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). graduate students from Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Columbia University, and Princeton University.

Keynote Lecture by Jonathan Crary (Columbia University)
On the Persistence of Spectacle
7.00 pm – 9.00 pm

Welcome and Introduction by Stefan Andriopoulos

Moderated by Brian Larkin

The medium of print has often been constructed as a medium of knowledge and Enlightenment. This panel will complicate our idealized accounts of book history by contrasting the history of print with the history of paperwork, filing systems, and bureaucracies.

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)

Moderated by Nikolaus Wegmann

Media mark their own time and the temporality inherent in media may also shape our written historiographies of media. Yet, at the same time, the measuring and conception of time is in itself subject to history and shaped by the introduction of technical instruments.

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 by
Joseph Vogl (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin / Princeton University)
Taming Time: Media of Financialization
6.00 pm – 8.00 pm

Moderated by Thomas Y. Levin

Moderated by Stefan Andriopoulos

In what ways do religions and other cultural processes form part of the a priori that give rise to media? This panel will explore the interaction between technical media and religious imagination by analyzing and contrasting materialities of culture and technology.

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)

Moderated by Reinhold Martin

The Archaeology of Media, the cultural history of early cinema, and the historical study of Communications constitute different modes of writing the history of material technologies. This panel will explore the diverging and overlapping methods of these approaches to the question of how we can write the history of media.

Tom Gunning (University of Chicago)
Time Image and Motion: Materialities of the Moving Image
[Cancelled due to illness]

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)