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Ilona Jurkonytė

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Film Curator, Film and Environmental Media Researcher Arts & Science Postdoctoral Fellow | Cinema Studies Institute | University of Toronto Nuclear coloniality, cinema's military industrial complex, space botany

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Ilona Jurkonytė @ilonajurkonyte.bsky.social · Jan 31

On the role of the moving image in nuclear coloniality.

Bomb Archive: The Marshall Islands as Cold War Film Set

This essay offers a decolonial analysis of the inaugural moment of the United States’ Cold War project—the nuclear weapon “testing” in oceanic environments. As an alternative to the usual framing of P...

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Ilona Jurkonytė @ilonajurkonyte.bsky.social · Jul 11

Ilona Jurkonytė @ilonajurkonyte.bsky.social · Apr 30

“The denial of Lithuania’s existence seems very similar to the denial of Ukrainians as a nation,” Professor Gintautas Mažeikis from the Vytautas Magnus University told LRT RADIO

I wish I had read this book, but I can't imagine the process of reading it, so I won't.

Russia publishes book on Lithuanian history, preface written by Lavrov

Lithuanian Foreign Minister Kęstutis Budrys has criticised a book on the country’s history published in Russia, which fe...

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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · Apr 3

As Ukraine seeks international support on nuclear safety, South Africa’s history and geopolitical significance make it an essential partner in advocating for global nuclear security, writes Truth Hounds Co-Executive Director Dmytro Koval in his op-ed.

Can South Africa lead the charge for nuclear safety in Ukraine?

Through the first half of March, the Truth Hounds team embarked on an advocacy trip to South Africa to discuss two major recent reports: one on the destruction of the Kakhovka dam and the internationa...

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Ilona Jurkonytė @ilonajurkonyte.bsky.social · Mar 28

The US has the power to switch off the UK’s nuclear subs – a big problem as Donald Trump becomes an unreliable partner

Has the UK’s dependence on the US become a Faustian pact?

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Ilona Jurkonytė @ilonajurkonyte.bsky.social · Mar 28

Notes on the Production of Nuclear Sublime

In this talk, I inquire: what are the epistemic implications of visual apparatus in the context of the oceanic nuclear project? What is the role of audiovisual media in the production of the U.S. Cold...

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The Conversation UK @uk.theconversation.com · Mar 28

Let’s train an army of nature protectors to speak for nature itself – not for what it can provide for humans.

Rivers are increasingly being given legal rights. Now they need people who will defend these rights in court

Let’s train an army of nature protectors to speak for nature itself – not for what it can provide for humans.

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Ilona Jurkonytė @ilonajurkonyte.bsky.social · Mar 27

What is and isn't going on?

Ilona Jurkonytė @ilonajurkonyte.bsky.social · Mar 26

Can't wait for this talk.

Guldana Salimjan analyzes the contentious narratives of the Chinese state and Muslim Kazakh epistemologies of ancestral land and kinship expressed through life-cycle rituals, oral poetry, and storytelling...

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State of Dispossession: Politics of Land and Memory on the Sino-Kazakh Borderland

How does a self-described anti-imperial socialist state conceal a settler colonial project on its frontiers? How are embodied memories and practices entangled with colonial secular reterritorializatio...

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Ilona Jurkonytė @ilonajurkonyte.bsky.social · Mar 8

U.S. suspends commercial satellite imagery service to Ukraine

U.S. aerospace firm Maxar Technologies said on Friday it had disabled access to its satellite imagery for Ukraine, as U.S. President Donald Trump's administration suspends intelligence sharing with Ky...

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Ilona Jurkonytė @ilonajurkonyte.bsky.social · Mar 1

Wasteland, by TRUPA TRUPA

from the album Headache

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Ilona Jurkonytė @ilonajurkonyte.bsky.social · Feb 22

Reading these news made me feel as if my whole world died with me inside it and I am watching it all from the afterlife. As if I know it all, what exactly happens next, yet I am just a ghost condemned to see it all again, and again...

