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The department's Karl Schoonover leads a seminar in "Waste and Its Aesthetic Management" at University of York's Humanities Research Centre's "So-Called Waste" symposium, Friday, the 13th of February. His talk examines how cinema depicts dangerous waste such as pollution and toxins, exploring various toxic sites including the dangerous accumulation of stuff in the moral landscape of melodrama, the precarious visuality afforded waste in industrial documentaries about petroleum, and the perverse toxicology associated with pollution in 1960s art cinema.