From Sea to Sky: Early Modern Horizons

Image: Tom Killion, Tennessee Cove from Wolf Ridge, 1977, in Fortress Marin : An Aesthetic and Historical Description of the Coastal Fortifications of Southern Marin County (Santa Cruz, Quail Press, 1977)

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Organized by Vin Nardizzi, The University of British Columbia, and Bronwen Wilson, University of California, Los Angeles. Co-sponsored by the UCLA Center for 17th- and 18th-Century Studies and the University of California Humanities Research Institute.

This symposium is one outcome of a UBC and UCLA Collaborative Research Mobility Award. Its long-time collaborators, Dr. Vin Nardizzi (English, UBC) and Dr. Bronwen Wilson (Art History, UCLA), are key researchers in the international collaborative project “Earth, Sea, Sky”. Wilson is also one of three principal investigators in the UCHRI project: On the sea and coastal ecologies: early modern pasts and uncertain futures. We are grateful to our collaborators and these institutions for their support.

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Chair: Vin Nardizzi is Associate Professor in the Department of English Language and Literatures at UBC. With Tiffany Jo Werth, he recently edited Premodern Ecologies in the Modern Literary Imagination (Toronto 2019), and he is completing a book manuscript called “Marvellous Vegetables: Plants and Poetry in the English Renaissance.”

Moderator: Laura Hutchingame, Graduate Student, Art History, UCLA

Robert N. Watson is Distinguished Professor of English at UCLA. He is the author of Back to Nature: The Green and the Real in the Late Renaissance (2006). His most recent monograph, 2019, is Cultural Evolution and its Discontents: Cognitive Overload, Parasitic Cultures, and the Humanistic Cure.

Ayasha Guerin is Assistant Professor of Black Diaspora Studies, Department of English, UBC. Her presentation springs from a book project, which argues that the waterfront has served the frontlines of crisis for racialized communities since European colonization and trans-Atlantic slave trade. A related article, “Shared Routes of Mammalian Kinship: Race and Migration in Long Island Whaling Diasporas,” is forthcoming in Island Studies Journal.

Joseph Monteyne is Associate Professor, History of Art, at UBC. His forthcoming book is Media Critique in the Age of Gillray: Scratches, Scraps, and Spectres (University of Toronto Press, late 2021, early 2022).

Bronwen Wilson teaches art history at UCLA where she is Director of the Center for 17th- and 18th Studies and the Clark Library. Her new book project, Otherworldly Natures: the subterranean imminence of stone, probes artistic and ecological engagement with quarries, riverbeds, and lithic formations from the middle of the fifteenth century to the beginning of the seventeenth.

 

Image credit: Tom Killion, Tennessee Cove from Wolf Ridge, 1977, in Fortress Marin : An Aesthetic and Historical Description of the Coastal Fortifications of Southern Marin County (Santa Cruz, Quail Press, 1977)

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