Thinking The Ecological in Media Studies

Thinking The Ecological in Media Studies
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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