Conference Schedule
Fri., Nov. 1
9 a.m. | Registration and Coffee
9:45 a.m. | Welcome
- Susan Juster (The Huntington), Karla Nielsen (The Huntington), Melinda McCurdy (The Huntington), Kate Flint (USC)
10 a.m. | Session 1: Imperial Ecologies
- Moderator: Ann Garascia (Cal State San Bernardino)
Sarah Leonard (Yale Center for British Art)
“Hay Meadow and Cotton Field: William Morris’s Insular and Global Ecologies”
Lindsay Wells (UCLA)
“Vegetal Extraction: Plant Hunting and Bioprospecting in Nineteenth-Century British Visual Culture”
Kimia Shahi (USC)
“Tidal Media on the Pacific Coast”
Noon | Lunch
1 p.m. | Session 2: Envisioning Extraction
- Moderator: Shannon Vittoria (Los Angeles County Museum of Art)
- Elizabeth Miller (UC Davis)
“The Intimate Welding of Their Later History: Steamships, Extractivism, and the Nineteenth Century’s Industrial Past”
Jennifer Raab (Yale University)
“Golden Light and Shadow Archives”
Gustave Lester (KTH Royal Institute of Technology)
“Geology, Dispossession, and the Origins of U.S. Industrial Power”
3 p.m. | Break
3:15 p.m. | Session 3: Narrating the Anthropocene
- Moderator: Aaron Matz (Scripps College)
- Padma Rangarajan (UC Riverside)
“Riparian Poetics, Colonial Topographies”
Lisa Paravisini-Gebert (Vassar College)
“The Dying Magdalena River: From Frederic Church to Carolina Caycedo”
Nathan Hensley (Georgetown University)
“The Women on the Stairs: Gesture, Improvisation, Possibility”
Sat., Nov. 2
9:30 a.m. | Registration and Coffee
10 a.m. | Session 4: Empiricism, Art, and Nature
- Moderator: Julia Lum (Scripps College)
- Devin Griffiths (USC)
“Alice Protests: The Afterlives of Wonderland in Environmental Critique”
Jesse Oak Taylor (University of Washington)
“Scaling the Himalaya with Joseph Hooker: Climate, Altitude, and the Earth System”
Eleanor Jones Harvey (Smithsonian Institution)
“When Art Informs Climate Science: The Acute Eyes of 19th-Century American Landscape Painters”
Noon | Lunch
1 p.m. | Roundtable: Engaging the Public on the Climate Crisis
Moderator: Stevie Ruiz (Cal State Northridge)
Suzanne Pierre (Critical Ecology Lab)
Mark Nesbitt (Kew Gardens)
Rebecca Lowery (MOCA, Los Angeles)
2:30 p.m. | Concluding Remarks
3 p.m. | Break and Gallery Tour of “Storm Cloud: Picturing the Origins of Our Climate Crisis”
For questions about this event, please contact researchconference@huntington.org or 626-405-3432.
