This lecture is part of Mediatic Empire: Critical Inquiries into Environment, Technology, and Media Cultures, a five-part public lecture series organized by UBC’s Department of English Language & Literatures and Green College. View the full series schedule.
Presenter
Dr. Yuriko Furuhata
Cecil H. and Ida Green Visiting Professor, Green College; Professor and Chair of the Department of East Asian Studies, McGill University
Yuriko Furuhata is a Professor and a former William Dawson Scholar of Cinema and Media History (2015-2025) in the Department of East Asian Studies, and an associate member of the Department of Art History and Communication Studies at McGill University. Her first book, Cinema of Actuality: Japanese Avant-Garde Filmmaking in the Season of Image Politics (Duke University Press, 2013), won the Best First Book Award from the Society of Cinema and Media Studies. Her second book, Climatic Media: Transpacific Experiments in Atmospheric Control (Duke University Press, 2022), explores the geopolitical conditions underpinning environmental art, weather control, digital computing, and cybernetic architecture in Japan and the United States. Her third book, Archipelagic Archives of the Anthropocene: Visual Grammars of Deep Time (forthcoming from Duke University Press) examines sets of scientific atlases, photographs, and films of fossils, clouds, snow crystals, and corals in relation to the settler colonial histories of geosciences in Japan, the Pacific, and North America. She is currently working on a new project on the media history of celestial navigation and computing.
Moderator: Dr. Christopher Lee, Associate Professor, Department of English Language & Literatures, UBC
Talk abstract
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Location
In-person: Green College Coach House (6201 Cecil Green Park Rd, Vancouver)
Online: the Panopto link will be circulated closer to the presentation dates
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