Events

Conference Program:

THURSDAY, MARCH 24

GRADUATE STUDENT WORKSHOP

1.00 pm - 5.00 pm, Deutsches Haus, Columbia University

With presentations by Jan Philip Müller (Weimar), Jeffrey Kirkwood
(Princeton), Ginger Nolan (Columbia), Aarti Sethi (Columbia), Linda
Waack (Weimar), Tyler Whitney (Columbia) and Grant Wythoff (Princeton).



7.00 pm - 9.00 pm, Event Oval, Diana Center, Barnard College

Welcome and Introduction by Stefan Andriopoulos

KEYNOTE LECTURE

Jonathan Crary (Columbia University): On the Persistence of Spectacle


FRIDAY, MARCH 25, 2011

PANEL I: PAPERWORK AND BOOK HISTORY

10.00 am - 12.30 pm, 501 Schermerhorn, Columbia

Moderated by Brian Larkin

Adrian Johns (University of Chicago): Unpacking the Universal Library:
The Morals of Massive Research Collections, 1810-2010

Barbara Wittmann (Bauhaus-Universität Weimar): Outlines of Species:
Paperwork in Contemporary Biology

Respondent: Ben Kafka (New York University)


PANEL II: THE MAKING AND MARKING OF TIME

1.30 pm - 5.00 pm, 501 Schermerhorn

Moderated by Nikolaus Wegmann

Jimena Canales (Harvard University): A Tenth of a Second

Mary Ann Doane (Brown University): Lost Time: Technologies of the Gap

Lorenz Engell (Bauhaus-Universität Weimar): On Series

Respondent: Anna McCarthy (New York University)


EVENING LECTURE

6.00 pm - 8.00 pm, 501 Schermerhorn

Joseph Vogl (Humboldt/Princeton): Taming Time: Media of Financialization

Moderated by Thomas Y. Levin


SATURDAY, MARCH 26, 2011

PANEL III: MATERIALITIES OF CULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY

10.00 am - 12.30 pm, 501 Schermerhorn

Moderated by Stefan Andriopoulos

Erhard Schüttpelz (Universität Siegen): Trance Mediums and New Media
in the Long 19th Century: The Heritage of a European Term

Weihong Bao (Columbia University): Sympathetic Vibration: Hypnotism,
Wireless Cinema, and the Invention of Intermedial Spectatorship in
1920s China

Respondent: Marilyn Ivy (Columbia University)


PANEL IV: HISTORIES OF MATERIAL MEDIA

1.30 pm - 5.00 pm, 501 Schermerhorn

Moderated by Reinhold Martin

Tom Gunning (University of Chicago): Time Image and Motion:
Materialities of the Moving Image

John Durham Peters (University of Iowa): Two Cheers for Technological
Determinism

Bernhard Siegert (Bauhaus-Universität Weimar): Door Logics, or, The
Incarnation of the Symbolic: From Cultural Technologies to Cybernetic
Machines

Respondent: Dorothea von Mücke (Columbia University)

FINAL DISCUSSION

5.00 pm - 6.00 pm, 501 Schermerhorn

Organized by the Columbia University Seminar on the Theory and History
of Media; IKKM Weimar, Bauhaus Universität; The Buell Center for the
Study of American Architecture; The Department of German at Princeton
University