Ilona Jurkonytė @ilonajurkonyte.bsky.social · Feb 20

Ilona Jurkonytė @ilonajurkonyte.bsky.social · Feb 19

There will be no peace without justice: statement of civil society organizations on the US-Russia negotiations | ZMINA Human Rights Centre

We, representatives of civil society and human rights organizations, decisively condemn the negotiations between the delegations of the Russian Federation and the United States regarding Ukraine, whic...

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Ilona Jurkonytė @ilonajurkonyte.bsky.social · Feb 19

Last week, I visited UChicago. A brief walk around the Nuclear Energy Sculpture (by Henry Moore, 1967) as part of
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class 'Wild Easts' might have looked a bit like a ritual, but felt more like an investigation.

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Middle East Studies Association of North America (MESA) @mesa1966.bsky.social · Feb 11

#Employment The Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Davis, seeks to hire a sociocultural anthropologist of Palestine. The appointment will be made at the assistant or associate professor rank.

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The Department of Anthropology seeks to hire a sociocultural anthropologist of Palestine. The appointment will be made at the assistant or associate professor rank.

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Ilona Jurkonytė @ilonajurkonyte.bsky.social · Feb 5

More information: www.vda.lt/.../doc.../p...

Ilona Jurkonytė @ilonajurkonyte.bsky.social · Feb 5

This is an interesting conversation with Agnieška Avin.

Destigmatizing the Roma: The Most Forgotten Community in Lithuania

Baltic Ways · Episode

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Ilona Jurkonytė @ilonajurkonyte.bsky.social · Feb 2

As a gentle snowstorm embraces Toronto today, officials are encouraging Canadians to consider not taking vacations in the U.S.

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Ilona Jurkonytė @ilonajurkonyte.bsky.social · Jan 31

On the role of the moving image in nuclear coloniality.

Bomb Archive: The Marshall Islands as Cold War Film Set

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Ilona Jurkonytė @ilonajurkonyte.bsky.social · Jan 31

If only I were in the UK in March, I'd attend this event. #BFMAF

New Cinema Forum

The first edition of Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival’s New Cinema Forum is an invitation to artists, filmmakers, critics and arts/film workers to consider new orientations to creating, exhibiting a...

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Ilona Jurkonytė @ilonajurkonyte.bsky.social · Jan 31

For the occasion to speak about this in Chicago, I am grateful to Darya Tsymbalyuk, the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures and Department of Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Chicago.

Please stop by if you are around. events.uchicago.edu/event/243969...

Ilona Jurkonytė: Spatial Parameters of Cinema Rescue

After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, in the formerly Soviet states, a vast network of cinemas was left suspended—unlike other cultural inst...

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Ilona Jurkonytė @ilonajurkonyte.bsky.social · Jan 31

I hank institutions and funding sources that at different stages supported my thinking, especially, in terms of academic research. Thank you: VU IIRPS, VU Foundation, UofT Arts&Sciences Postdoctoral Fellowship.

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Ilona Jurkonytė @ilonajurkonyte.bsky.social · Jan 31

This is probably because, as Gediminas Urbonas, together with co-authors Ann Lui and Lucas Freeman, emphasize, ‘public space is a perennial and open concern’ (in Public Space? Lost and Found, 2014). Cinema as a public space tends to appear quite mundane, but not until you start losing it...

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Ilona Jurkonytė @ilonajurkonyte.bsky.social · Jan 31

To my own surprise, every time I seem to have more to say about this topic. I guess that is the beauty and generosity of the public space – once you start thinking about it, it continues giving.

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Ilona Jurkonytė @ilonajurkonyte.bsky.social · Jan 31

I have been thinking about cinema spaces for many years now. I have been thinking about them on my own, collectively, during interviews, in writing, also in gatherings of diverse genres – from coffees to committee meetings and conference panels.

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