Workshop, Friday, 3 February 2017, 11am-6pm, Karlstad University, Room: Minerva, 12C608
What is media archaeology (good for)? In recent years, the term has become something of a catch-phrase, being employed all the way from an expanded cinema history to techno-materialist hardware studies. We have invited international experts to debate the use and value of an approach that wants to investigate the epistemological basis of our current media situation. The aim of the workshop is to explore how the concept has transformed during the transfer between different countries and disciplines (film, media, literature, art, cultural studies) – and how it at the same time can be used to connect varying research contexts.
Programme:
11am
Introduction Malte Hagener, RJ/Humboldt Fellow at Karlstad University
11.15am
Pelle Snickars (Umeå) – “Swedish Media Theory?”
12.00pm
Lunch
1.00pm
Sebastian Gießmann (Siegen) – “Against Media Archaeology”
2.00pm
Liv Hausken (Oslo) – “Why Media Archaeology?”
3pm
Break
3.15pm
Round Table: “Reports from the Field”, chaired by John Lynch and Theo Röhle
5pm
Reception
6pm
End
Please register with John Lynch (john.lynch@kau.se) until 15 January.
Organised jointly by the research groups KuFo and Geomedia, Karlstad University.
