BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//UCLA Department of English - ECPv6.17.4.1//NONSGML v1.0//EN
CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
METHOD:PUBLISH
X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://english.ucla.edu
X-WR-CALDESC:Events for UCLA Department of English
REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H
X-Robots-Tag:noindex
X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H
BEGIN:VTIMEZONE
TZID:America/Los_Angeles
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0800
TZOFFSETTO:-0700
TZNAME:PDT
DTSTART:20190310T100000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0700
TZOFFSETTO:-0800
TZNAME:PST
DTSTART:20191103T090000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0800
TZOFFSETTO:-0700
TZNAME:PDT
DTSTART:20200308T100000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0700
TZOFFSETTO:-0800
TZNAME:PST
DTSTART:20201101T090000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0800
TZOFFSETTO:-0700
TZNAME:PDT
DTSTART:20210314T100000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0700
TZOFFSETTO:-0800
TZNAME:PST
DTSTART:20211107T090000
END:STANDARD
END:VTIMEZONE
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200116T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200116T150000
DTSTAMP:20260824T230444Z
CREATED:20260824T230444Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260824T230444Z
UID:10000147-1579179600-1579186800@english.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:"Undigested Sentiment in John Keats's 'Isabella; Or\, The Pot of Basil'."
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/undigested-sentiment-in-john-keatss-isabella-or-the-pot-of-basil/
LOCATION:CA
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200116T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200116T180000
DTSTAMP:20260824T230420Z
CREATED:20260824T230420Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260824T230420Z
UID:10000143-1579190400-1579197600@english.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:“Almost Beaver’s Brothers”: Reason and Reciprocity in Castor Territory. A Job Talk
DESCRIPTION:This paper close reads seventeenth-century European and Wabanaki stories about human-beaver relations in order to revise our understanding of the confrontation of cultures that colonization comprised. This paper responds to recent work in early American studies at the intersection of the history of science and reason on one hand\, and\, on the other\, research on the cultures of affection or “emotional communities” of English planters and creoles.
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/almost-beavers-brothers-reason-and-reciprocity-in-castor-territory-a-job-talk/
LOCATION:CA
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200116T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200116T190000
DTSTAMP:20260824T230243Z
CREATED:20260824T230243Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260824T230243Z
UID:10000139-1579194000-1579201200@english.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Hydrophilic Archives: Early Handmade Paper in Unstable Environments
DESCRIPTION:Joshua Calhoun (Associate Professor of English\, University of Wisconsin\, Madison) \nClick here to register to attend. \nPaper loves water\, but the hydrophilic property of paper is both a feature and a bug: it cannot be created without water\, and it can be easily destroyed by water. This talk explores the revolutionary\, vulnerable qualities of early handmade paper and considers the ecological resources we use to preserve the documentary evidence we have received from the past on thin pliable\, handcrafted leaves of organic matter. \n“Hydrophilic Archives” takes up an inconvenient truth: there is an inverse correlation between book preservation strategies and environmental stewardship. The preservation of records has a significant environmental cost\, and that cost is expected to rise precipitously as resources become scarcer. What\, then\, is the future of archival libraries in a changing climate\, and how do we responsibly and sustainably support the preservation of cultural heritages? \nProfessor Calhoun focuses on the history of handmade paper\, in his forthcoming book\, The Nature of the Page\,  which explores the ecopoetic interplay between literary ideas and the physical forms they are made to take as sixteenth- and seventeenth-century texts. Made from recycled clothes\, slaughtered animals\, and felled trees\, poetic texts in Renaissance England were filled with visible traces of ecological matter. Calhoun argues that the flora\, fauna\, and mineralia from which a Renaissance text—or a clay tablet\, or a birch bark map\, or an iPhone—is made are legible\, significant elements of its poetic form. \nScholarship on the history of media has tended to imagine humans as the points of textual origination\, as if the materials used to make paper\, to make ink\, to make printing type\, and so on\, simply existed in abundance\, waiting to be harvested. In reality\, ecological availability and scarcity make certain kinds of human records possible; at the moment those possibilities are realized and integrated into textual forms\, textual corruption and disintegration begins. Texts\, in other words\, are and arise from within unique ecosystems. The Nature of the Page reveals a more ecologically deterministic\, but also a more poetic past and future for those endlessly intriguing sites of humanistic and environmental negotiation we call “texts.” \nThe Deaths of Books: Facing the Mortality of Texts is the tentative title for the book he is currently researching. In this work\, he puts the materiality of texts into conversation with the mortality of texts by thinking about how books die. The work extends the “ecology of texts” approach he advocates in The Nature of the Page\, but pushes his new research into deeper conversations with environmental science and conservation practices by asking questions such as: What is the environmental cost of historical preservation? How much preservation is enough? Is digitization really more environmentally friendly than stabilizing aged texts in climate controlled vaults? Why is it common to allow destructive analysis on samples from historical buildings and historical bones\, but not from historical books? \nClick here to register to attend. \nNo fee. Limited seating. Self-pay parking in lots 2\, 3\, and 4. Parking information at\nParking information at main.transportation.ucla.edu/campus-parking/visitors
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/hydrophilic-archives-early-handmade-paper-in-unstable-environments/
LOCATION:CA
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR