Julia Leyda
About
Julia Leyda (MA & PhD, English, University of Washington, 1998) holds a Professorship in Film Studies in the Department of Art and Media Studies at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim. Julia is also a senior research fellow in the Graduate School of North American Studies at the John F. Kennedy Institute of the Freie Universität Berlin and was an affiliated researcher in the Critical Petroaesthetics Collaboratory at the Oslo School of Environmental Humanities. At NTNU, Julia is a founder of the Environmental Humanities Research Group (@EnvHumNTNU), a member of TransLit, and an affiliated researcher in GenderHub. She sits on the editorial boards of the Journal of American Studies and the Environmental Humanities book series at Metzler Verlag / Springer.
Julia is a board member of the NFR's Norwegian Researcher School in Environmental Humanities (NoRS-EH), the NordPlus network Bringing Research in the Green Humanities into Teaching (BRIGHT), and the NFR's Asia-Norway Environmental Storytelling Network (ANEST). Her latest research project role is in the NFR's The Translatability of Oil (TOIL), based at UiO. She has held funded visiting positions at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society (München), the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (Potsdam), the Freie Universität Berlin's Graduate School for North American Studies, and the School of Communication and Culture at Aarhus University.
Research Interests in Cinema and Television Studies
- environmental humanities, petrocultures, and Anthropocene screen cultures
- intersectional feminist theory and criticism
- aesthetics and affects of cuteness
- Hollywood cinema and popular culture
Books
- Anthroposcreens: Mediating the Climate Unconscious (forthcoming from Cambridge University Press, Elements in Environmental Humanities series, 2023).
- Reframing Todd Haynes: Feminism's Indelible Mark (co-editor with Theresa L. Geller, Duke UP, 2022)
- The Aesthetics and Affects of Cuteness (co-editor with Joshua Paul Dale, Joyce Goggin, Anthony P. McIntyre, and Diane Negra, Routledge, 2017)
- Post-Cinema: Theorizing 21st-Century Film (co-editor with Shane Denson, REFRAME, 2016) OA
- American Mobilities: Geographies of Class, Race, and Gender in US Culture (Transcript-Columbia UP, 2016) OA
- Extreme Weather and Global Media (co-editor with Diane Negra, Routledge, 2015)
- Interviews: Todd Haynes (editor, UP of Mississippi, 2014)
Publications
2022
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Leyda, Julia.
(2022)
Playing with Dolls: Girls, Fans, and the Queer Feminism of Velvet Goldmine.
Reframing Todd Haynes: Feminism's Indelible Mark.
Academic chapter/article
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Leyda, Julia;
Geller, Theresa L..
(2022)
Reframing Todd Haynes: Feminism's Indelible Mark.
Duke University Press. 2022. ISBN 9781478015390.
Scientific anthology
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Leyda, Julia;
Rommetveit, Ingrid.
(2022)
“Tangerine: Merry Christmas, Bitch!”.
Zett filmtidskrift.
Popular scientific article
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Leyda, Julia;
Waade, Anne Marit.
(2022)
Petro-Menopause in "Borgen: Power & Glory".
Los Angeles Review of Books.
Popular scientific article
2021
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Leyda, Julia.
(2021)
“Piracy and Authorship in Breaking Bad Fan Remix Videos.”.
Contemporary Quality TV: The Auteur, The Fans, and Constructions of Gender.
Academic chapter/article
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Leyda, Julia.
(2021)
Post-Air-Conditioning Futures and the Climate Unconscious.
Screen.
volum 62 (1).
Academic article
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Leyda, Julia;
Denson, Shane.
(2021)
Post-Sinema – 21. Yüzyıl Sinemasının Kuramsallaştırılması.
2021. ISBN 9786052603192.
Book
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Leyda, Julia;
Negra, Diane.
(2021)
Contemporary Television in/of the Banal Anthropocene.
Screen.
volum 62 (1).
Academic article
2020
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Furuseth, Sissel;
Gjelsvik, Anne;
Gürata, Ahmet;
Hennig, Reinhard;
Leyda, Julia;
Ritson, Katie.
(2020)
Climate Change in Literature, Television and Film from Norway.
Ecozona.
volum 11 (2).
Academic article
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Leyda, Julia.
