Early Modern Center Winter Conference 2009: "Before Environmentalism" (March 6, 2009)
Red Deer Stag and Hind, George Stubbs, 1792

 

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
“Controlling Nature: Francis Bacon and the Origins of Experimentation”

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