With presentations by graduate students from Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Columbia University, and Princeton University

Tyler Whitney (Columbia University)
Stereoscopic Travel: Image—Text—Empire

Grant Wythoff (Princeton University)
Aerophone, Telephot, Hypnobioscope:
Hugo Gernsback and the Science Fictionality of Media

Jan Philip Müller (Bauhaus-Universität Weimar)
Epistemic Things of Sound Film

Ginger Nolan (Columbia University)
The Mind of Brightness in the Heart of Darkness:
How Media Has Mediated between the First and Third Worlds

[Coffee Break]

Jeffrey Kirkwood (Princeton University)
Influential Machines: Magic Lantern,
Cinematograph, and the ‘Beeinflussungsapparat’

Linda Waack (Bauhaus-Universität Weimar)
The Amateur and the Memory of Touch

Aarti Sethi (Columbia University)
Imperial Endgames: Cinema, Violence, and the Everyday