Media and Mediation (Potsdam, 21-23 May 09)

Media Theory on the Move. Transatlantic Perspectives on Media and
Mediation

21. - 23. Mai 2009

Internationale Konferenz an der Universität Potsdam

Europäische Medienwissenschaft - Universität Potsdam und
Fachhochschule Potsdam

Am Neuen Palais 10
Haus 8, 60/61
Beginn 10.00 Uhr
Konferenzsprache: Englisch

Es handelt sich um die erste transatlantische Tagung dieser Art,
die namhafte deutsche und nordamerikanische Medientheoretiker und
Medienwissenschaftler versammelt, und die die beiden unterschiedlichen
Kulturen medientheoretischen Denkens miteinander ins Gespräch zu
bringen versucht.

Program:

Thursday

10.00 Opening
Dieter Mersch

10.15
Jay David Bolter (Atlanta):
Liveness and Performance in Contemporary Digital Media

11.15
Ludwig Pfeiffer (Bremen):
Media and 'Mentalities':
Theoretical Histories and Conceptual Consequences

12.45
Sybille Krämer (Berlin):
Medium, Message, Messenger: Why Transmission Matters

15.00
Kristóf Nyíri (Budapest):
The Moving Image on a Mobile Device

16.00
Knut Hickethier (Hamburg):
Fictionality, Strategies of Fictionalizing and
fictionalizing Literature

17.30
Thomas Y. Levin (Princeton):
Cinema and Surveillance

18.30 Peter Bexte (Cologne):
Prepositions and Things. Some Reflections on Relations

Friday

10.00
Christoph Tholen (Basel):
Mediality as Inbetweenness: A Historical and Deconstructive
Sketch

11.00
Lorenz Engell (Weimar):
Things and Media

12.30
Mark Hansen (Durham):
Time and Media

15.00
Norm Friesen (Kamloops):
Medienwissenschaften and Media Literacies: Explorations
and Implications

16.00
John Durham Peters (Iowa City):
German-American Influences in Media Theory: The Case of Lewis
Mumford's Technics and Civilization

17.30
Claus Pias (Vienna):
What's German about German Media Theory?

18.30
Joachim Paech (Constance):
Popular Fiction, Popular Art and New Media. On the Way to
Medienwissenschaft in 1970s' Germany

19.30
Exhibition & Screening:
Harald Hauswald: Photographs
Marc Thümmler: Radfahrer

Saturday

10.00
Jeremy Shapiro (New York):
The Torture of Social Networking

11.00
Irmela Schneider (Cologne):
The Idea of Dissemination and the Avalanche of Statistics

12.30
Hartmut Winkler (Paderborn):
Geometry of Time. Media, Spatialization, and Reversibility

15.00
Peter Krapp (Irvine):
Play Money: game economics

16.00
Richard Cavell (Vancouver):
McLuhan Motion E-Motion

17.30
Nikolaus Wegmann (Princeton):
Media Studies and the Canon. Or: What to Cherish in Media?

18.30 Farewell
Dieter Mersch: Trip to Lemos

Info & Programm: www.emw.eu