(2020)
The Feminist Futures of American Studies: Addressing the Post-Weinstein Media and Cultural Landscape.
Journal of the Austrian Association for American Studies (JAAS).
volum 1 (1).
Academic article
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Leyda, Julia;
Brinch, Sara.
(2020)
Anthropocene slow TV: Temporalities of extinction in Svalbard.
Journal of Scandinavian Cinema.
volum 10 (3).
Academic article
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Leyda, Julia;
Negra, Diane.
(2020)
Querying Karen: The Rise of the Angry White Woman.
European Journal of Cultural Studies.
Academic article
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Leyda, Julia;
Rommetveit, Ingrid.
(2020)
Hva er cli-fi? Og hvorfor trenger vi det?.
Z filmtidsskrift.
volum 151 (2).
Popular scientific article
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Leyda, Julia;
Rommetveit, Ingrid.
(2020)
Vekk med gravalvoret! Om humor og ironi i cli-fi.
Z filmtidsskrift.
volum 151 (2).
Popular scientific article
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Leyda, Julia;
Tedjasukmana, Chris.
(2020)
Film Studies, Feminism, and Film Curating in Germany: An Interview with Heide Schlüpmann and Karola Gramann.
NECSUS. European Journal of Media Studies (EJMS).
Academic article
2019
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Leyda, Julia.
(2019)
Climate Crisis, Financial Crisis: Negative Mobility and Domicide in 21st-Century American Cinema.
Literary Geographies.
volum 5 (2).
Academic article
2018
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Leyda, Julia.
(2018)
"For Superhero Movies".
Montages International.
Editorial
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Leyda, Julia.
(2018)
Hook and Eye.
Communication, Culture & Critique (CCC).
volum 11.
Academic article
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Leyda, Julia.
(2018)
“Petropolitics, Cli-Fi, and Occupied.”.
Journal of Scandinavian Cinema.
volum 8 (2).
Academic article
2017
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Dale, Joshua Paul;
Goggin, Joyce;
Leyda, Julia;
Mcintyre, Anthony P.;
Negra, Diane.
(2017)
The Aesthetics and Affects of Cuteness.
The Aesthetics and Affects of Cuteness.
Academic chapter/article
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Leyda, Julia.
(2017)
Cute 21st-Century Post-Fembots.
The Aesthetics and Affects of Cuteness.
Academic chapter/article
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Dale, Joshua Paul;
Goggin, Joyce;
Leyda, Julia;
McIntyre, Anthony P.;
Negra, Diane.
(2017)
The Aesthetics and Affects of Cuteness.
Routledge. 2017. ISBN 978-1138998766.
Scientific anthology
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Leikam, Susanne;
Leyda, Julia.
(2017)
“Cli-Fi in American Studies: A Research Bibliography.”.
American studies journal.
volum 62.
Scientific translation/review
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Leikam, Susanne;
Leyda, Julia.
(2017)
“‘What’s in a Name?’: Cli-Fi and American Studies.”.
Amerikastudien.
Academic article
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Leyda, Julia.
(2017)
“Breaking Bad: A Recessionary Western.”.
Violence and Open Spaces: The Subversion of Boundaries and the Transformation of the Western Genre..
Academic chapter/article
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Leyda, Julia.
(2017)
“Financial Times: The Economic and Industrial Temporalities in Arrested Development.”.
Television & New Media.
volum 19 (4).
Academic article
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Leyda, Julia.
(2017)
Negative Mobilities.
Spaces of Expression and Repression in Post-Millennial North-American Literature and Visual Culture.
Academic chapter/article
2016
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Leyda, Julia.
(2016)
American Mobilities: Geographies of Class, Race, and Gender in US Culture.
Transcript Verlag. 2016. ISBN 978-3-8376-3455-6.
Scientific monography
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Leyda, Julia.
(2016)
Demon Debt: Paranormal Activity as Recessionary Post-Cinematic Allegory.
Post-Cinema: Theorizing 21st-Century Film.
Chapter
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Leyda, Julia.
(2016)
“The Dystopian Impulse of Contemporary Cli-Fi: Lessons and Questions from a Joint Workshop of the IASS and the JFKI (FU Berlin),” with Kathleen Loock, Alexander Starre, Thiago Pinto Barbosa, and Manuel Rivera.
