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From the symposium programme:

Hanover and England: A Garden and Personal Union?
German and British Garden Culture between 1714 and Today
Leibniz Universität Hannover, 26–27 February 2014

Registration due by 14 February 2014

When George I, Elector of Hanover, was enthroned in England in 1714 he established a personal union that existed until 1837 leaving many cultural and political marks. Its 300th anniversary will be celebrated in the conference Hanover and England: a garden and personal union? German and British garden culture between 1714 and today. The symposium will not only focus on questions of garden history but also consider furthermore the contemporary background on which ideas on art, agriculture, commerce, technology, literature and politics were
exchanged.

In view of the encyclopaedic interest of the late 18th century, it is self-evident to invite several academic disciplines to describe and to discuss the cultural transfer between Great Britain and Hanover. The transfer of horticultural and artistic ideas very often flourished in the 19th century at different places. This gives reason to focus the conference on two key parts: the Hanoverian-British exchange between 1714 and 1837 (the period of the actual personal union) and the Anglo-German relations that open perspectives even into the present age.

In cooperation with the Technische Universität Dresden and funded by Niedersächsisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kultur. The symposium will be conducted in English. Registration information is available online.

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Hanover and England: The Period of the Personal Union, 1714–1837

Welcome and Introduction
10.00  Klaus Hulek (Vice-President for Research, Leibniz Universität Hannover)
Simon McDonald (British Ambassador to Germany)
Stefan Schostok (Lord Mayor of Hannover)
Annette Schwandner (Ministry of Science and Culture, Lower Saxony)
10.30 Marcus Köhler (Hochschule Neubrandenburg, TU Dresden) and Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn (Leibniz Universität Hannover)

I. Historical Introduction
11.00  Arndt Reitemeier (Universität Göttingen, Institut für Historische Landesforschung), “The personal union”

II. Arts, Architecture and Environment
11.30  Wolf Burchard (Royal Collection), “Art in Britain during the reign of George I and George II”
12.00  David Jacques (Stoke-on-Trent), “The Early Georgians and the controversy of garden styles”

III.  Agricultural Economy and Landscape Design
12.30  Hansjörg Küster (Leibniz Universität Hannover), “Reform in the time of the personal union”

13.00  Discussion

13.15  Lunch break

IV. Botany
14.15  Sophie von Schwerin (Hochschule für Technik Rapperswil), “For pleasure and science: On the connection between the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and the Berggarten in Herrenhausen”
14.45  Clarissa Campbell Orr (Anglia Ruskin University), “Mary Delany and Queen Charlotte: The botanizing court”
15.15  John R. Edmondson (Hon. Research Associate, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew), “Foreign herbs surpriz’d in English ground: The life and work of Georg D. Ehret (1708–1770)”

V. Water Art / Technology
15.45  Bernd Adam (Hannover), “The Great Fountain and English innovations in Hanover”

16.15  Discussion

16.30  Coffee Break

VI. Iconography and Garden Art
17.00  Michael Niedermeier (Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften), “The German Kinship: Politics and Dynasty in the early ‘English’ garden”
17.30  Carsten Neumann (Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität Greifswald), “The house Bothmer in Klütz: An English-Dutch manor in Mecklenburg”

18.00  Discussion

18.15  Break

19.00  Evening Lecture, in cooperation with the German Association for Garden Art and Landscape Culture (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Gartenkunst und Landschaftskultur, DGGL)
James Hitchmough (University of Sheffield), “Landscape Architecture in early C21st Britain: Issues and challenges”

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T H U R S D A Y ,  2 7  F E B R U A R Y  2 0 1 4
Germany and England: Reflexion and Reception from 1837 until Today

I. Herrenhausen, Kensington and Hampton Court: History and Maintenance
9.00  Guided tour through the Herrenhausen Gardens by Ronald Clark and staff members

11.15  Coffee Break

II. Garden Preservation
11.45  Todd Longstaffe-Gowan (tlg-Landscape London), “The unaffected Englishness of Queen Caroline’s gardens at Kensington Palace”
12.15  Jonathan Finch (University of York), “Hunting and the Georgian Landscape: Exercising privilege”

III. Reception of Gardens
12.45  Gert Gröning (Universität der Künste Berlin), “Bio-aesthetic planning: A conjecture about an imperialistic garden cultural relation between the German Empire and independant India via the English Empire”

13.15  Discussion

13.30  Lunch Break

IV. Literature and Garden Travel
14.30  Sigrid Thielking (Leibniz Universität Hannover), “On the construct ‘English Gardens’: Perception and myth within garden literature”
15.00  Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn (Leibniz Universität Hannover), “Travels and knowledge: German apprenticeship in English gardens and the example of Hans Jancke”

V. Agricultural Economy und Landscape Design
15.30  Hubertus Fischer (Leibniz Universität Hannover), “House Söder as ornamental farm”

16.00  Discussion

VI. Closing Remarks
Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn (Leibniz Universität Hannover)
Marcus Köhler (Hochschule Neubrandenburg, TU Dresden)