Oil + Water: The Case of Santa Barbara and Southern California

CONFERENCE: Oil + Water: The Case of Santa Barbara and Southern California

April 8 – 10, 2010
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
http://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/oil-water-socal/

This event is FREE and open to the public. No reservations are necessary.

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This conference will explore the ways in which oil and water have created and transformed the history and culture of Santa Barbara and Southern California. Topics will include the Santa Barbara oil spill; the impact of oil on Hollywood; agriculture and marine life; the Owens River Valley; the Salton Sea; cars and car culture; and environmental histories and their lessons.

Sponsored by the IHC’s Oil + Water series, the UC California Studies Consortium, and the Community Environmental Council.

Thursday, April 8

5:00 PM

KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Oil Runs Through It: Power, Publics, and the Role of Place
Harvey Molotch (Social & Cultural Analysis, NYU)

click here for the audio version of Oil Runs Through It: Power, Publics, and the Role of Place

Friday, April 9

8:30 AM	Coffee
9:00 AM	Introduction Ann Bermingham (Acting Director, Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, UCSB)
9:15 AM	PANEL: Oil, Water, and Activism: The Case of Santa Barbara Linda Krop (Chief Council, Environmental Defense Center and Environmental Studies, UCSB) The Environmental Politics of Off Shore Drilling click here for the audio version of The Environmental Politics of Off Shore Drilling Teresa Sabol Spezio (History, UC Davis) Most Congressmen Care Little: The Role of the Santa Barbara Oil Spill in Changing Federal Environmental Laws Eric Smith (Political Science, UCSB) What the California Public Thinks About Off Shore Oil Development click here for the audio version of What the California Public Thinks About Off Shore Oil Development
11:00 AM	KEYNOTE ADDRESS: *Whales, Noisemakers, and Noise* Jim Nollman (Artist & Founder of Interspecies.com) click here for the audio version of Whales, Noisemakers, and Noise
12:15 PM	Lunch
1:30 PM	PANEL: Oil+Water: The Case of Southern California David Maisel (Photographer & Multimedia Artist) The Lake Project Lola Sheppard (InfraNet Lab, Toronto, Ontario) Farming the Salton Sea click here for the audio version of Farming the Salton Sea Andrew Fitzpatrick (Interpretive Specialist, Ocotillo Wells) Ocotillo Wells: California Oil History Encapsulated click here for the audio version of Ocotillo Wells: California Oil History Encapsulated Kenneth Rogers, Caleb Waldorf and Bill Kelley, Jr. (Third Rail Group) Slow Activism, Dialogical Practice and Environmental Remediation at the Inglewood Oil Fields click here for the audio version of Slow Activism, Dialogical Practice and Environmental Remediation at the Inglewood Oil Fields
3:00 PM	KEYNOTE ADDRESS: After Oil!: Petroleum, Media, and the California Experiment Stephanie LeMenager (English, UCSB)
4:00 PM	PANEL: The Culture of Oil Vanessa Osborne (English, USC) Celluloid and Oil: Early Hollywood and the Oil Industry in Upton Sinclair’s Oil! click here for the audio version of Celluloid and Oil: Early Hollywood and the Oil Industry in Upton Sinclair’s Oil! Jean-Paul deGuzman (History, UCLA) At the Car Wash! Culture and Labor in the City of Angels Desiree D’Alessandro and Diran Lyons (video artists) World Water Shortage vs Golf Consumption and Jake Gyllenhaal Challenges the Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize
5:30 PM	Reception

Saturday, April 10

9:00 AM	Coffee
9:15 AM	ROUNDTABLE: Oil and Water in the Santa Barbara County Agrifood System David A. Cleveland (Environmental Studies, UCSB) and UCSB undergraduate students Ingrid R. Avison, Caitlin Brimm, Heidi Diaz, Sydney E. Hollingshead, Dominique C. Liuzzi, Nora M. Muller, Corie N. Radka, Tyler D. Watson, and Hannah Wright.
10:45 AM	KEYNOTE ADDRESS: *Near Goleta But Closer: An Unnatural History* Harry Reese (Art, UCSB)
12:00 PM	Lunch
1:30 PM	PANEL: *Histories of an Unnatural History* Karen Piper (Comparative Literature, Carnegie Mellon University) Owens Lake: California’s Albatross click here for the audio version of Owens Lake: California’s Albatross Eliza Martin (History, UC Santa Cruz) Making Rain, Creating Floods: Expertise and the Manufacturing of Disaster in San Diego’s Flood of 1916 click here for the audio version of Making Rain, Creating Floods: Expertise and the Manufacturing of Disaster in San Diego’s Flood of 1916 David Zetland, (Agriculture and Resource Economics, UC Berkeley) Joseph Jensen and the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California click here for the audio version of Joseph Jensen and the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California Michael R. Adamson (History, CSU Sacramento) Oil Booms and Boosterism: Local Elites, Outside Companies, and the Growth of Ventura California click here for the audio version of Oil Booms and Boosterism: Local Elites, Outside Companies, and the Growth of Ventura California

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