Briefs
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Leyda, Julia.
(2016)
The Financialization of Domestic Space in Arrested Development and Breaking Bad.
Class Divisions in Serial Television.
Chapter
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Leyda, Julia;
Denson, Shane.
(2016)
Perspectives on Post-Cinema: An Introduction.
Post-Cinema: Theorizing 21st-Century Film.
Introduction
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Leyda, Julia;
Denson, Shane.
(2016)
Post-Cinema: Theorizing 21st-Century Film.
2016. ISBN 9780993199639.
Scientific anthology
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Negra, Diane;
Lagerwey, Jorie;
Leyda, Julia.
(2016)
Female-Centered Television in an Age of Precarity.
Genders.
volum 1 (1).
Academic article
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Fontini, Pinar;
Leyda, Julia;
Denson, Shane.
(2016)
“Post-Sinema Üzerine Düşünceler: Giriş.” Post-Sinema – 21. Yüzyıl Sinemasının Kuramsallaştırılması. Trans. Pinar Fontini. Nota Bene, 2021. Trans. of “Perspectives on Post-Cinema: An Introduction,” by Julia Leyda and Shane Denson. Post-Cinema: Theorizing 21st-Century Film. Eds. Shane Denson and Julia Leyda. REFRAME, 2016.
Post-Cinema: Theorizing 21st-Century Film.
Chapter/Article
2015
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Leyda, Julia;
Negra, Diane.
(2015)
Extreme Weather and Global Media.
Routledge. 2015. ISBN 9781138798793.
Scientific anthology
2014
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Leyda, Julia.
(2014)
Interviews: Todd Haynes.
University Press of Mississippi. 2014. ISBN 1496807901.
Scientific anthology
Scientific articles
-
Leyda, Julia.
(2021)
Post-Air-Conditioning Futures and the Climate Unconscious.
Screen.
volum 62 (1).
Academic article
-
Leyda, Julia;
Negra, Diane.
(2021)
Contemporary Television in/of the Banal Anthropocene.
Screen.
volum 62 (1).
Academic article
-
Furuseth, Sissel;
Gjelsvik, Anne;
Gürata, Ahmet;
Hennig, Reinhard;
Leyda, Julia;
Ritson, Katie.
(2020)
Climate Change in Literature, Television and Film from Norway.
Ecozona.
volum 11 (2).
Academic article
-
Leyda, Julia.
(2020)
The Feminist Futures of American Studies: Addressing the Post-Weinstein Media and Cultural Landscape.
Journal of the Austrian Association for American Studies (JAAS).
volum 1 (1).
Academic article
-
Leyda, Julia;
Brinch, Sara.
(2020)
Anthropocene slow TV: Temporalities of extinction in Svalbard.
Journal of Scandinavian Cinema.
volum 10 (3).
Academic article
-
Leyda, Julia;
Negra, Diane.
(2020)
Querying Karen: The Rise of the Angry White Woman.
European Journal of Cultural Studies.
Academic article
-
Leyda, Julia;
Tedjasukmana, Chris.
(2020)
Film Studies, Feminism, and Film Curating in Germany: An Interview with Heide Schlüpmann and Karola Gramann.
NECSUS. European Journal of Media Studies (EJMS).
Academic article
-
Leyda, Julia.
(2019)
Climate Crisis, Financial Crisis: Negative Mobility and Domicide in 21st-Century American Cinema.
Literary Geographies.
volum 5 (2).
Academic article
-
Leyda, Julia.
(2018)
Hook and Eye.
Communication, Culture & Critique (CCC).
volum 11.
Academic article
-
Leyda, Julia.
(2018)
“Petropolitics, Cli-Fi, and Occupied.”.
Journal of Scandinavian Cinema.
volum 8 (2).
Academic article
-
Leikam, Susanne;
Leyda, Julia.
(2017)
“‘What’s in a Name?’: Cli-Fi and American Studies.”.
Amerikastudien.
Academic article
-
Leyda, Julia.
(2017)
“Financial Times: The Economic and Industrial Temporalities in Arrested Development.”.
Television & New Media.
volum 19 (4).
