VIRTUAL 'On Extraction and Media: Conversations'

“On Extraction and Media: Conversations” is part of an ongoing collaborative research project exploring the relations of extraction that underpin and shape global media cultures. It brings together scholars from across the world to talk together and share research, ideas, and praxis. 

Participants include: 

• Karla Palma is Assistant Professor at the Universidad de Chile and researcher at the Research Center for Integrated Disaster Risk Management, CIGIDEN. Previously, she worked as a journalist and activist in issues related to communication and environmental issues in Chile. Her work focuses on the crossroad of communication, extractivism, and socio-environmental disasters, with a specific interest in mining and coastal zone communities. 
• Macarena Gomez-Barris is Professor at the Pratt Institute. She is the author of four books, Where Memory Dwells: Culture and State Violence in Chile (2009), The Extractive Zone: Social Ecologies and Decolonial Perspectives (2017), Beyond the Pink Tide: Art and Political Undercurrents in the Américas (2018), and Towards a Sociology of a Trace (2010, with Herman Gray). She is completing a new book on what she terms the colonial Anthropocene, At the Sea’s Edge: Liquidity Beyond Colonial Extinction (Forthcoming Duke University Press 2022).
• Elena Past is Professor of Italian in the Department of Classical and Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, at Wayne State University, and currently a Rome Prize Fellow at the American Academy in Rome and a Fulbright U.S. Scholar. Her books include Italian Cinema Beyond the Human (2019); and the co-edited collections Landscapes, Natures, Ecologies: Italy and the Environmental Humanities and Thinking Italian Animals: Human and Posthuman in Modern Italian Literature and Film.
• Alice Lovejoy is Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature and the graduate program in Moving Image, Media, and Sound at the University of Minnesota. She is the author of Army Film and the Avant Garde: Cinema and Experiment in the Czechoslovak Military (2015) and co-editor of Remapping Cold War Media: Institutions, Infrastructures, Translations (forthcoming). She is at work on a monograph entitled Militant Chemistry: Film and its Raw Materials, and a co-edited volume on the history of film stock.

The conversation will be hosted by Professor Lee Grieveson (UCL) and Professor Priya Jaikumar (USC) and is a co-production between UCL and USC’s Division of Cinema and Media.

If you missed the event you can watch the recording here:

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Image caption: Scorched Earth, 2006. Billboard paper, gel medium, acrylic, mixed media on canvas. The Broad. Photo by Mark Bradford

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