LOS ANGELES
1-2 December 2023. Converting Natural Resources: Representations, Performances, Narratives.
Converting Natural Resources: Representations, Performances, Narratives
Organized by Elisa Antonietta Daniele, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow, University of California, Los Angeles/University of Bologna, and Bronwen Wilson, University of California, Los Angeles
Co-sponsored by Making Green Worlds, Social Sciences and Humanities Resource Council of Canada, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Grant, and the European Union's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Program
December 1-2, 2023
UCLA Williams Andrew Clark Memorial Library
Program Schedule
Friday, December 1, 2023
9:00 a.m. Introduction
Bronwen Wilson, University of California, Los Angeles, and Elisa Antonietta Daniele, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow, University of California, Los Angeles/University of Bologna
9:15 a.m. Session 1: Consumption
Chair: Bronwen Wilson, University of California, Los Angeles
Marissa Nicosia, The Pennsylvania State University - Abington College
"Recipes for Commodities: Seasoning Natural Resources in Renaissance England"
9:45 a.m. Taylor Clement, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
“’The Profitable Arte’: Commodifying the English Garden”
10:15 a.m. Discussion
10:45 a.m. Coffee Break
11:15 a.m. Session 2: Ligneous Conversions
Chair: Victoria Addona, Université de Montréal
Shannon Kelley, Fairfield University
“Coloniality, Race, and Pine Trees”
11:45 a.m. James Clifton, Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation and Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
“’Welcome to the world of glamorous woods!’: On the Commodification of Wood for the European Market in the 16th to 18th Centuries”
12:15 p.m. Matthew Gin, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
“Producing Pageantry: An Audit of Materials and Processes in a Parisian Warehouse, c. 1753”
12:45 p.m. Discussion
1:15 p.m. Lunch
2:30 p.m. Session 3: Submersion
Chair: Lyle Massey, University of California, Irvine
Bernadette Meyers, New York University
"Coalface: Embodying Air Pollution in Early Modern Performance Culture"
3:00 p.m. Kevin Dawson, University of California, Merced
"Waterscapes and Wet Bodies: Beach Culture in Atlantic Africa and the Diaspora, 1444-1888"
3:30 p.m. Discussion
4:00 p.m. Coffee Break
4:15 p.m. Session 4: Suppression
Chair: Stephanie Schrader, Getty Center
Caroline Fowler, The Clark Art Institute
"Rethinking Erasure in Frans Post's Landscapes"
4:45 p.m. Angela Vanhaelen, McGill University
"Oppositional Modalities of Being: Woman on a Beach in colonial Dutch Brazil"
5:15 p.m. Discussion
6:00 p.m. Conclusion
Saturday, December 2, 2023
9:00 a.m. Session 5: Making Territories
Chair: Elisa Antonietta Daniele, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow, University of California, Los Angeles/University of Bologna
Sonia Cavicchioli, University of Bologna
"'Nos Mutina effinxit': Terracotta and the Shape of Territory in Northern Italy (1400-1800)"
9:30 a.m. Cambra Sklarz, University of California, Riverside
"The Artist in the Community: Art, Materials, and Domestic Labor in Early America"
10:00 a.m. Discussion
10:30 a.m. Coffee Break
11:00 a.m. Session 6: Unearthly Conversions
Chair: Rachel Weiss, University of California, Los Angeles
Carrie Anderson, Middlebury College
"Beads, Adornment, and Commodification in the Dutch Atlantic World"
11:30 a.m. Caroline LaPorte-Burns, McGill University
"Up in a Puff of Smoke: A Salvaged Mother-of-Pearl Snuffbox and the Lessons of Shipwrecks for Early Modern Art
History”
12:00 p.m. Sylvia Tongyan Qui, University of California, Los Angeles,
"Out of the Water, Into the Sky: A Pearl-Inlaid Celestial Globe and the Limits of the Qing Cosmos"
12:30 p.m. Discussion
1:15 p.m. Conclusion
Image Credit:
Karel van Mallery after Jan van der Straet, The Introduction of the Silkworm, engraving, c. 1595.
https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en (public domain)
