The Ends of the Earth: Polar Exploration, Print Culture, and Climate Change is a half-day symposium which will showcase recent scholarship at 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? 2pm - Introduction 2:30pm - Talk by Gillen D'Arcy Wood (UIUC, English) 3:30pm - Talk by Hester Blum (Penn State, English) 4:30pm - Roundtable Discussion 5:15-6:30 - Reception and "show-and-tell" of RBML professor/ curator Adam Doskey