On 27 April, 2023, Nico Carpentier will give a lecture on “Power and Gardens: A reflection on the taming of nature” at the Nationalmuseum in Sweden. Driven by a discursive-material analysis, the talk is a reflection on how gardens are locations where nature is tamed, and how they often perform an anthropocentric ideology that is strengthened by a series of other discourses, such as capitalism and colonialism.