Presented by the Centre for Cinema Studies and Cinema Thinks the World, the Critical Thinkers Series features research talks by notable and emerging scholars in cinema and media studies. Next up in the series is a talk by Dr. Chelsea Birks, “Transgressive Ecologies: Art and the Environment in Contemporary Cinema”.
All are welcome and there is no need to RSVP.
About Dr. Chelsea Birks:
Chelsea Birks is the Learning and Outreach Director at The Cinematheque in downtown Vancouver and a sessional instructor in Cinema Studies at The University of British Columbia. Chelsea’s research interests include: film philosophy, ecocriticism, postmodernism, documentary, and pedagogy. Her first book, Limit Cinema: Transgression and the Nonhuman in Contemporary Global Film, was published in 2021 as part of Bloomsbury’s “Thinking Cinema” series and received the Society for Cinema and Media Studies prestigious Best First Book Award. She also won the 2017 SCMS Student Writing Award and has been published in Cinema Journal (now JCMS), Film-Philosophy, New Review of Film and Television Studies, and Journal of Gender Studies.