Wednesday 26 September 2018
Cambridge University Botanic Garden
Day two of the three-day Sorted! Festival at the Botanic Garden celebrating the opening of the Rising Path.
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Founder of the Botanic Garden, Professor John Henslow gave the children in his parish school ‘instruction in botany as a useful and not unimportant method of awakening curiosity’. How do we look at plants today? Perspectives today range from the molecular to the poetic, but all start with curiosity.
Sorted! takes place in the beautiful and very comfortable Auditorium of the Sainsbury Laboratory, Cambridge University, which is located behind-the-scenes at the Botanic Garden. Your ticket price includes admission to the Garden (opens at 10am), all the talks, morning refreshments and sandwich lunch from the Garden Café, and optional tours at the end of the day.
Morning I
A trick of the light? Petal surfaces that influence pollinator behaviour
Professor Beverley Glover, Cambridge University Botanic Garden
Becoming ‘all eye’: Virginia Woolf’s colour sense
Dr Claudia Tobin, Faculty of English, Cambridge University
Morning II
Taxonomy from Space
Professor David Coomes, Department of Plant Sciences, Cambridge University
The micro-scale imaging of alpine plants
Dr Ray Wightman, Sainsbury Laboratory, Cambridge University
Afternoon
Re-Organising Paradise: Making sense of the flower and physic garden in medieval and Tudor England
Dr Twigs Way, landscape historian and Chair, Cambridge Gardens Trust
Any Other Name: The Poetics of Perfume
Dr Sophie Read, Faculty of English, Cambridge University
Optional late afternoon tours
Director’s picks
The Systematics Beds
Research facilities
For full details of the day's programme and speaker biographies, visit the Garden's website at www.botanic.cam.ac.uk
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Running time:
10:15 - 15:15