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Yuriko Furuhata
Yuriko Furuhata is professor and William Dawson scholar of cinema and media history in the Department of East Asian Studies at McGill University. Her first book, Cinema of Actuality: Japanese Avant-Garde Filmmaking in the Season of Image Politics (Duke University Press, 2013), won the Best First Book Award from the Society of Cinema and Media Studies. Her second book, Climatic Media: Transpacific Experiments in Atmospheric Control (Duke University Press, 2022) explores the geopolitical conditions underpinning environmental art, weather control, digital computing and cybernetic architecture in Japan and the United States. Climatic Media won the 2022 Atmospheric Science Librarians International (ASLI) CHOICE Award in the category of interdisciplinary monograph. She is currently completing a book, titled Visual Grammars of Deep Time: Archipelagic Archives of the Anthropocene (under contract, Duke University Press), which examines scientific atlases, photographs and films of fossils, clouds, snow crystals and corals in relation to the settler colonial histories of geosciences in Japan, the Pacific and North America.
Contact: Department of East Asian Studies, McGill University, 680 Sherbrooke Ouest, Montreal Quebec, H3A 2M7, Canada.