Sea Sense: Blue Humanities and the Early Modern Imaginary
Department: Visual Studies
Date and Time: April 28, 2021 - May 2, 2021 | 8:00 AM-8:00 AMEvent Location: Virtual Conference
Event Details
a conference organized by the UCI Center for Early Cultures (Director, Lyle Massey) and the New Swan Shakespeare Center (Director, Julia Lupton) begins tomorrow, April 29 and goes through May 1. Sea Sense focuses on the narrative and representational aspects of early modern land/sea distinctions and the environmental concerns these distinctions foreground. The conference will explore the allegorical and rhetorical role oceans play in early modern conceptions of environment, and the limits and possibilities that oceans present for thinking ecocritically in a deep historical context. Events include a round table with Kevin Dawson on his book, Undercurrents of Power: Aquatic Culture in the African Diaspora (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018), a panel with Marisa Bass, Anne Goldgar, Hanneke Grootenboer and Claudia Swan devoted to their soon-to-be-published book, Conchophilia, keynote lectures by Steve Mentz and Jeffrey Cohen and Julian Yates, and a grad student mini conference jointly organized by UCI Visual Studies and UCLA art history graduate students. Visit this site to see the program, speaker bios and rsvp to get the conference link: https://sites.uci.edu/seasense/https://sites.uci.edu/seasense/