Here is the final program for our symposium “Imagining Media Change” (print version above, and links to each speaker’s abstract below):
Imagining Media Change — June 13, 2013, Leibniz Universität Hannover
9:30 — Welcome, Ruth Mayer (Chair of American Studies, Hannover)
9:45 – 11:15 — Keynote I, Jussi Parikka (Southampton): “Cultural Techniques of Cognitive Capitalism: On Change and Recurrence”
11:15 – 11:45 — coffee break
11:45 – 13:15 — Panel I:
11:45 — Florian Groß (Hannover): “The Only Constant is Change: American Television and Media Change Revisited”
12:15 — Bettina Soller (Göttingen): “How We Imagined Electronic Literature and Who Died: Looking at Fan Fiction to See What Became of the Future of Writing”
12:45 — Shane Denson (Hannover): “On NOT Imagining Media Change”
13:15 – 15:00 — lunch break
15:00 – 16:30 — Keynote II, Wanda Strauven (Amsterdam): “Pretend (&) Play: Children as Media Archaeologists”
16:30 – 17:00 — coffee break
17:00 – 18:30 — Panel II:
17:00 — Christina Meyer (Hannover): “Technology – Economy – Mediality: Nineteenth Century American Newspaper Comics”
17:30 — Ilka Brasch (Hannover): “Facilitating Media Change: The Operational Aesthetic as a Receptive Mode”
18:00 — Alexander Starre (Berlin): “Evolving Technologies, Enduring Media: Material Irony in Octave Uzanne’s ‘The End of Books'”
19:30 — symposium dinner
