CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
8:30-9:00 Conference Registration and Coffee
9:00-9:15 Welcome Address: Professor Ken Hiltner, Director of the EMC
9:15-10:35 Keynote Speaker: Carolyn Merchant, UC Berkeley
Introduced by Ken Hiltner, Department of English, UCSB
10:35-10:45 Break
10:45-12:00 Panel One: The Empire Lands
Moderator: William Gahan, Department of English, UCSB
Ian MacInnes: "Showing the mettle of your pasture: Animal fodder as national identity in early modern England”
Gregory Schnitzspahn: "The New River's "Well-Wishers": Hugh Myddelton, Thomas Middleton, and Privatization of Water in Early Modern England"
Edward Test: "Bringing the Environment Home: the Development of Botanical Studies in 16th Century Europe"
John Wing: "Forest Maps and Royal Bureaucrats: Spanish state formation and the creation of an early modern geographic information system"
12:00-1:00 Lunch
1:00-2:20 Keynote Speaker: Jill Casid, University of Wisconsin, Madison
“Practices of Change at the Edges of the Human: Transplantation and Cross-Species Encounter in the Eighteenth Century”
Introduced by Ann Bermingham, History of Art and Architecture, UCSB
2:20-2:30 Break
2:30-3:30 Panel Two: Political and Social Landscaping
Moderator- E. Heckendorn Cook, Department of English, UCSB
Rachel Crawford: "Simplex Munditiis: English Formality and the Seventeenth-Century Garden"
Calley A. Hornbuckle: "Ann Radcliffe's Latent Environmentalism"
Jennifer Ohlund: "The "Miry Trace": Contamination in John Gay's Trivia"
3:30-3:45 Break
3:45-4:45 Panel Three: The Smell of Words
Moderator- Eileen Boris, Department of Feminist Studies, UCSB
Jayne Lewis: "Experiments, Observations, and the Gothic Grammar of Atmosphere"
Rachel Ann Hanan: "The Physics of Rhetoric in Puttenham's Arte "
4:45-5:00 Closing