About the Event
Lauren Cannady is a scholar working at the intersections of art history, intellectual history, and environmental humanities whose research examines artistic production and taxonomies of knowledge in early modern Europe and colonial North America. With a PhD in Art History from New York University, her research has been supported by the Huntington Library, the Newberry Library, the Clark Art Institute, and the Deutsches Forum für Kunstgeschichte. She is co-editor of Crafting Enlightenment: Artisanal Histories and Transnational Networks (2021). Her most recent article, “On the Persistence of the Organic: The Material Lives of the Robinia pseudoacacia,” (2023) traces the environmental and social histories of European botanical colonialism through a North American tree species. She is completing a book on early modern patterned gardens as sites of knowledge production and transmission.
Join us after the talk for a Q&A and reception. For catering purposes, please RSVP.
