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:473@1718.ucla.edu DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250110T093000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250110T173000 DTSTAMP:20250109T184141Z URL:https://1718.ucla.edu/events/energy-transitions/ SUMMARY:Cancelled: Energy Transitions in Long Modernity DESCRIPTION:\n\nUPDATE 1/9/25: Due to the ongoing wildfires in our area and a recent update from UCLA administration curtailing campus operations and cancelling classes today and tomorrow\, we have made the difficult decisi on to cancel the conference. We are working with the organizers on a poten tial remote session later in Winter or Spring Quarter\, and thank you for your understanding.\n\nConference organized by Robert N. Watson (Universi ty of California\, Los Angeles)\, Tiffany Jo Werth (University of Californ ia\, Davis)\, and Todd Borlik (Purdue University)\n\nCo-sponsored by the U CLA CMRS Center for Early Global Studies and the UC Davis Medieval and Ear ly Modern Studies Program\n\n\nThe recent turn to the ‘energy humanities ’ is only beginning to galvanize scholarship on the material and symboli c impact of energy regimes in the long history of modernity. While the 201 7 anthology edited by Imre Szeman and Dominic Boyer provides a handy compe ndium of resources and heralds the field’s arrival\, its table of conten ts consists almost entirely of post-2000 texts and does not include any ma terial written prior to the mid-twentieth century. As this indicates\, res earch in the energy humanities remains focused somewhat myopically on the past seventy-five years\, and often appeals to reductive notions of an Ind ustrial Revolution in the late eighteenth century as the terminus a quo  for any investigation into the topic. But the fact remains that humans hav e excelled at extracting energy from the earth long before the formation o f Standard Oil or Watt's invention of the steam engine. Harnessing the p ower of ocean currents and winds\, to take one example\, allowed for the i nitial voyages that brought Europeans such as Sir Francis Drake to the sho res of California\, or what he called Nova Albion.\n\nCalifornia boasts i tself as a hub for transitioning energy from fossil fuels to renewable sou rces such as wind\, water\, and solar power. Taking this local\, contempor ary perspective as its departure point\, this conference looks to the past and a deep history of energy transitions (and additions) in order to bett er understand how to negotiate this switch. We will convene scholars aroun d the topics of “energy\,” “extraction\,” and “exploitation\,” in the period we are calling “long modernity” (16th–21stcentury). O ur guiding questions are: What are the cultural narratives that surround m oments of energy transitions? Should we speak 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 Engla nd\, particularly at moments of colonial ambition and expansion? This conf erence brings together diverse disciplines to unpack the complex dynamics that accompany energy regime change as expressed by technological developm ent and represented in creative media that span the centuries of long mode rnity and that connect the local to the global\, the past to the present.\ n\nThe local and global impact of harnessing such energy pathways cannot b e overstated. In particular\, this conference will highlight the penumbra of energy grids for its effect on indigenous\, minority\, and vulnerable populations and species. This conference exploration over the long durée of history seeks to understand how an energy transition might conserve\, r ather than ravage\, the environment and species by understanding how energ y infrastructures affect earth and its ecosystems.\n\nSpeakers\nRobert Cud d\, University of California\, Los Angeles\nEric Daniel Fournier\, Univers ity of California\, Los Angeles\nVictoria Googasian\, Georgetown Universit y in Qatar\nUrsula K. Heise\, University of California\, Los Angeles\nGrae me Macdonald\, University of Warwick\nElizabeth Carolyn Miller\, Universit y of California\, Davis\nVin Nardizzi\, University of British Columbia\nDa vid Rapson\, University of California\, Davis\nKirsten Schuhmacher\, Unive rsity of California\, Davis\nSid Shah\, University of California\, Los Ang eles\nSebastián Solarte-Caicedo\, University of California\, Los Angeles\ nMatthew C. Swanson\, University of California\, Los Angeles\n\n\n\nProgra m Schedule\n\n9:00 a.m.\nCoffee and Registration\n\n9:30 a.m.\nDirector’ s Welcome\nCarla Gardina Pestana\, University of California\, Los Angeles\ n\nOpening Remarks\nRobert N. Watson\, University of California\, Los Ange les\, and Tiffany Jo Werth\, University of California\, Davis\n\n10:00 a.m .\nOpening Provocation and Q&\;A\nUrsula K. Heise\, University of Calif ornia\, Los Angeles\n\n10:30 a.m.\nHealth and Stretch Break\n\nSession 1: Historical Energy Futures of the Past: Energy as Force and Expression\nCha ir: Tiffany Jo Werth\, University of California\, Davis\n\n10:40 a.m.\nVin Nardizzi\, The University of British Columbia\n“Early Modern Airlines ”\n\n11:10 a.m.\nElizabeth Carolyn Miller\, University of California\, D avis\n"Energy Transitions at Sea: The Industrial Ocean in Literature and C ulture"\n\n11:40 a.m.\nQ&\;A\n\n12:10 p.m.\nLunch\nDisplay of Clark Lib rary materials in the North Book Room\n\nSession 2: Historical Energy Tran sitions: Energy as Force and Expression\nChair: Todd Borlik\, Purdue Unive rsity\n\n1:30 p.m.\nVictoria Googasian\, Georgetown University in Qatar\n “Energy Labor and Disability in Twentieth-Century U.S. Space Opera”\n\ n2:00 p.m.\nGraeme Macdonald\, University of Warwick\n“The Perpetual Pro blem\, or\, Long Renewability”\n\n2:30 p.m.\nQ&\;A\n\n3:00 p.m.\nCoff ee Break\n\nGraduate Student Lightning Talks\nChair: Tiffany Jo Werth\, Un iversity of California\, Davis\n\n3:20 p.m.\nKirsten Schuhmacher\, Ph.D. C andidate\, Department of English\, University of California\, Davis\n\n3:3 0 p.m.\nSid Shah\, Ph.D. Candidate\, California Center for Sustainable Com munities\, University of California\, Los Angeles\n\n3:40 p.m.\nSebastián Solarte-Caicedo\, Ph.D. Candidate\, Institute of the Environment and Sust ainability\, University of California\, Los Angeles\n\n3:50 p.m.\nQ&\;A \n\n4:15 p.m.\nHealth Break\n\n4:30 p.m.\nRoundtable with Q&\;A: Extrac ting Strategies for Current California Transitions: Decommissioning\, Disa dvantaged Communities\, and New Forms of Energy Policy and Expression\nMod erator: Robert N. Watson\, University of California\, Los Angeles\n\nRober t Cudd\, California Center for Sustainable Communities\, Institute of the Environment and Sustainability\, University of California\, Los Angeles\nE ric Daniel Fournier\, California Center for Sustainable Communities\, Inst itute of the Environment and Sustainability\, University of California\, L os Angeles\nDavid Rapson\, Davis Energy Economics Program (DEEP)\, Univers ity of California\, Davis\nMatthew C. Swanson\, Ph.D. Candidate\, Universi ty of California\, Los Angeles\n\n5:30 p.m.\nReception\n\n\n\nThe conferen ce is free to attend with advance registration and will be held in-person at the Clark Library. Registration will close on Monday\, January 6 at 5:0 0 p.m. Seating is limited at the Clark Library\; walk-in registrants are w elcome as space permits.\nLoading…\n\n\n\nImage: Jan Cossiers\, Promethe us\, oil on canvas\, 1636–1638\, Museo del Prado\, Madrid.  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:20241103T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR