Media Appearances

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Podcasts

  1. Plant Kingdom, Episode 10: “Jon Pitt: Becoming Botanical.” July 2024.
  2. New Books in Japanese Studies: “Hiromi Ito: Tree Spirits Grass Spirits.” April, 2024.
  3. Networking with Plants in the Anthropocene, Episode 12: “Kate Brelje Interviews Jon Pitt.” August 2023.

Interviews

  1. “An Interview with Jon L Pitt, translation of Tree Spirits Grass Spirits.” Nightboat Books Blog, November 2023.
  2. “Beyond Human Subjectivity: An Interview with Jon Pitt.” Asymptote Journal, December 2020.

Recorded Lectures/Videos

  1. “‘Black Rain’ shows what ‘Oppenheimer’ does not” – Introduction to a screening of “Black Rain” at UC Berkeley presented by the On the Same Page program on October 24, 2024.
  2. “Moss as Evolutionary Kin: A Plant Humanities Reading of Osaki Midori” – Lecture for the Shinso Ito Center for Japanese Religions and Culture’s Annual Environmental Humanities Lecture Series, University of Southern California. April 15, 2014.
  3. “Conspiracies and Coalitions in Japanese Environmental Humanities (AAS 2022 Panel)” – Japan Foundation New York. June 6, 2022.
  4. “Becoming Marimo: The Curious Case of a Charismatic Alga and Imagined Indigeneity” – Lecture for the University of Michigan Center for Japanese Studies. October 13, 2022.
  5. “Diving Deep ep. 1- Thinking Botanically: a Conversation about Literature and Science” – UCI Humanities Center. February 26, 2021.