Academic article
-
Negra, Diane;
Lagerwey, Jorie;
Leyda, Julia.
(2016)
Female-Centered Television in an Age of Precarity.
Genders.
volum 1 (1).
Academic article
Journal publications
-
Leyda, Julia;
Rommetveit, Ingrid.
(2022)
“Tangerine: Merry Christmas, Bitch!”.
Zett filmtidskrift.
Popular scientific article
-
Leyda, Julia;
Waade, Anne Marit.
(2022)
Petro-Menopause in "Borgen: Power & Glory".
Los Angeles Review of Books.
Popular scientific article
-
Leyda, Julia;
Rommetveit, Ingrid.
(2020)
Hva er cli-fi? Og hvorfor trenger vi det?.
Z filmtidsskrift.
volum 151 (2).
Popular scientific article
-
Leyda, Julia;
Rommetveit, Ingrid.
(2020)
Vekk med gravalvoret! Om humor og ironi i cli-fi.
Z filmtidsskrift.
volum 151 (2).
Popular scientific article
-
Leyda, Julia.
(2018)
"For Superhero Movies".
Montages International.
Editorial
-
Leikam, Susanne;
Leyda, Julia.
(2017)
“Cli-Fi in American Studies: A Research Bibliography.”.
American studies journal.
volum 62.
Scientific translation/review
Books
-
Leyda, Julia;
Geller, Theresa L..
(2022)
Reframing Todd Haynes: Feminism's Indelible Mark.
Duke University Press. 2022. ISBN 9781478015390.
Scientific anthology
-
Dale, Joshua Paul;
Goggin, Joyce;
Leyda, Julia;
McIntyre, Anthony P.;
Negra, Diane.
(2017)
The Aesthetics and Affects of Cuteness.
Routledge. 2017. ISBN 978-1138998766.
Scientific anthology
-
Leyda, Julia.
(2016)
American Mobilities: Geographies of Class, Race, and Gender in US Culture.
Transcript Verlag. 2016. ISBN 978-3-8376-3455-6.
Scientific monography
-
Leyda, Julia;
Denson, Shane.
(2016)
Post-Cinema: Theorizing 21st-Century Film.
2016. ISBN 9780993199639.
Scientific anthology
-
Leyda, Julia;
Negra, Diane.
(2015)
Extreme Weather and Global Media.
Routledge. 2015. ISBN 9781138798793.
Scientific anthology
-
Leyda, Julia.
(2014)
Interviews: Todd Haynes.
University Press of Mississippi. 2014. ISBN 1496807901.
Scientific anthology
Part of book/report
-
Leyda, Julia.
(2022)
Playing with Dolls: Girls, Fans, and the Queer Feminism of Velvet Goldmine.
Reframing Todd Haynes: Feminism's Indelible Mark.
Academic chapter/article
-
Leyda, Julia.
(2021)
“Piracy and Authorship in Breaking Bad Fan Remix Videos.”.
Contemporary Quality TV: The Auteur, The Fans, and Constructions of Gender.
Academic chapter/article
-
Dale, Joshua Paul;
Goggin, Joyce;
Leyda, Julia;
Mcintyre, Anthony P.;
Negra, Diane.
(2017)
The Aesthetics and Affects of Cuteness.
The Aesthetics and Affects of Cuteness.
Academic chapter/article
-
Leyda, Julia.
(2017)
Cute 21st-Century Post-Fembots.
The Aesthetics and Affects of Cuteness.
Academic chapter/article
-
Leyda, Julia.
(2017)
“Breaking Bad: A Recessionary Western.”.
Violence and Open Spaces: The Subversion of Boundaries and the Transformation of the Western Genre..
Academic chapter/article
-
Leyda, Julia.
(2017)
Negative Mobilities.
Spaces of Expression and Repression in Post-Millennial North-American Literature and Visual Culture.
Academic chapter/article
-
Leyda, Julia.
(2016)
Demon Debt: Paranormal Activity as Recessionary Post-Cinematic Allegory.
Post-Cinema: Theorizing 21st-Century Film.
Chapter
-
Leyda, Julia.
(2016)
The Financialization of Domestic Space in Arrested Development and Breaking Bad.
Class Divisions in Serial Television.
