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SUMMARY:Human/Being\, 1400-1800\, Conference 1: Human/Plant
DESCRIPTION:Organized by Javier Patiño Loira (University of California\, Los Angeles) and David P. Bardeen (Los Angeles County Museum of Art) \nThis conference is part of the 2026-27 Core Program\, a year-long series of three conferences – Human/Plant\, Human/Animal\, and Human/Machine – that invite participants from across the humanistic disciplines (including history\, art history\, history of science\, literature\, philosophy\, religious history\, and ecocriticism) to explore how early moderns (1400-1800) sought to define and understand themselves through their relationships with non-human life forms\, entities and systems. The rise of generative models and autonomous systems has provoked intense anxieties about human exceptionalism\, posing the deceptively simple question: What does it mean to be human? But “the human” has never been a stable category\, particularly during the early modern period\, when artists\, writers and thinkers grappled with the slippery boundaries between human and non-human agencies. \nThe first conference\, Human/Plant\, considers the human relationship to the vegetal world. During the early modern period\, trees and plants served as metaphors and models for thinking through human affairs\, while philosophers and theologians debated the nature of the vegetative soul and the limits of plant sentience and responsiveness to the surrounding world. Furthermore\, new technologies (the microscope)\, practices (grafting)\, disciplines (comparative anatomy)\, modes of representation (botanical drawings) and ideas (the mechanization of plant life) yielded transformative insights and new questions about plant behavior and life cycles and how they should be understood. Contributors will consider how the shifting perceptions of vegetal life challenged established hierarchies\, redefined the boundaries between species—including what is intrinsically human and what is not—and informed new understandings of ecological connectedness. For purposes of the session\, vegetal life is defined broadly to include agencies that have not always fit neatly within the plant/animal divide\, including fungi\, lichens and mosses\, corals\, parasites and plant-like growths\, and mineral-vegetal hybrids. \n\nSpeakers \nFabrizio Baldassarri\, University of Roma Tre\nNatasha Heller\, University of Virginia\nJoela Jacobs\, University of Arizona\nNicole LaBouff\, Los Angeles County Museum of Art\nRong Lin\, University of Illinois\, Chicago\nAnthony J. Meyer\, NYU Institute of Fine Arts\nAnca-Delia Moldovan\, University of Warwick\nFabien Montcher\, Saint Louis University\nElizabeth Petcu\, University of Edinburgh \n\nThis event is free to attend with advance registration and will be held in-person at the Clark Library. Seating is limited. Walk-in registrants are welcome as space permits. The registration form will be posted here approximately one month in advance of the program. \n\nImage credit: Tacuinum sanitatis\, Österreiche Nationalbibliothek\, call number Cod. Ser. n. 2644\, (fol. 40r).
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LOCATION:UCLA William Andrews Clark Memorial Library\, 2520 Cimarron Street\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90018\, United States
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SUMMARY:Cook-Along with the Clark: An Online Culinary Experience
DESCRIPTION:Julia Rhoton\, Chef Instructor and Culinary Arts Coordinator\, UCLA \nDid you know that the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library houses an extensive collection of cookbooks\, handwritten recipe collections\, and treatises on food from the 1650s to the 1950s? As we celebrate the Clark Library’s centennial during the 2026-27 academic year and showcase the many facets of its collections\, join us as we cook along with Chef Julia Rhoton and learn how to create a recipe from the 1927 Southern California Home Economics Association pamphlet “Luncheon\, Tea and Party Suggestions.” \nGuests who register in advance will receive a detailed shopping list and a step-by-step recipe in order to cook along with Chef Julia Rhoton from the UCLA Teaching Kitchen. This hour-long virtual experience will allow participants to follow along in their own kitchens\, learning to create a recipe that was printed one hundred years ago. Chef Julia will be joined in her campus kitchen with a few special guests\, and together with everyone at home\, participants will learn how recipes\, cookbooks\, and culinary education have evolved over the years\, all while creating a delicious recipe from the time the Clark Library was founded. Participants should be prepared to follow along on a personal device like a laptop or tablet that can be set up somewhere out of the way\, but still visible\, in their kitchens. \nChef Julia Rhoton is a chef instructor and Culinary Arts Coordinator at UCLA. She leads the Teaching Kitchen Collaborative at UCLA\, an interactive food education hub that teaches students culinary and nutrition skills. Chef Julia trained at Le Cordon Bleu California School of Culinary Arts and has worked in catering and baking in Los Angeles for the last twenty-two years. She received her degree in elementary education in 2018. She has been helping to instruct and manage the UCLA Teaching Kitchen programs since 2019\, which have included workshops that support nutrition education for David Geffen School of Medicine students and UCLA Nursing students\, classes in collaboration with the Food Studies Minor and Graduate Food Studies Certificate programs\, outreach services in support of the Community Programs Office\, and extracurricular activities for students through Recreation. \n\nThis event is free to attend with advance registration and will take place via Zoom. The registration form will be posted here approximately one month in advance of the program. \n\nImage: On the left: Chef Julia Rhoton is the culinary arts coordinator of the UCLA Teaching Kitchen. Photo by Diana Koenigsber. On the right: California Home Economics Association\, Southern Section. Luncheon\, Tea and Party Suggestions. Los Angeles: [California Home Economics Association\, Southern Section]\, 1927. Clark Library Press Collection; Press coll. Browne 081.
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LOCATION:Online (details emailed to attendees)
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