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:411@1718.ucla.edu DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230211T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230211T124500 DTSTAMP:20230202T000625Z URL:https://1718.ucla.edu/events/forgotten-canopy-c2d2/ SUMMARY:The Forgotten Canopy: Ecology\, Ephemeral Architecture\, and Imperi alism in the Caribbean\, South American\, and Transatlantic Worlds Confere nce 2: Ephemeral Architecture - [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.\n\n\n\n \n\nThis conference is free of charge. It will be held in person at the Cl ark\, and livestreamed on the Center’s YouTube Channel. To attend the co nference in person\, you must reserve your space by submitting the booking form at the bottom of this page. Bookings open Thrusday January 12\, 2023 and close Monday\, February 6\, 2023 at 5:00 p.m. No registration is need ed to watch the livestream.\n\n\n\nFace masks are not required but are str ongly recommended at all indoor campus events.\n\n\n\nThe 2022-23 Core Pro gram hosted by the UCLA Center for 17th- &\; 18th-Century Studies and W illiam Andrews Clark Memorial Library will convene scholars around the top ics of “Ecology\,” “Ephemeral Architecture\,” and “Imperialism ” in the early modern (16th–19th-century) world. The circum-Caribbean is our starting point\; specifically\, we use this term to refer to the de ep connections between the peoples and places of the Caribbean and South A merica\, along with parts of North America. Due to national politics\, lan guage barriers\, and scholarly divisions that have their roots in the Euro pean colonization of the Americas\, the long and complex history of exchan ge among these regions and peoples have been greatly understudied. In trut h\, this history of entanglement across water and land stretches back mill ennia\, resulting in a rich and diverse built environment that is deeply t ied to ecological change. This dynamic did not end with the invasion of 14 92\, but rather continued to expand and accelerate when people\, plants\, and empires came from across the Atlantic. Using ephemeral architecture\, in particular the complex and exquisite creation of thatch roofs as the le ading thread in these tapestries of exchange\, this series of conferences highlight the profound ways in which environmental practices\, botanical k nowledge\, technological development\, architectural innovation\, and crea tive expression were deeply tied across these distinct regions and peoples \, and shaped by imperial actions. This conference series brings an unusua lly diverse number of disciplines together in order to unpack these comple x dynamics\, which challenge how we understand the built environment\, the early modern Atlantic World\, and the intersections between the local and the global.\n\nHaving explored the dynamic conditions\, complexities\, an d perspectives of ecology in the first gathering\, this second conference will bring into focus the ways in which distinct peoples\, regions\, and s tates used their local ecology to design\, shape\, and transform their bui lt environments - often in the face of threats from imperial states. By sh ining a critical light on the fascinating but fleeting (and often overlook ed) ephemeral architecture\, in particular\, thatch roofs\, we will begin to see how ecologies and architectures became deeply entangled\, such as i n the form of technological\, cultural\, and environmental knowledge as we ll as artistic innovation. Scholars from multiple disciplines along with b uilders will come together to share and discuss a strikingly diverse and d ynamic corpus from across the Americas and West Africa. These scholars wil l explore these “forgotten canopies” in all their material complexitie s\, including the larger structures (built of out of wood\, adobe\, wattle and daub\, brick\, and stone)\, spaces (single\, multi-room\, rectangular \, round\, etc.)\, functions (political\, religious\, and domestic) and en vironments (tropical island\, dry deserts\, highland mountain\, etc.\, as well as urban and rural landscapes) of which they were a part.\n\nSpeakers \n\nDenise Y. Arnold\, University College London\nBrenner Billy\, Choctaw Cultural Center\nMark Dike DeLancey\, DePaul University\nJorge Baracutei E stevez\, Director of Higuayagua Taíno of the Caribbean\nSantiago Giraldo\ , Global Heritage Fund\nKenneth G. Kelly\, Syracuse University and Univers ity of Southern Carolina\nLouis Nelson\, University of Virginia\nDavid B. Sadighian\, Harvard University\nShannon Speed\, University of California\, Los Angeles\nBrendan J. M. Weaver\, University of North Carolina Wilmingt on\n\n\n\nSaturday\, February 11\, 2023\n\n9:30 a.m.\nMorning Coffee and R egistration\n\n10:00 a.m.\nStella Nair\, University of California\, Los An geles\nPaul Niell\, Florida State University\nWelcome (Back)\n\n10:15 a.m. \nSession 3 The Making of Ephemeralities\nModerator: Michael Osman\, Univ ersity of California\, Los Angeles  \n\nKenneth G. Kelly\, Syracuse Univ ersity and University of Southern California\n“Creating Kaz Kreole: A Mu ltisited Archaeology of Ephemeral Architecture in Diverse Caribbean Contex ts”\n\n10:45 a.m.       \nDavid B. Sadighian\, Harvard University\n "Rebuilding Palmares: Fugitive Architecture and its Afterlives”\n\n11:15 a.m.\nCoffee Break\n\n11:30 a.m.\nJorge Baracutei Estevez\, Higuayagua: T aíno of the Caribbean\n“Return of the Bohio: Continuing Caribbean Indig eneity”\n\n12:00 p.m.\nMorning Session Discussion (Q&\;A)\n\n12:45 p. m.\nConference portion of program concludes\n\nAfternoon Workshop at Kuruv ungna Sacred Springs: https://theforgottencanopy.create.fsu.edu/workshop-i i/\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://1718.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/09 /2BMB3NH-_website.jpg CATEGORIES:Conferences,Core Program 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:20221106T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR