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:497@1718.ucla.edu DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250516T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250516T111500 DTSTAMP:20250325T154221Z URL:https://1718.ucla.edu/events/energy-transitions-day2/ SUMMARY:Energy Transitions in Long Modernity (Day 2) 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\nThe recent t urn to the ‘energy humanities’ is only beginning to galvanize scholars hip on the material and symbolic impact of energy regimes in the long hist ory of modernity. While the 2017 anthology edited by Imre Szeman and Domin ic Boyer provides a handy compendium of resources and heralds the field’ s arrival\, its table of contents consists almost entirely of post-2000 te xts and does not include any material written prior to the mid-twentieth c entury. As this indicates\, research in the energy humanities remains focu sed somewhat myopically on the past seventy-five years\, and often appeals to reductive notions of an Industrial Revolution in the late eighteenth c entury as the terminus a quo for any investigation into the topic. But t he fact remains that humans have excelled at extracting energy from the ea rth long before the formation of Standard Oil or Watt's invention of the steam engine. Harnessing the power of ocean currents and winds\, to take one example\, allowed for the initial voyages that brought Europeans such as Sir Francis Drake to the shores of California\, or what he called Nova Albion.\n\nCalifornia boasts itself as a hub for transitioning energy fro m fossil fuels to renewable sources such as wind\, water\, and solar power . Taking this local\, contemporary perspective as its departure point\, th is conference looks to the past and a deep history of energy transitions ( and additions) in order to better understand how to negotiate this switch. We will convene scholars around the topics of “energy\,” “extractio n\,” and “exploitation\,” in the period we are calling “long moder nity” (16th–21stcentury). Our guiding questions are: What are the cult ural narratives that surround moments of energy transitions? Should we sp eak of energy “transitions” or energy “additions”? How is energy represented in the visual and textual archives of major energy consumers such as North America and England\, particularly at moments of colonial am bition and expansion? This conference brings together diverse disciplines to unpack the complex dynamics that accompany energy regime change as expr essed by technological development and represented in creative media that span the centuries of long modernity and that connect the local to the glo bal\, the past to the present.\n\nThe local and global impact of harnessin g such energy pathways cannot be overstated. In particular\, this conferen ce will highlight the penumbra of energy grids for its effect on indigeno us\, minority\, and vulnerable populations and species. This conference ex ploration over the long durée of history seeks to understand how an energ y transition might conserve\, rather than ravage\, the environment and spe cies by understanding how energy infrastructures affect earth and its ecos ystems.\n\nSpeakers\nRobert Cudd\, University of California\, Los Angeles\ nEric Daniel Fournier\, University of California\, Los Angeles\nVin Nardiz zi\, University of British Columbia\nSebastián Solarte-Caicedo\, Universi ty of California\, Los Angeles\nMatthew C. Swanson\, University of Califor nia\, Los Angeles\n\n\n\nProgram Schedule\n\n9:00 a.m.\nOpening Remarks\nR obert N. Watson\, University of California\, Los Angeles\, and Tiffany Jo Werth\, University of California\, Davis\n\n9:15 a.m.\nVin Nardizzi\, The University of British Columbia\n“Early Modern Airlines”\n\nGraduate St udent Lightning Talk\n\n9:45 a.m.\nSebastián Solarte-Caicedo\, Ph.D. Cand idate\, Institute of the Environment and Sustainability\, University of Ca lifornia\, Los Angeles\n\n9:55 a.m.\nQ&\;A\n\n10:10 a.m.\nRoundtable wi th Q&\;A: Extracting Strategies for Current California Transitions: Dec ommissioning\, Disadvantaged Communities\, and New Forms of Energy Policy and Expression\nModerator: Robert N. Watson\, University of California\, L os Angeles\n\nRobert Cudd\, California Center for Sustainable Communities\ , Institute of the Environment and Sustainability\, University of Californ ia\, Los Angeles\nEric Daniel Fournier\, California Center for Sustainable Communities\, Institute of the Environment and Sustainability\, Universit y of California\, Los Angeles\nMatthew C. Swanson\, Ph.D. Candidate\, Univ ersity of California\, Los Angeles\n\n11:10 a.m.\nConclusion\n\n\n\nImage: Jan Cossiers\, Prometheus\, oil on 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