Reposted by Ilona JurkonytėThe Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 03/04/2025As 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.kyivindependent.comCan 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... 619024
Ilona Jurkonytė @ilonajurkonyte.bsky.social · 28/03/2025theconversation.comThe US has the power to switch off the UK’s nuclear subs – a big problem as Donald Trump becomes an unreliable partnerHas the UK’s dependence on the US become a Faustian pact? 010
Ilona Jurkonytė @ilonajurkonyte.bsky.social · 28/03/2025cinema.utoronto.caNotes on the Production of Nuclear SublimeIn 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... 010
Reposted by Ilona JurkonytėThe Conversation UK @uk.theconversation.com · 28/03/2025Let’s train an army of nature protectors to speak for nature itself – not for what it can provide for humans.tcnv.linkRivers are increasingly being given legal rights. Now they need people who will defend these rights in courtLet’s train an army of nature protectors to speak for nature itself – not for what it can provide for humans. 25519
Ilona Jurkonytė @ilonajurkonyte.bsky.social · 26/03/2025Can'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... Friday, April 04, 2025 3:30 pm to 5:30 pmreligion.utoronto.caState of Dispossession: Politics of Land and Memory on the Sino-Kazakh BorderlandHow 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... 000
Ilona Jurkonytė @ilonajurkonyte.bsky.social · 08/03/2025ground.newsU.S. suspends commercial satellite imagery service to UkraineU.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... 000
Ilona Jurkonytė @ilonajurkonyte.bsky.social · 01/03/2025trupatrupa.bandcamp.comWasteland, by TRUPA TRUPAfrom the album Headache 020
Ilona Jurkonytė @ilonajurkonyte.bsky.social · 22/02/2025Reading 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... 000
Ilona Jurkonytė @ilonajurkonyte.bsky.social · 19/02/2025zmina.uaThere will be no peace without justice: statement of civil society organizations on the US-Russia negotiations | ZMINA Human Rights CentreWe, 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... 011
Ilona Jurkonytė @ilonajurkonyte.bsky.social · 19/02/2025Last week, I visited UChicago. A brief walk around the Nuclear Energy Sculpture (by Henry Moore, 1967) as part of @daryatsymbalyuk.bsky.social class 'Wild Easts' might have looked a bit like a ritual, but felt more like an investigation. 000
Reposted by Ilona JurkonytėMiddle East Studies Association of North America (MESA) @mesa1966.bsky.social · 11/02/2025#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. mesana.org/resources-an...mesana.orgMiddle East Studies AssociationThe Department of Anthropology seeks to hire a sociocultural anthropologist of Palestine. The appointment will be made at the assistant or associate professor rank. 01311
Ilona Jurkonytė @ilonajurkonyte.bsky.social · 05/02/2025More information: www.vda.lt/.../doc.../p... 030
Ilona Jurkonytė @ilonajurkonyte.bsky.social · 05/02/2025This is an interesting conversation with Agnieška Avin.open.spotify.comDestigmatizing the Roma: The Most Forgotten Community in LithuaniaBaltic Ways · Episode 020
Ilona Jurkonytė @ilonajurkonyte.bsky.social · 02/02/2025As a gentle snowstorm embraces Toronto today, officials are encouraging Canadians to consider not taking vacations in the U.S. 051
Ilona Jurkonytė @ilonajurkonyte.bsky.social · 31/01/2025On the role of the moving image in nuclear coloniality.journals.publishing.umich.eduBomb Archive: The Marshall Islands as Cold War Film SetThis 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... 0111
Ilona Jurkonytė @ilonajurkonyte.bsky.social · 31/01/2025If only I were in the UK in March, I'd attend this event. #BFMAFbfmaf.orgNew Cinema ForumThe 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... 020
Ilona Jurkonytė @ilonajurkonyte.bsky.social · 31/01/2025I 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. 110
Ilona Jurkonytė @ilonajurkonyte.bsky.social · 30/01/2025As I spiral into a migraine of my own today, I feel deep compassion for Patti Smith. This is a gentle reminder: no reading or writing during a migraine. 010
Ilona Jurkonytė @ilonajurkonyte.bsky.social · 30/01/2025A refurbished model of the decommissioned Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant will be featured in the exhibition at the Energy and Technology Museum in Vilnius. #NuSPACES The discussion on nuclear heritage will be led by Dr. Linara Dovydaitytė.docs.google.comRegistracija į Ignalinos atominės elektrinės simuliatoriaus maketo pristatymąVasario 4 d. 14:00 val. Energetikos ir technikos muziejuje įvyks Ignalinos atominės elektrinės maketo simuliatoriaus pristatymo renginys Vytauto Didžiojo universiteto V. Kavolio tarpdisciplininių tyri... 000
Ilona Jurkonytė @ilonajurkonyte.bsky.social · 30/01/2025I love how matters of sustainability, community, and pushing against the corporate greed intertwine in this story! 000
Ilona Jurkonytė @ilonajurkonyte.bsky.social · 27/01/2025jobs.utoronto.caAssistant Professor, Teaching Stream - CLTA - Italian Language and Italian CinemaAssistant Professor, Teaching Stream - CLTA - Italian Language and Italian Cinema 020
Reposted by Ilona JurkonytėSimon Plouffe @splouf.bsky.social · 26/01/2025Même ici tout n’est pas rose…auposte.frBluesky: sous le ciel bleu, de l'argent pas bien rose | Au Poste, média indépendant 100% Live & LibreInternet | Chaque jour, le réseau Bluesky engrange un million d'utilisateurs nouveaux. C'est l'eXode tant attendu. Et pourtant, derrière Bluesky, c'est blockchain, cryptomonnaie, dérégulateurs et comp... 051
Ilona Jurkonytė @ilonajurkonyte.bsky.social · 26/01/2025My impression from the multiple AI training sessions for researchers that I attended over the past several months is that the growing number of tools available in the market leads to the exponential growth of interest in selling these tools to researchers and universities. 120
Ilona Jurkonytė @ilonajurkonyte.bsky.social · 23/12/2023vimeo.com/542859164 This is an excerpt of audiovisual installation Arabidopsis Thaliana (Museum of Modern Art Bogota, Colombia / March – August 1, 2021) Concept, Script, Editing, Production: Ilona Jurkonytė and Santiago Reyes Villaveces; Sound Design: la-tina.co, Andrés Silva 010
Ilona Jurkonytė @ilonajurkonyte.bsky.social · 23/12/2023A Conversation on Predicaments of Artistic Research with Manuel Ángel Macía and Santiago Reyes Villaveces. #artisticresearch #creativeresearch #eu4art #differences #eu4artdifferences #HUFA #approximatingborders #artisticresearchinpractice 030