HESCAH Lecture: The Colonial Forest and the French Landscape

Name: HESCAH Lecture: The Colonial Forest and the French Landscape
Start: 2025-10-02T18:00:00-04:00
Location: Harn Museum of Art

Schedule

Thu, 02 Oct, 2025 at 06:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Harn Museum of Art | Gainesville, FL

Join us for a HESCAH lecture by Dr. Stephanie O’Rourke, Senior Lecturer in Art History, University of St. Andrew, Scotland.
"The Colonial Forest and the French Landscape"
Dr. Stephanie O’Rourke is a Senior Lecturer in Art History at the University of St Andrews in Scotland, and a specialist in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century European art, with a focus on landscape, scientific knowledge, and colonial extractive practices. She is the author of Art, Science and the Body in Early Romanticism (Cambridge University Press, 2021), which won the British Association for Romantic Studies First Book Prize, and Picturing Landscape in an Age of Extraction (University of Chicago Press, forthcoming 2025). Her research has appeared in leading journals such as Art History, Representations, and Journal18, and she has contributed to major exhibitions at institutions like MoMA and the Milwaukee Art Museum.
Image credit: Achille-Etna Michallon, Beech Tree (Étude de hêtre), by 1817. Oil on canvas, 36.2cm x 28.9 cm. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.