class=\"lcp_excerpt\">This past Saturday, I was lucky enough to go to part of the garden conference held here at Colby. \u00a0I went to the first talk, an exploration of gardens in ...<\/div><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/humanslashnature\/2015\/11\/12\/898\/\">Ming Dynasty Garden Transformation and the Maine Garden Movement<\/a>  November 12, 2015<lcp_author>Nick Pattison<\/lcp_author><div class=\"lcp_excerpt\">The garden conference last Saturday was amazing!! It was really interesting to learn about gardens and garden designs in the Ming Dynasty, during the 15th century, and the turn it ...<\/div><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/humanslashnature\/2015\/11\/07\/the-culture-of-nature-4\/\">The Culture of Nature: Garden Design, East and West, lecture 4<\/a>  November 7, 2015<lcp_author>James Fleming<\/lcp_author><div class=\"lcp_excerpt\">3:00\u20134:00pm\u00a0 Anna Marley, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts\n\u201cThe Garden as Picture: Impressionism, Progressivism and the American Garden Movement\u201d\nAuthor\u2019s abstract: Dr. Marley\u2019s recent exhibition and publication The Artist\u2019s Garden: American ...<\/div><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/humanslashnature\/2015\/11\/07\/the-culture-of-nature-garden-design-east-and-west-lecture-3\/\">The Culture of Nature: Garden Design, East and West, lecture 3<\/a>  November 7, 2015<lcp_author>James Fleming<\/lcp_author><div class=\"lcp_excerpt\">2:00\u20133:00 pm\u00a0 Eric Haskell, Scripps College\n\u201cSites of Seduction: French Folly Gardens of the Eighteenth Century\u201d\nAuthor\u2019s abstract: The aesthetic frames of exoticism, the essential configurations of eroticism, and the illicit intentions ...<\/div><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/humanslashnature\/2015\/11\/07\/the-culture-of-nature-garden-design-east-and-west-lecture-2\/\">The Culture of Nature: Garden Design, East and West, lecture 2<\/a>  November 7, 2015<lcp_author>James Fleming<\/lcp_author><div class=\"lcp_excerpt\">Southworth Lecture #2\n11:15\u201312:15am Alison Hardie, University of Leeds\n\u201cProfessional Garden Designers and the Aesthetic Turn in 17th C China\u201d\nAuthor&#8217;s abstract: In the late Ming dynasty (mid-sixteenth to mid-seventeenth centuries), the concept ...<\/div><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/humanslashnature\/2015\/11\/07\/the-culture-of-nature-garden-design-east-and-west-lecture-1\/\">The Culture of Nature: Garden Design, East and West, lecture 1<\/a>  November 7, 2015<lcp_author>James Fleming<\/lcp_author><div class=\"lcp_excerpt\">Southworth lecture #1\n10:15\u201311:15am \u00a0Nov. 7, 2015\nJames L. Wescoat Jr, Massachusetts Institute of Technology\n\u201cThe Poetics of Mughal Gardens and Subahs in the Akbarnama\u201d\nAuthor&#8217;s abstract: Of the many fragmentary sources on Mughal ...<\/div><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Culture of Nature: Garden Design, East and West. EC November 7, Saturday at 9:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. in the Art Museum and Olin 01 A symposium featuring four talks about a garden history, design, and culture. 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