Chapter
-
Leyda, Julia;
Denson, Shane.
(2016)
Perspectives on Post-Cinema: An Introduction.
Post-Cinema: Theorizing 21st-Century Film.
Introduction
Teaching
Courses
Media
2021
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Academic lectureLeyda, Julia. (2021) Petroguilt in Norwegian Television. Media as Infrastructure Workshop . Linnæus University; Växjö. 2021-12-09 - 2021-12-10.
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Academic lectureLeyda, Julia. (2021) Theorizing Norwegian Petrocultures. Nordic Anthropocene Media: Between Screen and Green Life ; 2021-09-20 - 2021-09-20.
2020
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Academic lectureHøier, Svein; Tiller, Asbjørn; Leyda, Julia. (2020) A cli-fi leitmotif. The use of low frequency rumble in The Day After Tomorrow. Norsk Medieforskerkonferanse 2020 . Norsk Medieforskerlag; Oslo. 2020-10-22 - 2020-10-23.
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Academic lectureLeyda, Julia. (2020) Anthropocene Slow TV. Lübeck Film Studies Colloquium . Journal of Scandinavian Cinema / Lübeck Nordic Film Festival; online. 2020-11-06.
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Popular scientific lectureLeyda, Julia. (2020) Blue Humanities and Oceans Research (panelist). NTNU Oceans Breakfast . NTNU Oceans; Trondheim. 2020-01-30.
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Popular scientific lectureLeyda, Julia. (2020) Human/Water/Ocean Seminar. Kosmorama Film Festival Seminar . Kosmorama; Trondheim. 2020-03-04.
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Popular scientific lectureLeyda, Julia; Carson, Siri Granum; Klose, Alexander; Steininger, Benjamin. (2020) Plankton and Drillhead: Norway's Carbon Modernity (panel). Plankton and Drillhead: Norway's Carbon Modernity . Kunsthall Trondheim / Goethe Institut Oslo; online. 2020-11-05.
2019
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Academic lectureJørgensen, Dolly; Leyda, Julia; Kramvig, Britt; Armiero, Marco. (2019) Environmental Humanities of the Global North Panel Discussion. Nordic Environments: Opening Conference of the Oslo School of Environmental Humanities . Universitet i Oslo; Oslo. 2019-11-01.
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Popular scientific lectureLeyda, Julia. (2019) "Apocalypse Now Again: Cli-Fi and Its Futures". Oslo Film Seminar . Norwegian Federation of Film Societies; Oslo. 2019-10-12 - 2019-10-13.
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Popular scientific lectureLeyda, Julia. (2019) "Cuteness and Power". Torucon: Trondheim Cosplay Convention ; 2019-08-10 - 2019-08-11.
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Academic lectureLeyda, Julia. (2019) “Nordic Green and Contemporary Norwegian Screen Petrocultures.”. Im Zeichen der Warnutopie – Aktuelle skandinavische Utopien, Dystopien und Science fiction . Universität Wien; Vienna. 2019-01-17 - 2019-01-18.
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Academic lectureLeyda, Julia. (2019) “Post-Air-Conditioning Futures and the Climate Unconscious.”. NordMedia Conference ; Malmö. 2019-08-21 - 2019-08-23.
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Academic lectureLeyda, Julia. (2019) “Post-Air-Conditioning Futures and the Climate Unconscious.”. Society for Cinema and Media Studies ; Seattle. 2019-03-13 - 2019-03-17.
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Academic lectureLeyda, Julia; Loock, Kathleen; Pantenburg, Volker; Lee, Kevin B.; DeFren, Allison; Galibert-Laîné, Chloé. (2019) Film and Media Scholarship in the Digital Age Roundtable. Videographic Criticism: Aesthetics and Methods of the Video Essay ; 2019-06-21 - 2019-06-21.
2018
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Academic lectureLeyda, Julia. (2018) "Contemporary Norwegian Screen Petrocultures". Lübeck Film Studies Colloquium ; 2018-11-02 - 2018-11-03.
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Academic lectureLeyda, Julia. (2018) “Face Forward: Gender, Survival, and the Rückenfigur in Big Little Lies.”. Console-ing Passions Conference ; Bournemouth University. 2018-07-10 - 2018-07-13.
