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:496@1718.ucla.edu DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250425T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250425T120000 DTSTAMP:20250325T153921Z URL:https://1718.ucla.edu/events/energy-transitions-day1/ SUMMARY:Energy Transitions in Long Modernity (Day 1) DESCRIPTION:\nConference organized by Robert N. Watson (University of Cali fornia\, Los Angeles)\, Tiffany Jo Werth (University of California\, Davis )\, and Todd Borlik (Purdue University)\n\nCo-sponsored by the UCLA CMRS C enter for Early Global Studies and the UC Davis Medieval and Early Modern Studies Program\n\n\nOnline event via Zoom\nTo register\, please visit: ht tps://ucla.zoom.us/meeting/register/16-Z8Yv_S0y3k18NdEb-Ew\n\n\nThe recent turn to the ‘energy humanities’ is only beginning to galvanize schola rship on the material and symbolic impact of energy regimes in the long hi story of modernity. While the 2017 anthology edited by Imre Szeman and Dom inic Boyer provides a handy compendium of resources and heralds the field ’s arrival\, its table of contents consists almost entirely of post-2000 texts and does not include any material written prior to the mid-twentiet h century. As this indicates\, research in the energy humanities remains f ocused somewhat myopically on the past seventy-five years\, and often appe als to reductive notions of an Industrial Revolution in the late eighteent h century as the terminus a quo for any investigation into the topic. Bu t the fact remains that humans have excelled at extracting energy from the earth long before the formation of Standard Oil or Watt's invention of the steam engine. Harnessing the power of ocean currents and winds\, to ta ke one example\, allowed for the initial voyages that brought Europeans su ch as Sir Francis Drake to the shores of California\, or what he called N ova Albion.\n\nCalifornia boasts itself as a hub for transitioning energy from fossil fuels to renewable sources such as wind\, water\, and solar po wer. Taking this local\, contemporary perspective as its departure point\, this conference looks to the past and a deep history of energy transition s (and additions) in order to better understand how to negotiate this swit ch. We will convene scholars around the topics of “energy\,” “extrac tion\,” and “exploitation\,” in the period we are calling “long mo dernity” (16th–21stcentury). Our guiding questions are: What are the c ultural narratives that surround moments of energy transitions? Should we speak of energy “transitions” or energy “additions”? How is ene rgy represented in the visual and textual archives of major energy consume rs such as North America and England\, particularly at moments of colonial ambition and expansion? This conference brings together diverse disciplin es to unpack the complex dynamics that accompany energy regime change as e xpressed by technological development and represented in creative media th at span the centuries of long modernity and that connect the local to the global\, the past to the present.\n\nThe local and global impact of harnes sing such energy pathways cannot be overstated. In particular\, this confe rence will highlight the penumbra of energy grids for its effect on indig enous\, minority\, and vulnerable populations and species. This conference exploration over the long durée of history seeks to understand how an en ergy transition might conserve\, rather than ravage\, the environment and species by understanding how energy infrastructures affect earth and its e cosystems.\n\nSpeakers\nVictoria Googasian\, Georgetown University in Qata r\nUrsula K. Heise\, University of California\, Los Angeles\nGraeme Macdon ald\, University of Warwick\nElizabeth Carolyn Miller\, University of Cali fornia\, Davis\nKirsten Schuhmacher\, University of California\, Davis\nSi d Shah\, University of California\, Los Angeles\n\n\n\nProgram Schedule\n\ n9:00 a.m.\nDirector’s Welcome\nCarla Gardina Pestana\, University of Ca lifornia\, Los Angeles\n\nOpening Remarks\nRobert N. Watson\, University o f California\, Los Angeles\, and Tiffany Jo Werth\, University of Californ ia\, Davis\n\n9:15 a.m.\nOpening Provocation and Q&\;A\nUrsula K. Heise \, University of California\, Los Angeles\n"From Solarity to Solarpunk and Beyond”\n\n9:45 a.m.\nVictoria Googasian\, Georgetown University in Qat ar\n“Energy Labor and Disability in Twentieth-Century U.S. Space Opera ”\n\n10:15 a.m.\nGraeme Macdonald\, University of Warwick\n“The Perpet ual Problem\, or\, Long Renewability”\n\n10:45 a.m.\nElizabeth Carolyn M iller\, University of California\, Davis\n"Energy Transitions at Sea: The Industrial Ocean in Literature and Culture"\n\n11:15 a.m.\nQ&\;A\n\nGra duate Student Lightning Talks\n\n11:30 a.m.\nKirsten Schuhmacher\, Ph.D. C andidate\, Department of English\, University of California\, Davis\n\n11: 40 a.m.\nSid Shah\, Ph.D. Candidate\, California Center for Sustainable Co mmunities\, University of California\, Los Angeles\n\n11:50 a.m.\nQ&\;A \n\n12:00 p.m.\nConclusion\n\n\n\nImage: Jan Cossiers\, Prometheus\, oil o n canvas\, 1636–1638\, Museo del Prado\, Madrid.  CATEGORIES:Conferences END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20250309T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR