Having lived and worked on three continents, it’s not surprising that one of Jill’s research interests is international and cross-cultural issues in landscape studies.

She has been invited to present a paper “ ‘For beauty, and air, and view’: contemplating the wider surroundings of sixteenth-century Mughal and European gardens” as part of the panel on Islamic and Renaissance Gardens: A Case for Mutual Influence? at the second international meeting of the European Architectural History Network, to be held in Brussels, 31 May-3 June 2012.

She was one of the speakers at the symposium Foreign Trends on American Soil, at the University of Pennsylvania School of Design, 18-19 March 2011. Her paper was “ ‘These beautiful pleasure-grounds of Death’: cross-cultural comparisons of values and meaning in the inceptive responses to the Parisian garden cemetery and its American interpretation.”

Both organisers intend to produce published volumes of the conference proceedings.