Thinking The Ecological in Media Studies

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

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