'HORTICULTURAL GEOGRAPHIES'
University of Nottingham, UK
WEDNESDAY 17th - THURSDAY 18th SEPTEMBER 2003

This special two-day conference will focus on recent work on gardens, gardening and horticulture within human geography and other spatially-informed disciplines. This will be the first major UK conference to bring together researchers working in the field of horticultural geography.

The conference will address the following themes:

• British and International Perspectives
• Well Being & Identity
• Political and Economic Geographies of Horticulture
• Historical Perspectives
• Embodiment, Bodily Practice Memory and the Garden
• Conceptual Geographies of Horticulture.

Speakers include:

• Mark Bhatti (University of Brighton).
• Professor Andrew Church (University of Brighton).
• Professor David Crouch (Universities of Derby, Karlstad and Kalmar).
• Professor Stephen Daniels (University of Nottingham).
• Professor Mark Francis (University of California, Davis).
• Professor Gert Groening (Berlin University of the Arts).
• Elizabeth Lebas (Middlesex University).
• Joe Sempik (Loughborough University).

There will be a keynote public lecture by Dr Toby Musgrave (freelance garden historian and journalist) and a guided tour of the University gardens by Ian Cooke (Grounds Manager, University of Nottingham).

Further information from the contact below, via email.

Full details of the conference are provided at our website below and http://www.le.ac.uk/emoha/news/garden/index.html