Useful Gardens
International Workshop
Organisé par Maddalena Bellavitis
Informations pratiques :
Mercredi 25 février 2026
Centre de recherche et de restauration des musées de France – Paris
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The admission is free, but those who wish to attend the workshop need to send their name to maddalena.bellavitis@culture.gouv.fr
PROGRAMME
10.00: welcome and opening
Maddalena Bellavitis (C2RMF ; Saprat, EPHE – PSL), Maria Muñoz Benavent (UMH), TBC
10.15: presentations
Erinç Salor-Broberg, University of Amsterdam
Hortus Medicus: Amsterdam’s Medicinal Garden through Time and Space
Sanne Steen, Erasmus University Rotterdam
Christianity and Spirituality in the Early Modern Kitchen Garden
Maria Luisa Mutschlechner
Inside the Aurelian Walls in Rome: The Janiculum Hill—A Landscape Shaped by Scientific and Productive Gardens from 1600 to 1800
Esther Jones, Cardiff and Bristol Universities
Family Trees: Negotiating Domesticity in the Eighteenth-Century Gentry Garden
Valentine Delrue, Ghent University
Weather-wise Gardens? Meteorological and Botanical Knowledge in Eighteenth-Century Philadelphia
Esther Lupón González, University of Zaragoza
Gardens as Ceremonial Infrastructure: Utility, Sensory Design, and Power at Madīnat al-Zahrāʾ
13.15: Discussion and conclusions