The Well-Gardened Mind: 9 June 2021

Sue Stuart-Smith, The Well-Gardened Mind: The Restorative Power of Nature (Scribner, 2020).

We will be meeting to discuss chapters three and nine from Sue Stuart-Smith’s The Well-Gardened Mind ahead of her talk on the 17th June at 5pm. As suggested, we will meet in real life at Cambridge University Botanic Gardens. Those attending will need to book a place in advance to visit the garden. The garden is vast, so we suggest that we meet close to the Station Road Entrance, near the picnic tables before the junction of paths which lead into the garden proper. 

Jamaica Kincaid: May 6th

All readings available on the Plant Life Moodle site:

Alexandre Antonelli, ‘It’s Time to Decolonise Botanical Collections’, Kew Royal Botanic Gardens,June 25th, 2020. https://www.kew.org/read-and-watch/time-to-decolonise-botanical-collections

Melvin Hunter, ‘Racist Relics: An Ugly Blight On Our Botanical Nomenclature’, The Scientist, November 24th, 1991.

Jamaica Kincaid, ‘Alien Soil’, The New Yorker, June 21st, 1993.

Jamaica Kincaid, ‘Flowers of Evil’, The New Yorker, October 5th, 1992.

Jamaica Kincaid, ‘The Disturbances of the Garden’, The New Yorker, August 31st, 2020. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/09/07/the-disturbances-of-the-garden

James Wong, ‘Weeding Out Horticulture’s Race Problem’, The Guardian, June 14th, 2020. https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2020/jun/14/james-wong-weeding-out-the-race-problem-in-horticulture