Prof. Tine L. Meganck presents her research at the conference The Power of Flowers, 1500-1750.
This interdisciplinary conference aims to investigate how flowers, and the fruits they produce, represented power in a myriad of ways in the early modern world. The speakers will address the function of flowers (including the flowering process, culminating in fruit) as tools of political, religious, or commercial power, as instruments of global and local knowledge transfer and appropriation, as well as their role in art-making, science, and the construction of gender between c. 1500-1750.
This event is organized by the Universiteit Gent.
Place
The conference takes place from 14 to 15 June, 2023, at the Museum of Fine Arts (MSK) in Ghent.
More information on the complete program and registrations, here.