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EARTH PERFECT? Nature, Utopia, and the Garden

Symposium June 6-9, 2013

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.

Call for Papers :
Abstracts and proposals for papers and panels due March 4, 2013.

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: http://www.udel.edu/ihrc/conference/earthperfect/call-for-papers.html

Please see the symposium website for more details regarding venues, programming, lodging, and registration: http://www.udel.edu/earthperfect .