On 26 February 2024 Clare Pettitt spoke at the launch of The Victorian Idyll in Art and Literature: Subject, Ecology, Form eds. Thomas Hughes and Emma Merkling (London: Routledge, 2024).  The book includes a chapter that Pettitt has joint written with Art Historian, Professor Caroline Arscott (The Courtauld Institute of Art) entitled, ‘Multicolour as Disavowal: The Racial Politics of the Nineteenth-Century Idyll’. The launch was hosted by Queer@King’s at King’s College London. This is the first publication on a new project about botany, colonialism and idyllic form that Pettitt and Arscott are currently developing.