The Greenhouse Reading Group Lent Term Week 2

The Greenhouse is a meeting place for students and researchers interested the history and sociology of plants, food, agriculture and environment to explore how science and technology shape what we grow and eat. The regular programme of papers and discussions is curated in conjunction with the project From Collection to Cultivation, which is funded by the Wellcome Trust.

We meet fortnightly on Thursdays, 1–2pm, via Zoom. All welcome! If you're outside the Department and keen to join us, please email hps-cultivation@lists.cam.ac.uk

Organised by Helen Anne Curry and Jessica J. Lee.

This week, we'll discuss a broad range of readings on plant classification, invasion ecologies, and "weeds". 

• Harriet Ritvo. 'At the Edge of the Garden: Nature and Domestication in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Britain.' Huntington Library Quarterly 55, No. 3 (1992), pp. 363–378 
• Catriona Sandilands. 'Dog Stranglers in the Park?: National and Vegetal Politics in Ontario's Rouge Valley.'  Journal of Canadian Studies 47, no. 3(2013): 93–122

Further Reading (optional):

• Helen Anne Curry. 'Wanted Weeds: Environmental History in the Whipple Museum.' The Whipple Museum of the History of Science. 223-236. Cambridge: CUP, 2019. 
• Harriet Ritvo. 'Invasion/Invasive.' Environmental Humanities 9, no. 1 (2017): 171–174.