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Academic lectureLeyda, Julia. (2018) "Post-Air-Conditioning Futures and the Climate Unconscious". Anthropocene Stories Symposium . Julia Leyda; NTNU. 2018-09-28 - 2018-09-28.
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Academic lectureLeyda, Julia. (2018) “The Transmedial Utopian Afrofuturist Extractivist Blockbuster: Marvel’s Black Panther.”. Literature/Film Adaptation Conference ; 2018-11-29 - 2018-12-02.
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Academic lectureLeyda, Julia. (2018) “The Utopian Afrofuturist Extractivist Blockbuster: Marvel’s Black Panther.”. Resisting Extractivism in Border Zones: Art and Protest from the Arctic North to the Global South . Arctic University of Tromsø; 2018-11-15 - 2018-11-17.
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Academic lectureLeyda, Julia. (2018) “The Utopian Afrofuturist Extractivist Blockbuster: Marvel’s Black Panther.”. Fiction Film Workshop, Norsk Medieforskerkonferanse ; Bodø. 2018-10-18 - 2018-10-19.
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Popular scientific lectureLeyda, Julia; Dale, Joshua Paul. (2018) "Kosmorama Goes Kawaii". Kosmorama International Film Festival Seminar ; 2018-03-05 - 2018-03-11.
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Popular scientific lectureLeyda, Julia; Loock, Kathleen. (2018) "Da tut sich was: Wie Netflix, revivals, und starke Frauen die amerikanische Fernsehlandschaft verändern". Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften ; 2018-06-11 - 2018-06-11.
2017
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Academic lectureLeyda, Julia. (2017) “Cuteness and Politics in Contemporary Popular Culture.”. Research Seminar . Dept. of Art and Media Studies, NTNU; 2017-04-06 - 2017-04-06.
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Academic lectureLeyda, Julia. (2017) “Financial Times: The Economic and Industrial Temporalities in Arrested Development.”. Society for Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference ; Chicago. 2017-03-24 - 2017-03-27.
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Academic lectureLeyda, Julia. (2017) “Negative Mobility and Domicide in 21st-Century US Cinema.”. Mobilizing Home(s): New Approaches to the Study of Home in Contemporary Literature and Culture ; Aarhus University. 2017-09-14 - 2017-09-15.
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Academic lectureLeyda, Julia. (2017) “Playing with Dolls: Girls, Fans, and the Queer Feminism of Velvet Goldmine.”. Guest Lecture ; University of Vienna, Austria. 2017-10-30 - 2017-10-30.
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Popular scientific lectureLeyda, Julia. (2017) "Talking about Film: Hidden Figures.". Kosmorama Trondheim International Film Festival ; 2017-03-09 - 2017-03-09.
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Academic lectureLeyda, Julia. (2017) “The Feminist Futures of American Studies.”. Austrian Association for American Studies Annual Conference ; Salzburg, Austria. 2017-11-03 - 2017-11-05.
2016
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InterviewKlügel, Annika; Leyda, Julia. (2016) Können Filme das Klima retten?. Germany [Internett]. 2016-10-31.
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Academic lectureLeyda, Julia. (2016) Cli-Fi TV: Premediated Global Petro-Crisis in Occupied. The Collapse of Memory – Memory of Collapse: Remembering the Past, Re-Constructing the Future in Periods of Crisis ; 2016-09-21 - 2016-09-22.
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Popular scientific lectureLeyda, Julia. (2016) Cultural Affordances of Cli-Fi. Senior Fellow's Lecture . Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies; Potsdam. 2016-11-01 - 2016-11-01.
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Academic lectureLeyda, Julia. (2016) Cute 21st-Century Post-Fem-Bots (Keynote). Encoding the Future: Perspectives on the Making of the ‘Human’ . University of Siegen; 2016-12-01 - 2016-12-02.
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Academic lectureLeyda, Julia. (2016) Occupied: Cli-Fi and Contemporary TV. Lübeck Film Studies Colloquium ; 2016-11-04 - 2016-11-05.
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Academic lectureLeyda, Julia. (2016) ‘Winter is Coming’: Contemporary QTV and Climate Change. Austrian Association for American Studies ; 2016-11-11 - 2016-11-13.