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:433@1718.ucla.edu DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231201T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231202T180000 DTSTAMP:20231113T170443Z URL:https://1718.ucla.edu/events/converting-natural-resources/ SUMMARY:Converting Natural Resources: Representations\, Performances\, Narr atives DESCRIPTION:\n\nConference organized by Elisa Antonietta Daniele\, Marie Sk łodowska-Curie Fellow\, University of California\, Los Angeles/University of Bologna and Bronwen Wilson\, University of California\, Los Angeles\n\ nCo-sponsored by Making Green Worlds\, Social Sciences and Humanities Rese arch Council of Canada\, Marie Sklodowska-Curie Grant\, and the European U nion’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Program.\n\nThis conference considers visual\, textual\, material\, and performative engagement with p rocesses of commodification in the early modern world. It explores how ima ges\, objects\, and practices converted environments into resources\, natu ral resources into lucrative items with commercial and tax-yielding signif icance\, and destructive forces and forced labor into idealized landscapes and aestheticized bodies. The conference shifts the focus from the collec tion and display of phenomena in cabinets of curiosities\, to the mechanis ms and processes through which raw materials were converted into commoditi es.\n\nThe commodity\, and the creation of its idea\, following Karl Marx\ , develops independently of its creators and is capable of triggering tran sformations of humans and landscapes. While worldly goods is a familiar th eme from studies\, for example\, of still lifes and of tulip mania\, this conference fastens onto resources\, such as minerals\, pearls\, metals\, p igments\, glass\, ambergris\, sugar\, and paper\, and onto ways in which t hese materials accrued new values and meanings. Such conversions of resour ces into products often entailed material\, formal\, and social transforma tions\, which were often managed through diverse media\, re-mediation\, an d repetition. Accordingly\, “Converting Natural Resources” considers h ow new audiences and consumers for commodities were cultivated through nar ratives\, images\, and artifacts.\n\nSpeakers\nCarrie Anderson\, Middlebur y College\nSonia Cavicchioli\, University of Bologna\nTaylor Clement\, Uni versity of Louisiana at Lafayette\nJames Clifton\, Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation and Museum of Fine Arts\, Houston\nKevin Dawson\, University of California\, Merced\nCaroline Fowler\, The Clark Art Institute\nMatthew G in\, University of North Carolina at Charlotte\nShannon Kelley\, Fairfield University\nCaroline LaPorte-Burns\, McGill University\nBernadette Myers\ , New York University\nMarissa Nicosia\, The Pennsylvania State University - Abington College\nSylvia Tongyan Qiu\, University of California\, Los A ngeles\nCambra Sklarz\, University of California\, Riverside\nAngela Vanha elen\, McGill University\n\n\n\nFriday\, December 1\, 2023\n\n9:00 a.m.          \nBronwen Wilson\, University of California\, Los Angeles\, and Elisa Antonietta Daniele\, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow\, Universit y of California\, Los Angeles/University of Bologna\nIntroduction\n\n9:15 a.m.\nSession 1: Consumption \nChair: Bronwen Wilson\, University of Calif ornia\, Los Angeles\n\nMarissa Nicosia\, The Pennsylvania State University - Abington College\n“Recipes for Commodities: Seasoning Natural Resourc es in Renaissance England”\n\n9:45 a.m.\nTaylor Clement\, University of Louisiana at Lafayette\n“’The Profitable Arte’: Commodifying the Eng lish Garden”\n\n10:15 a.m.\nDiscussion\n\n10:45 a.m.\nCoffee break\n\n11 :15 a.m.\nSession 2: Ligneous Conversions\nChair: Victoria Addona\, Univer sité de Montréal\n\nShannon Kelley\, Fairfield University\n“Colonialit y\, Race\, and Pine Trees”\n\n11:45 a.m.\nJames Clifton\, Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation and Museum of Fine Arts\, Houston\n“’Welcome to th e world of glamorous woods!’: On the Commodification of Wood for the Eur opean Market in the 16th to 18th Centuries”\n\n12:15 p.m.\nMatthew Gin\, University of North Carolina at Charlotte\n“Producing Pageantry: An Aud it of Materials and Processes in a Parisian Warehouse\, c. 1753”\n\n12:4 5 p.m.\nDiscussion\n\n1:15 p.m.\nLunch\n\n2:30 p.m.\nSession 3: Submersion \nChair: Lyle Massey\, University of California\, Irvine\n\nBernadette Mye rs\, New York University\n“Coalface: Embodying Air Pollution in Early Mo dern Performance Culture”\n\n3:00 p.m.\nKevin Dawson\, University of Cal ifornia\, Merced\n“Waterscapes and Wet Bodies: Beach Culture in Atlantic Africa and the Diaspora\, 1444—1888”\n\n3:30 p.m.\nDiscussion\n\n4:00 p.m.\nCoffee break\n\n4:15 p.m.\nSession 4: Suppression\nChair: Stephanie Schrader\, Getty Center\n\nCaroline Fowler\, The Clark Art Institute\n“ Rethinking Erasure in Frans Post's Landscapes”\n\n4:45 p.m.\nAngela Vanh aelen\, McGill University\n“Oppositional Modalities of Being: Woman on a Beach in colonial Dutch Brazil”\n\n5:15 p.m.\nDiscussion\n\n6:00 p.m.\n Conclusion\n\nSaturday\, December 2\, 2023\n\n9:00 a.m.\nSession 5: Making Territories\nChair: Elisa Antonietta Daniele\, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fe llow\, University of California\, Los Angeles/University of Bologna\n\nSon ia Cavicchioli\, University of Bologna\n“’Nos Mutina effinxit’: Terr acotta and the Shape of a Territory in Northern Italy (1400-1800)”\n\n9: 30 a.m.\nCambra Sklarz\, University of California\, Riverside\n“The Arti st in the Community: Art\, Materials\, and Domestic Labor in Early America ”\n\n10:00 a.m.\nDiscussion\n\n10:30 a.m.\nCoffee break\n\n11:00 a.m.\nS ession 6: Unearthly Conversions \nChair: Rachel Weiss\, University of Cali fornia\, Los Angeles\n\nCarrie Anderson\, Middlebury College\n“Beads\, A dornment\, and Commodification in the Dutch Atlantic World”\n\n11:30 a.m .\nCaroline LaPorte-Burns\, McGill University\n“Up in a Puff of Smoke: A Salvaged Mother-of-Pearl Snuffbox and the Lessons of Shipwrecks for Early Modern Art History”\n\n12:00 p.m.\nSylvia Tongyan Qiu\, University of C alifornia\, Los Angeles\n“Out of the Water\, Into the Sky: A Pearl-Inlai d Celestial Globe and the Limits of the Qing Cosmos”\n\n12:30 p.m.\nDisc ussion\n\n1:15 p.m.\nConclusion\n\n\n\nThe conference is free to attend wi th advance registration\, and will be held in-person at the Clark Library. Registration will close on Monday\, November 27 at 5:00 p.m. Seating is l imited at the Clark Library\; walk-in registrants are welcome as space per mits.\n\nLoading…\n\n\n\nImage: Karel van Mallery after Jan van der Stra et\, "The Introduction of the Silkworm\," engraving\, c. 1595. https://www .rijksmuseum.nl/en (public domain) CATEGORIES:Conferences LOCATION:UCLA William Andrews Clark Memorial Library\, 2520 Cimarron Street \, Los Angeles\, California\, 90018\, United States GEO:34.033012;-118.314487 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=2520 Cimarron Street\, Los Angeles\, California\, 90018\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=UC LA William Andrews Clark Memorial Library:geo:34.033012,-118.314487 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20231105T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR