CFP: 2023 Stanford-Leuphana Academy for Media Studies — “Media and Cultural Change”

I am happy to announce the call for papers for the 4th annual Stanford-Leuphana Academy for Media Studies, which will again take place in Berlin (June 25-30, 2023)! 

The topic this year is “Media and Cultural Change”

Our core faculty this year are:

  • Timon Beyes (Sociology of Organisation and Culture, Leuphana)
  • Shane Denson (Film and Media Studies, Stanford)
  • Marisa Galvez (French, Italian, and German Studies, Stanford)
  • Karla Oeler (Film and Media Studies, Stanford)
  • Claus Pias (History and Epistemology of Media, Leuphana)
  • Fred Turner (Communication, Stanford)
  • Sybille Krämer (Philosophy, Leuphana)
  • Ruth Mayer (American Studies, Hannover)
  • Bernhard Siegert (History and Epistemology of Cultural Techniques, Weimar)

Special Guests:

  • Simon Denny (University of Fine Arts Hamburg)
  • Wolfgang Ernst (Media Studies, Humboldt University Berlin) — to be confirmed

As in previous years, travel and accommodation costs will be covered for graduate students accepted to the Academy, and there will be no additional fees for participation. So please consider applying and spread the word to qualified graduate students!

Claus Pias at Stanford

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Next week, media theorist Claus Pias, Professor for the Theory and History of Media at Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, will be visiting Stanford for a series of events: on Monday, October 23 (5:30 – 7:00pm), he will be delivering a public lecture titled “Between Information Aesthetics and Design Amplification,” which will be held in my home department of Art & Art History. (More info here.)

The following day, Tuesday, October 24 (11:30am – 1:00pm), he will be discussing his book Computer Game Worlds, which is newly translated into English, at a lunchtime event with the Digital Aesthetics Workshop. (See the poster below or find more info here.)

Claus Pias DAW poster