Book of Nature, Nature of Books: Practices of Female Botanists
19-20 juin 2025
Université de Bourgogne, MSH - Dijon (France)
The research centres TIL (Université de Bourgogne) and EMMA (Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3) are organizing a bilingual (French-English) international interdisciplinary conference on the role of women in the development of botany as part of visual, manuscript and print cultures, from the Middle Ages to the contemporary period.
We propose to foster discussions at the intersections of the history of natural sciences, print culture, book history, illustration studies, gender studies, plant studies and ecocriticism. Papers may focus on a wide variety of case studies pertaining to any geographical area, from herbals to non-fiction writing, from publishers’ and libraries’ archives to museum collections, or from the garden to the diary and to the printed book. They will address the role of women as amateur or professional botanists, gardeners, members of clubs, illustrators, diarists, writers, publishers, and in any other capacity where their individual practices bear on forms of manuscript and print artefacts.
Discipline scientifique :
Anthropologie biologique - Art et histoire de l'art - Etudes de l'environnement - Etudes sur le genre - Histoire, Philosophie et Sociologie des sciences - Histoire - Sciences de l'information et de la communication - Littératures
Lieu de la conférence