The Ends of the Earth: Polar Explor ation, Print Culture, and Climate Change
The Ends of the Earth: Polar Exploration, Print Culture, and Cli mate Change is an online symposium which will showcase recent scholarship a t the intersection of American literary studies, environmental humanities, and print culture and serve as a provocation to the audience: what kinds of knowledge are produced at the (geographical, ecological, and possibly even the temporal) ends of the earth?
Friday, March 26, 2020
2:00-4:30 pm Central Time&n bsp;
Zoom webinar
Please register in adv ance to receive a Zoom link at https://il linois.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_rOnQCs0tQ_ungrS0VPhvRg
Free and open to the public. Please dr op in and out as your schedule allows, or stay for the whole symposium. &nb sp;
Schedule of Events:
2:00 pm Central Time- Introduction of the speakers and of the polar collections at the University of Illinois < /p>
2:20pm Central Time - “ A Humanist in the Northwest Passage,” A talk by Hester Blum, Professor of E nglish at Penn State
3:00 pm Central Time - “Land of Wondrous Cold: The Victorians in Antar ctica.” A talk by Gillen D’Arcy Wood, Langan Professorial Scholar of Enviro nmental Humanities and Associate Director of iSEE at the University of Illi nois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
3:45pm – 4:30 pm Central Time - Discussion and Q&A with
Hester Blum and Gillen D’Arcy Wood, facilitated by co-organizers Jamie L. J
ones, Assistant Professor, Department of English, UIUC, and Adam Doskey, Cu
rator of Rare Books and Manuscripts, UIUC.
Speaker Gillen D’Arcy Wood recently published
Speaker Hester Blum recently published The News at the Ends of the Earth: The Print Culture of Polar Exploration (Duke University Press, 2019). Link: https:/ /www.dukeupress.edu/the-news-at-the-ends-of-the-earth
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Sponsored by the Rare Book & Manus cript Library, UIUC; the Trowbridge Initiative in American Cultures; iSEE ( Institute for Sustainability, Energy, and the Environment); and other gener ous campus sponsors.
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