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Symposium and exhibitions, June 6-9, 2013
“Since time immemorial, gardens have been key in humanity’s quest to define an ideal relation to nature. Gardens have been sources of nourishment for the body and the soul, they have been symbols of wealth and power, they have served as barriers against the wild, and much more. EARTH PERFECT? Nature, Utopia, and the Garden is a four-day symposium designed for an academic audience, garden professionals, and a general public interested in the importance and meaning of gardens.â€
 Event Locations
- The University of Delaware
- Longwood Gardens, Pennsylvania
- Winterthur Estate Gardens, Delaware
- Chanticleer Garden, Pennsylvania
- The Mount Cuba Center, Delaware
 Events Include
Themed garden tours and exhibitions, as well as lectures, workshops, and academic paper sessions focusing on topics such as wellness and the garden, environment and society, historic preservation and land use, green textiles, CSAs, the garden in the visual arts, the garden in literature, the meaning and function of domestic and public gardens, architecture and the garden, the spiritual associations of gardens, gardening the planet in the face of ecological decline, political aspects of gardening, and economies of the garden.
 Featured Speakers Include:
- Jane Knight, landscape architect of The Eden Project, Cornwall, UK
- Stephen Forbes, Executive Director of the Adelaide Botanic Garden, South Australia
- Emma Marris, author of Rambunctious Garden: Saving Nature in a Post-Wild World
- Margaret Morton, photographer and co-author of Transitory Gardens, Uprooted Lives
- Douglas Tallamy, author of Bringing Nature Home: How Native Plants Sustain Wildlife in Our Gardens
- McKay Jenkins, author of What’s Gotten Into Us: Staying Healthy in a Toxic World
 Call for Papers :
Abstracts and proposals for papers and panels due Dec. 15, 2012
This interdisciplinary event focuses on the importance and meaning of gardens in the past, present, and the future, and that from a wide range of perspectives, including, but not limited to the following disciplines: art, art history, architecture, anthropology, agriculture, philosophy, literature, history, horticulture, botany, landscape architecture, garden design, nutrition, and law, as well as earth and life sciences.
For instructions regarding submission of paper abstracts as well as proposals for panels or roundtable discussions, visit:Â http://www.udel.edu/ihrc/conference/earthperfect/call-for-papers.html
 For More Event Information
See the symposium website for more details regarding venues, programming, lodging, and registration:Â http://www.udel.edu/earthperfect
Cultura21 is a transversal, translocal network, constituted of an international level grounded in several Cultura21 organizations around the world.
Cultura21′s international network, launched in April 2007, offers the online and offline platform for exchanges and mutual learning among its members.
The activities of Cultura21 at the international level are coordinated by a team representing the different Cultura21 organizations worldwide, and currently constituted of:
– Sacha Kagan (based in Lüneburg, Germany) and Rana Öztürk (based in Berlin, Germany)
– Oleg Koefoed and Kajsa Paludan (both based in Copenhagen, Denmark)
– Hans Dieleman (based in Mexico-City, Mexico)
– Francesca Cozzolino and David Knaute (both based in Paris, France)
Cultura21 is not only an informal network. Its strength and vitality relies upon the activities of several organizations around the world which are sharing the vision and mission of Cultura21
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