Month: January 2022

CFP: 2022 Stanford-Leuphana Summer Academy on “Scale”

CFP Stanford-Leuphana Summe… by medieninitiative

Update: Deadline extended until March 15! (If you are unable to download or access the PDF above, please use this alternate link.)

I am happy to announce the call for papers for the 3rd annual Stanford-Leuphana Summer Academy on Humanities and Media, which — pandemic permitting — will again take place in Berlin (June 20-24, 2022)! 

The topic this year is “Scale”

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)
  • Melissa Gregg (Cultural Studies, Senior Principal Engineer, Intel)
  • Karla Oeler (Film and Media Studies, Stanford)
  • Claus Pias (History and Epistemology of Media, Leuphana)
  • Fred Turner (Communication, Stanford)
  • Mike Ananny (Communication and Journalism, USC)

Guest speaker: Kate Crawford (NYU)

As in previous years, 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!

SCREENTIME: An Exhibition of Desktop Videos

On display from January 6 to January 27, 2022 in Stanford’s McMurtry Building (home of the Department of Art & Art History) is SCREENTIME: An Exhibition of Desktop Videos.

The exhibition grows out of a collaboration between Stanford and Occidental College — between Shane Denson’s class “The Video Essay: Writing with Video about Media and Culture” and Allison de Fren’s “The Video Essay,” both of which were taught in Fall 2021.

Students in each class met online and worked through some of the more troubling aspects of online life, including online racism, radicalization, pornography, and politics. The resulting videos, all of which use the computer desktop as both a topic and a medium, reflect the troubled times of contemporary screentime, and the sonic cacophony in the exhibition space challenges viewers to come to terms with the ways that screens today compete for our attention.

Included in the exhibition are eleven remarkable videos:

I Love Kanye (2021) — D’Andre Jorge (sophomore, Stanford)

A Letter to My Younger Self, on the Dangers of the Internet (2021) — David Kolifrath (freshman, Occidental)

The Commercialization of Self Image (2021) — Ashton Berg (sophomore, Stanford)

Solace in Schadenfreude: r/HermanCainAward and Vaccine Misinformation (2021) — Tejas Narayanan (sophomore, Stanford)

A Brief Inquiry into Cultural Appropriation and Misogynoir Online (2021) — Micah Drigo (sophomore, Stanford)

Kids Content on YouTube (2021) — Finian Walsh (sophomore, Occidental)

Bots and Trolls and Hackers, Oh My! A Story of Russian Interference (2021) — Katherine Crandell (junior, Stanford)

Let’s Talk about Porn (2021) — Henry Liera (senior, Stanford)

Sustainable Brands and the Limits of “Radical Transparency” (2021) — Georgia Crawford (freshman, Occidental)

The Shallows of Hate (2021) — Ben Fischer (sophomore, Stanford)

Tiktok’s Devious Licks Trend (2021) — Zahir Choudhry (freshman, Occidental)