We look forward to inviting you to the conference Sites of Botanical Knowledge Production, which will take place at the Teatro botanico dell’Orto botanico di Padova (via Orto botanico 15), Padua, Italy, on 22–23 May 2025. This is an in-person event organized by the University of Padua in collaboration with Dumbarton Oaks, a research institute of Harvard University in Washington, DC.

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The speakers include Sheila Barker (Medici Archive Project, Florence), Elena Canadelli (University of Padua), Lucie Strnadová (Charles University, Prague), Sylva Dobalová (Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague), Florike Egmond (independent scholar, Rome), Juliette Ferdinand (University of Verona / Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Sciences Historiques et Philologiques, Paris), Oury Goldman (University Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne), Noël Golvers (Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium), Sarah Kyle (Iowa State University, USA), Marlise Rijks (Vrije Universiteit, Brussels / Ghent University, Belgium), Barbara Di Gennaro Splendore (Italian Council for Agricultural Research and Economics , Padua), Anatole Tchikine (Dumbarton Oaks, USA), Luca Tonetti (University of Padua), and Tilmann Walter (independent scholar, Würzburg).

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The conference poster is available here. The program including abstracts is found on the University of Padua website: https://www.dissgea.unipd.it/international-conference-sites-botanical-knowledge-production. To register, please use the following link: https://forms.gle/k7fXdt5wa4dm81w48; conference registration is free.  

 

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