The Clusius lectures carry as theme the garden as tangent of culture and nature. In
these lectures the underlying questions concerning the history of science, art and
culture will be approached in a broad sense. These terrains showed a strong coherence
in Clusius’ time.
By organizing lectures the Clusius Foundation aims to increase the growing interest in
the historical and cultural aspects of the garden and provide them with a scientific
base. In doing so it strives for a multidisciplinary approach, in which historians,
art historians, linguists, architects, sociologists, biologists and horticultural
experts are involved. And moreover anyone who has an interest in gardens in general.
2009 Van Vuilnis tot Natuur - From Garbage to Garden From Garbage to Garden in the Netherlands door Prof. Erik Luiten, Technische Universiteit Delft Botanical Aspects of Metal-contaminated Wastelands and Options for Phytoremediation door Prof. Wilfried Ernst,
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam From Garbage Dump to Landscape door Prof. Peter Latz, Technische Universiteit München
The Clusius lectures 2009 are made possible through contributions by the Ir. Abe
Bonnema Foundation and an anonymous donor.
The Lectures will be published with financial support of the Ir. Abe Bonnema
Foundation.
2008 The Water Garden
Wybe Kuitert, Landscape architect (Netherlands), Guest Professor University of Art and Design, Kyoto (Japan): Introduction: Some Thoughts on Water in Landscape Design
John Dixon Hunt, Professor of the History and Theory of Landscape, University of Pennsylvania: The Forms of Water: Some Historical Notes
Michael van Gessel, Garden and landscape architect, Amsterdam: The Water Garden in modern design
These Clusius lectures were made possible through a gift by an anonymous donor, the
Ir. Abe Bonnema Foundation and the M.A.O.C. Gravin van Bylandt Foundation.
2007 Japanese Gardens: Tradition and Modernity
Prof. Dr. Erik de Jong, Clusius Chair, University of Leiden/University of Wageningen:
Introduction
Prof. Dr. Willem van Gulik, Universiteit Leiden: Japanese Garden Tradition
Prof. Dr. Wybe Kuitert, Kyoto University of Art and Design/Research Center for Japanese Garden Art, Kyoto: Gardening with Cherries in Ancient Japan
Dr. Christian Tschumi, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology: The Modern Japanese Gardens of Shigemori Mirei
Prof. Dr. Willem van Gulik, moderator: Discussion
These Clusius lectures were made possible by the Isaac Alfred Ailion Foundation, Leiden.
2006 An afternoon with China: Landscapes, Gardens, Plants
Alison Hardie, Newcastle upon Tyne: Heaven, Earth and Man: Chinese religious systems and garden tradition
Johannes Müller, Würzburg: Cultural landscapes of China
Roy Lancaster, Eastleigh, Hampshire: A century of European plant hunters in China: 1900-2000
These Clusius lectures were made possible with support from the Hulsewé-Wazniewski
Foundation and the Prince Bernhard Culture fund Zuid-Holland.
2005 Plants in Pharaonic Egypt
Dr. Marina Heilmeyer, Botanisches Museum Berlin-Dahlem Horticulture and Cosmology in Ancient Egypt
Prof. Dr. Sydney Aufrère, CNRS/ Universiteit van Montpellier
These Clusius lectures were made possible by the M.A.O.C. Gravin van Bylandt Foundation and the Prince Bernhard Culture Fund Zuid-Holland.
2001 Hortus: Closed or Open: Visible or Invisible?
Dr Erik de Jong, Amsterdam Architecture and Nature
Charles Correa, Bombay, India
1997 Theatres of Flowers: The Art and Science of Eighteenth Century
Floral Display
Dr Mark Laird, Toronto, Canada New Gardens, New Plants
Piet Oudolf, Hummelo
1996 The concept of Nature in East and West
Dr Ulrich Libbrecht, Leuven Nature, Style and Rationality
Dr Stephen Toulmin, Los Angeles
1994 Tulips in Science and Art
Dr A. Stork, Botanische Tuin van Genève
Dr M. Impey, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
