Thursday, October 24, 2019 - 06:00pm - Friday, October 25, 2019 - 09:00am
Co-sponsored by the Global Humanities Initiative; Weatherhead East Asian Institute; Center for Comparative Media; Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian & African Studies; Program in Chinese Literature and Culture; Department of Art History
612 Schermerhorn Hall, Columbia University
THURSDAY 10/24
6:00p-8:00p
612 Schermerhorn Hall
6:00p | WELCOME Opening address by Sarah Cole, Dean of Humanities |
6:15p- 6:30p | INTRODUCTION Conference introduction by Brian Larkin, Ying Qian, and Debashree Mukherjee |
6:30p- 8:00p | KEYNOTE PANEL Yuriko Furuhata, “Geoengineering” Bishnupriya Ghosh, “Epidemic Media” John Durham Peters, “Kairos” Weihong Bao, “Set Design” |
8:00p- 9:00p | RECEPTION Stronach Center, Schermerhorn Hall |
FRIDAY 10/25
9:00a-5:45p
612 Schermerhorn Hall
9:00a | LIGHT BREAKFAST |
9:15a- 11:00a | PANEL 1: ECOLOGY AS METHOD Thomas Lamarre, “Attention Ecology and Economy” Debashree Mukherjee, “Film History as an Ecology of Energy Relations” Brian Jacobson, “The Media Architecture of Three (or Four) Ecologies” Zeynep Çelik Alexander, Chair |
11:00a | COFFEE BREAK |
11:15a- 1:00p | PANEL 2: AESTHETICS AND MATERIAL ENTANGLEMENT Ying Qian, “Building Reservoirs with Film: Productive Cinema, Experimental Technology, Sleepless Labor” Ben Mendelsohn, “As If Sand Were Stone: A Documentary Experiment in Urban Media Ecology ” Inga Pollmann, “Neoliberal Ecologies: Aesthetics of Resistance, Resilience and Resonance in Contemporary Cinema.” Stefan Andriopoulos, Chair |
1:00p | LUNCH |
2:00p- 3:45p | PANEL 3: AMBIENT INFRASTRUCTURES Brian Larkin, “The Ambient Infrastructure of Generators” Rahul Mukherjee, “Wireless Saturation” Jie Li, “An Ecology of Hot Noise: Loudspeakers and Open-Air Cinema in Socialist China” Reinhold Martin, Chair |
3:45p | COFFEE BREAK |
4:00p- 5:45p | PANEL 4: ELEMENTAL MEDIA Jennifer Gabrys, “A Media Ecology of Particulate Matter” Nadine Chan, “Seeing Friction in the Extractive Zone: Media, Meteorology, and the Myth of Total Knowledge.” Thomas Pringle, “The Whole Earth and the Earth System in South African Apartheid” Lydia Liu, Chair |
5:45p- 6:45p | CLOSING RECEPTION Stronach Center |