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SUMMARY:The Ends of the Earth: Polar Exploration, Print Culture, and Climate Change 
LOCATION:Online
DESCRIPTION:The Ends of the Earth: Polar Exploration, Print Culture, and Climate Change
  \nThe Ends of the Earth: Polar Exploration, Print Culture, and Climate Cha
 nge is an online symposium which will showcase recent scholarship at the in
 tersection of American literary studies, environmental humanities, and prin
 t culture and serve as a provocation to the audience: what kinds of knowled
 ge are produced at the (geographical, ecological, and possibly even the tem
 poral) ends of the earth? \nFriday, March 26, 2020 \n2:00-4:30 pm Central T
 ime \nZoom webinar \nPlease register in advance to receive a Zoom link at h
 ttps://illinois.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_rOnQCs0tQ_ungrS0VPhvRg (https:/
 /illinois.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_rOnQCs0tQ_ungrS0VPhvRg) \nFree and op
 en to the public. Please drop in and out as your schedule allows, or stay f
 or the whole symposium.  \n  \nSchedule of Events:  \n2:00 pm Central Time-
  Introduction of the speakers and of the polar collections at the Universit
 y of Illinois  \n2:20pm Central Time - “A Humanist in the Northwest Passage
 ,” A talk by Hester Blum, Professor of English at Penn State  \n3:00 pm Cen
 tral Time - “Land of Wondrous Cold: The Victorians in Antarctica.” A talk b
 y Gillen D’Arcy Wood, Langan Professorial Scholar of Environmental Humaniti
 es and Associate Director of iSEE at the University of Illinois at Urbana-C
 hampaign (UIUC) \n3:45pm – 4:30 pm Central Time - Discussion and Q&A wi
 th Hester Blum and Gillen D’Arcy Wood, facilitated by co-organizers Jamie L
 . Jones, Assistant Professor, Department of English, UIUC, and Adam Doskey,
  Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts, UIUC.  \nSpeaker Gillen D’Arcy Wood
  recently published Land of Wondrous Cold: The Race to Discover Antarctica 
 and Unlock the Secrets of Its Ice (Princeton University Press, 2020).  Link
 : https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691172200/land-of-wondrou
 s-cold (https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691172200/land-of-w
 ondrous-cold) \nSpeaker Hester Blum recently published The News at the Ends
  of the Earth: The Print Culture of Polar Exploration (Duke University Pres
 s, 2019). Link: https://www.dukeupress.edu/the-news-at-the-ends-of-the-eart
 h (https://www.dukeupress.edu/the-news-at-the-ends-of-the-earth) \n \nSpons
 ored by the Rare Book & Manuscript Library, UIUC; the Trowbridge Initia
 tive in American Cultures; iSEE (Institute for Sustainability, Energy, and 
 the Environment); and other generous campus sponsors. \nIf you will need di
 sability-related accommodations in order to participate in this program/eve
 nt, please contact Jamie L. Jones at  (mailto:jaljones@illinois.edu)This em
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X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>The Ends of the Earth: Polar Explor
 ation, Print Culture, and Climate Change</strong> </p><p style="text-align:
  justify;">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?&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align: justify;">
 <strong>Friday, March 26, 2020</strong><strong>&nbsp;</strong></p><p style=
 "text-align: justify;"><strong>2:00-4:30 pm Central Time</strong><strong>&n
 bsp;</strong></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Zoom webinar&nbsp;
 </strong></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Please register in adv
 ance to receive a Zoom link at <a href="https://illinois.zoom.us/webinar/re
 gister/WN_rOnQCs0tQ_ungrS0VPhvRg" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://il
 linois.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_rOnQCs0tQ_ungrS0VPhvRg</a>&nbsp;</strong
 ></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Free and open to the public. Please dr
 op in and out as your schedule allows, or stay for the whole symposium. &nb
 sp;</p><p style="text-align: justify;">&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align
 : justify;"><strong>Schedule of Events:</strong>&nbsp; </p><p style="text-a
 lign: justify;"><strong>2:00 pm Central Time</strong>- Introduction of the 
 speakers and of the polar collections at the University of Illinois&nbsp; <
 /p><p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>2:20pm Central Time -</strong> “
 A Humanist in the Northwest Passage,” A talk by Hester Blum, Professor of E
 nglish at Penn State &nbsp;</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>3:00
  pm Central Time -</strong> “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)&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><s
 trong>3:45pm – 4:30 pm Central Time - </strong>Discussion and Q&amp;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. &nbsp;</p><p style="text-align: 
 justify;">Speaker <strong>Gillen D’Arcy Wood</strong> recently published <e
 m>Land of Wondrous Cold: The Race to Discover Antarctica and Unlock the Sec
 rets of Its Ice</em> (Princeton University Press, 2020).&nbsp; Link: <a hre
 f="https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691172200/land-of-wondro
 us-cold" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://press.princeton.edu/books/h
 ardcover/9780691172200/land-of-wondrous-cold</a>&nbsp;</p><p style="text-al
 ign: justify;">Speaker <strong>Hester Blum</strong> recently published <em>
 The News at the Ends of the Earth: The Print Culture of Polar Exploration</
 em> (Duke University Press, 2019). Link: <a href="https://www.dukeupress.ed
 u/the-news-at-the-ends-of-the-earth" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https:/
 /www.dukeupress.edu/the-news-at-the-ends-of-the-earth</a>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp
 ;</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Sponsored by the Rare Book &amp; Manus
 cript Library, UIUC; the Trowbridge Initiative in American Cultures; iSEE (
 Institute for Sustainability, Energy, and the Environment); and other gener
 ous campus sponsors.&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align: justify;">If you will n
 eed disability-related accommodations in order to participate in this progr
 am/event, please contact Jamie L. Jones at <a href="mailto:jaljones@illinoi
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