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:410@1718.ucla.edu DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221105T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221105T124500 DTSTAMP:20221025T144547Z URL:https://1718.ucla.edu/events/forgotten-canopy-c1d2/ SUMMARY:The Forgotten Canopy: Ecology\, Ephemeral Architecture\, and Imperi alism in the Caribbean\, South American\, and Transatlantic Worlds Confere nce 1: Ecology [Day 2] DESCRIPTION:–conference organized by Stella Nair (University of Californi a\, Los Angeles) and Paul Niell (Florida State University)\n\nThis project is made possible through support from the Terra Foundation for American A rt\, and is co-sponsored by the UCLA American Indian Studies Center and UC LA Latin American Institute.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDay 2 held at UCLA Mildred E. Mathias Botanical Garden\n\n\n\nThis conference is free of charge. It will be held in person and livestreamed on the Center’s YouTube Channel. To attend the conference in person\, you must reserve your space by submittin g the booking form at the bottom of this page. Bookings open on Thursday\, October 6\, 2022 and close on Monday\, October 31\, 2022 at 5:00 p.m. No registration is needed to watch the livestream.\n\nAll in-person attendees must adhere to the UCLA COVID-19 Protocol for Organized Events. This prot ocol will be in effect until further notice and adjusted as needed to resp ond to evolving public health conditions.\n\nFace masks: It is strongly r ecommended that all attendees at indoor campus events wear a highly protec tive mask (i.e. surgical\, N95\, KN95\, or KP94).\n\nRequirements for even t entry: All  attendees must present  proof  of  COVID-19  vaccinati on  or proof  of  negative  COVID-19 test per Los Angeles County Depar tment of Public Health guidelines.\n\n\n\nThe 2022-23 Core Program hosted by the UCLA Center for 17th- &\; 18th-Century Studies and William Andre ws Clark Memorial Library will convene scholars around the topics of “Ec ology\,” “Ephemeral Architecture\,” and “Imperialism” in the ear ly modern (16th–19th-century) world. The circum-Caribbean is our startin g point\; specifically\, we use this term to refer to the deep connections between the peoples and places of the Caribbean and South America\, along with parts of North America. Due to national politics\, language barriers \, and scholarly divisions that have their roots in the European colonizat ion of the Americas\, the long and complex history of exchange among these regions and peoples have been greatly understudied. In truth\, this histo ry of entanglement across water and land stretches back millennia\, result ing in a rich and diverse built environment that is deeply tied to ecologi cal change. This dynamic did not end with the invasion of 1492\, but rathe r continued to expand and accelerate when people\, plants\, and empires ca me from across the Atlantic. Using ephemeral architecture\, in particular the complex and exquisite creation of thatch roofs as the leading thread i n these tapestries of exchange\, this series of conferences highlight the profound ways in which environmental practices\, botanical knowledge\, tec hnological development\, architectural innovation\, and creative expressio n were deeply tied across these distinct regions and peoples\, and shaped by imperial actions. This conference series brings an unusually diverse nu mber of disciplines together in order to unpack these complex dynamics\, w hich challenge how we understand the built environment\, the early modern Atlantic World\, and the intersections between the local and the global.\n \nEphemeral architecture has been long overlooked by scholars\, with few e xceptions\, because of its relatively short life span\, the lack of extant structures\, and most importantly\, the need to understand its complex ec ological context.  Our first conference\, “Ecology\,” seeks to addres s this lacuna by exploring the complex and dynamic ecologies from which ep hemeral architecture arises in the Indigenous circum-Caribbean and its tra nsformation with the arrival of Africans and Europeans (with their flora\, fauna and technologies). Scholars from a diversity of disciplines and cou ntries are brought together to explore and challenge a variety of perspect ives and theoretical approaches to local and cross regional ecologies and histories\, from unique plants and cultural knowledge to complex ecosystem s and critical human interventions. In the case of thatched roofs\, which often drew upon short-lived grasses and had to be remade regularly\, even slight ecological changes would have had profound impacts. It is precisely the material condition of this ephemeral architecture that ties its exist ence to even subtle changes in local ecologies\, while also revealing over looked histories and silenced voices of the Early Modern world.\n\nSpeaker s\n\nMichael D. Carrasco\, Florida State University\nMónica Domínguez To rres\, University of Delaware\nJustin Dunnavant\, University of California \, Los Angeles\nChristine Hastorf\, University of California\, Berkeley\nC orinne L. Hofman\, Leiden University &\; Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV)\nIrvince Nanichi Auguiste\, President of the Caribbean Amerindian Development Organization\nEduardo G . Neves\, University of São Paulo\nJonah Rowen\, Ahmanson-Getty Postdocto ral Fellow\nGlenn H. Shepard Jr.\, Goeldi Museum\, Belém do Pará\, Brazi l\nPamela Villaseñor (Fernandeño Tataviam)\, Pukúu Cultural Community S ervices\n\n\n\nImage: View of a hut\, and a dance of the Yuracares Indians \, Bolivia. From Voyage dans l’Amérique Méridionale\, vol. 3. Paris\, 1835–1847.\n\n\n\nProgram\n\nSaturday\, Nov. 5\, 2022\n\nUCLA Mildred E. Mathias Botanical Garden\n\n9:30 a.m. Morning Coffee and Registration\n\n 10:00 a.m.\nStella Nair and Paul Niell\, University of California\, Los An geles/ Florida State University\nOpening Remarks\n\n10:15 a.m.\nSession 3: Landscapes and Settlements\nModerator: Robin Lauren Derby\, University of California\, Los Angeles\n\nMichael D. Carrasco\, Florida State Universit y\n“The Enduring Maya Home”\n\n10:45 a.m.\nMónica Domínguez Torres\, University of Delaware\n“Between rancherías and fortalezas: Empire\, E xtractivism\, and Ecology at the Pearling Centers of the Early Americas” \n\n11:15 a.m.\nCoffee Break\n\n11:30 a.m.\nCorinne L. Hofman\, Leiden Uni versity &\; Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbea n Studies (KITLV) and Irvince Nanichi Auguiste\, Caribbean Amerindian Deve lopment Agency\n“Grounding the Táboüi: Recognizing Traditional Knowled ge Practices Embedded in the Life Histories of the Caribbean’s Islandsca pes of Dwelling”\n\n12:00 p.m.\nMorning Session Discussion\n\n12:45 p.m. \nConference portion of program concludes\n\n2:00–6:00 p.m.\nAfternoon W orkshop\nFor more information: https://theforgottencanopy.create.fsu.edu/w orkshop-i/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://1718.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/09 /2BMB3NH-_website.jpg CATEGORIES:Conferences,Core Program END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20220313T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR