BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.3//EN TZID:America/Los_Angeles X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:VEVENT UID:455@1718.ucla.edu DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240517T091500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240517T173000 DTSTAMP:20240514T163653Z URL:https://1718.ucla.edu/events/assembling-natures-histories/ SUMMARY:Captivity: Assembling Nature's Histories DESCRIPTION:Conference organized by Anna Chen\, Rebecca Fenning Marschall\, and Bronwen Wilson\, University of California\, Los Angeles\n\n\nThe earl y modern period was a hothouse for the study of physical things in the nat ural world\, and for the collection and assembly of them in human-made phy sical spaces. In other periods\, botanical samples were preserved by diari sts in their journals\, such as Poems and Riddles written by Mary Woodyear e Tibbits (ca. 1764–1840)\, and Pressed specimens of butterflies and mot hs (1905)\, compiled by Yasushi Nawa (1857–1926)\, which are both in the Clark Library’s collections. Nawa’s lepidochromic book showcases the technique of “printing butterflies\,” or fixing the scales of their wi ngs onto paper. Specimens of all sorts were admired for their variegated c olors\, curated in collections\, and assembled into books. Birds were capt ured in aviaries for their sounds\, or killed and prepared as specimens fo r display\, study\, and scientific descriptions. Plants were transported a cross oceans in terraria\, and contained in plots and glasshouses.\n\nLibr aries were deeply implicated in these historical pursuits of the collectio n and classification of the contents of the natural world\, as are modern libraries that now grapple with whether and how to preserve the nature tha t enters their collections. The interior-exterior division of libraries is a highly regulated boundary. Libraries strive tirelessly to seal the buil ding envelope against the environmental conditions of the outdoors\, as fl uctuating temperature and humidity levels\, mold spores\, insects\, rodent s and natural disasters all threaten damage to their holdings. Libraries a lso capture books about nature on their shelves\, as flora and fauna cohab itate on their grounds. At the Clark Library\, Cooper hawks nest\, feral c ats roam\, and roots of trees probe the ground in search of water. What mi ght we learn from these efforts to capture and to conserve nature\, couple d with its potential to decompose or to invade environments?\n\nSpeakers\n Frederico Câmara\, Independent Researcher\nAshley Cataldo\, American Ant iquarian Society\nTori Champion\, University of St. Andrews\nCynthia Fang\ , University of California\, Los Angeles\nDavid Jones\, Northwestern Unive rsity\nV.E. Mandrij\, University of Konstanz / University of Amsterdam\nDe irdre Madeleine Smith\, University of Pittsburgh &\; Carnegie Museum of Natural History\nLindsay Wells\, Independent Scholar\nAndrew Weymouth\, U niversity of Idaho\nJennifer Martinez Wormser\, Ella Strong Denison Librar y\, Scripps College\nJoy Zhu\, University of California\, Los Angeles\n\nF or a list of sources at the Clark Library\, please see here. \n\n\n\nProgr am Schedule\nAll times listed in Pacific Daylight Time\nFor each speaker's Abstract &\; Biography\, please click on their name below.\n\n9:15 a.m .\nIntroduction\nAnna Chen\, Rebecca Fenning Marschall\, and Bronwen Wilso n\, University of California\, Los Angeles\n\n9:30 a.m.\nPanel 1: Flight a nd Containment\nModerator: Rebecca Fenning Marschall\, University of Cali fornia\, Los Angeles\n\nCynthia Fang\, University of California\, Los Ange les\n“Containing Sound\, Exhibiting Images: An Aviary at the European Pa lace Complex in Qing China”\n\n9:50 a.m.\nV. E. Mandrij\, University of Konstanz / University of Amsterdam\n“The Lepidochromy Technique: Capturi ng Colors of Butterflies and Moths in Books and Paintings”\n\n10:10 a.m. \nJennifer Martinez Wormser\, Ella Strong Denison Library\, Scripps Colleg e\n“One Hundred Years Later: Ellen Browning Scripps and William Leon Daw son’s Birds of California (1923)”\n\n10:30 a.m.\nDiscussion\n\n11:00 a .m.\nCoffee break\n\n11:30 a.m.\nPanel 2: Accretions\nModerator: Anna Chen \, University of California\, Los Angeles\n\nTori Champion\, University of St. Andrews\n“Material Afterlives: The Shell Craze in Eighteenth-Centur y France and the Forgotten Mollusc”\n\n11:50 a.m.\nJoy Zhu\, University of California\, Los Angeles\n“Misinterpreting Fossil Evidence: On the Di scovery of ’Dragon Fossils‘ in China (1915-1930)”\n\n12:10 p.m.\nAnd rew Weymouth\, University of Idaho\n“Humanizing Nature Research History with Static Web Design”\n\n12:30 p.m.\nDiscussion\n\n1:00 p.m.\nLunch\nD isplay of Clark Library materials in the North Book Room\n\n2:30 p.m.\nPan el 3: Unruly Collections\nModerator: Rebecca Fenning Marschall\, Universit y of California\, Los Angeles\n\nDavid Jones\, Northwestern University\n “In However Low Degree: Reframing the Role of Silverfish in Louis Flecke nstein's Photography”\n\n2:50 p.m.\nAshley Cataldo\, American Antiquaria n Society\n“From Weeding to Reseeding: Removing (and Restoring) Botanica ls in Library Collections”\n\n3:10 p.m.\nDeirdre Madeleine Smith\, Unive rsity of Pittsburgh &\; Carnegie Museum of Natural History\n“Whither ‘Papered Leps’: On Accidental Human Archives at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History”\n\n3:30 p.m.\nDiscussion\n\n4:00 p.m.\nCoffee break\n\ n4:30 p.m.\nPanel 4: Assembling\nModerator: Bronwen Wilson\, University of California\, Los Angeles\n\nLindsay Wells\, Independent Scholar\n“Portr ait of a Colonial Botanist: Joseph Dalton Hooker and the Visual Politics o f Plant Science”\n\n4:50 p.m.\nFrederico Câmara\, Independent Research er\n“Views of Paradise: A Photographic Atlas of the Artificial Environme nts of Zoological Gardens and Aquariums in Oceania”\n\n5:10 p.m.\nDiscus sion\n\n5:30 p.m.\nProgram concludes\n\n\n\nThe conference is free to atte nd with advance registration\, and will be held in-person at the Clark Lib rary and livestreamed on the Center's YouTube Channel. No registration is required to watch the livestream. In-person registration will close on Mon day\, May 13 at 5:00 p.m. Seating is limited at the Clark Library\; walk-i n registrants are welcome as space permits.\nLoading…\n\n\n\nImage: Phot ograph of book: Pressed specimens of butterflies and moths (1905)\, compil ed by Yasushi Nawa\, courtesy of Clark Library collections ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://1718.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/08 /Butterflies-image_150dpi.jpg CATEGORIES:Conferences LOCATION:UCLA William Andrews Clark Memorial Library & via Livestream\, 252 0 Cimarron Street\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90018\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=2520 Cimarron Street\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90018\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=UCLA Willi am Andrews Clark Memorial Library & via Livestream:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20240310T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR