Graduate Seminar with Dr. Jussi Parikka Followed by Book Talk
Monday, January 13, 2025 10am to 12:30pm
CHASS Interdisciplinary South 1111
Dr. Parikka is the inaugural International Visiting Professor at UCR’s Center for Ideas and Society, sponsored by the Vice Provost for International Affair’s office and the Center’s Being Human initiative.
This event will be followed by a book conversation at 2:00PM in INTS 1109 with Prof. Gloria Chan Sook Kim and Dr. Parikka about his new book, Living Surfaces: Images, Plants, and Environments of Media (2024)
Living Surfaces examines a range of case studies from eighteenth-century experiments with and observations of vegetal matter, photosynthesis, and plant physiology to twenty-first-century machine vision and AI techniques of calculating agricultural and other landscape surfaces.
Copies of the book will be available for sale and signing at the event.
Parking permits will be provided for non- UCR guests.
Space is limited and registration is required for this event:
Sponsored by the Being Human Initiative at the Center for Ideas and Society and the UCR English Department.