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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!

CFP: Stanford-Leuphana Summer Academy on Humanities and Media 2020: “Technologies of Bureaucracy: Before and After the Digital Turn”

Stanford-Leuphana Summer Ac… by medieninitiative on Scribd

I am happy to announce the call for papers for the 2nd annual Stanford-Leuphana Summer Academy on Humanities and Media, which will take place June 22-26, 2020 in Berlin!

The topic this year is “Technologies of Bureaucracy: Before and After the Digital Turn!”

Our faculty and guest speakers this year are:

  • Timon Beyes (Sociology of Organisation and Culture, Leuphana)
  • Wendy Chun (New Media, Vancouver)
  • Shane Denson (Film and Media Studies, Stanford)
  • Monika Dommann (History, Zurich)
  • Marisa Galvez (French, Italian, and German Studies, Stanford)
  • Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht (Comparative Literature, Stanford)
  • Robin Holt (Organization Studies, Copenhagen)
  • Karla Oeler (Film and Media Studies, Stanford)
  • Claus Pias (History and Epistemology of Media, Leuphana)
  • Hito Steyerl (Experimental Film and Video, Berlin)
  • Peter Stohschneider (Medieval Studies, Munich) tbc
  • Fred Turner (Communication, Stanford)

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

Talks and Events: Germany/Switzerland, June-July 2019

Germany-Switzerland-June-July-2019

This summer, I will be spending a month in Germany, along with a short trip to Switzerland, for a series of talks and other events. Here is the full list:

June 21: “The Algorithmic Nickelodeon” — Screening and presentation at symposium on “Videographic Criticism: Aesthetics and Methods of the Video Essay,” ACUD-Kino Berlin

June 23-28: Stanford-Leuphana Summer Academy 2019: “Against Presentism” — at Stanford Berlin Campus

June 26, 6pm: “Desktop Horror: Screening Fear/Fearing Screens” — Presentation at the JFK Institute for North American Studies, Freie Universität Berlin

June 29: “Discorrelation and Seamfulness” — Presentation at the media-philosophical workshop on “Reflexivity in Digital Media,” Zürcher Hochschule der Künste, Zurich

July 1-19: Research Fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Study on Media Cultures of Computer Simulation — Leuphana University, Lüneburg

July 3: “Images of Discorrelation” — Presentation in the Media Cultures of Computer Simulation/Center for Digital Cultures Evening Colloquium Series, Leuphana University, Lüneburg

July 10: “Post-Cinematic Realism” — Presentation in the Sprache, Migration, und Vielfalt series at the Leibniz Universität Hannover

Images of Discorrelation — MECS/CDC, Leuphana University Lüneburg

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On July 3, 2019, I will be giving a talk titled “Images of Discorrelation” at the Center for Digital Cultures/Institute for Advanced Studies on Media Cultures of Computer Simulation at the Leuphana University in Lüneburg, Germany, in the context of a research fellowship I’ll be doing there this summer. Thanks to Florian Hoof, Claus Pias, and everyone at CDC/MECS for making this happen!

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