Virtual Program
From 7:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m.
Art historian Lauren Cannady shares her research on the creation and circulation of botanical knowledge in early modern European gardens. While a 2024 Curtis Gates Lloyd Fellow, she came across a manuscript in the collection that appears to be notes made on-site at the Jardin du Roi in Paris in the summer of 1708 by a student attending Joseph Pitton de Tournefort’s botanical lectures. From an analysis of the Lloyd manuscript, the discussion then turns to early modern empirical practices, botanical scholarship, and knowledge networks.
Lauren R. Cannady, Assistant Professor of Humanities at the University of Houston-Clear Lake, is a scholar working at the intersections of art history, intellectual history, and the environmental humanities. She holds a PhD in Art History from New York University. Through her research and teaching, she explores artistic production and taxonomies of knowledge within interrelated histories of science, religion, technology, and labor in the early modern period. She is completing a book on early modern patterned gardens as sites of knowledge production and transmission, and is co-editor of Crafting Enlightenment: Artisanal Histories and Transnational Networks, which appeared in the Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment series in 2021.