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ALT An individual stands in the foreground with a scenic view of Mount Fuji and a red pagoda in the background. This person is wearing a dark jacket with a detailed pattern, sunglasses, and mustard-colored pants. The atmosphere is clear, allowing for a vibrant depiction of the landscape.
ALT Person smiling, seated on a step in front of a building with columns, wearing glasses, a brown jacket, and jeans.
ALT This talk troubles the recent history of green technology by tracing its products and pollutants to their sites of extraction, in this case, the Bayan Obo Rare Earth Mine in Inner Mongolia. It locates the origins of this resource frontier to the Japanese occupation of Inner Mongolia (1937-1945). Normalizing relations with China reopened this resource frontier in the 1970s and 80s, which galvanized the technological enterprises that were so crucial to Japan's economic rise. As this talk shows, this phenomenon relied as much on domestic research and design, as it did on foreign material with profound effects to lives and livelihoods beyond Japan's borders..
ALT Athulya Aravind smiles against an out-of-focus outdoor background.
ALT Kai von Fintel, the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Linguistics (left), and Sabine Iatridou, the David W. Skinner Professor of Linguistics, are pictured side by side
ALT The Alchemist structure on the MIT campus