2018-19 Program

All events have been generously supported by the Arts and Humanities Division. 

 

Spring 2019 

5 Feb 2019  Henning Trüper (University Researcher, Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies)

Lecture: Media Theory, Philology, and the History of Disciplines    abstract | poster 

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12 Feb 2019  David Joseph Wrisley (NYU Abu Dhabi, Associate Professor of Digital Humanities) 

Lecture: The Geolocation of Culture: On the Virtual in Mobile Spatial Humanities Practices  abstract | poster 

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20 Feb 2019  Siegfried Zielinski (Berlin University of Arts, Professor for Archaeology & Variantology of the Arts & Media; EGS Saas Fee, Michel-Foucault-Professor for Techno-Aesthetics and Media Archaeology)

Lecture: Expanded Hermeneutics: Media Studies for the 21st century  abstract | poster 

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21 Feb 2019  Siegfried Zielinski (Berlin University of Arts, Professor for Archaeology & Variantology of the Arts & Media; EGS Saas Fee, Michel-Foucault-Professor for Techno-Aesthetics and Media Archaeology) 

Workshop: A conversation on German Media Theory and History 

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11 March 2019  George Blaustein (Assistant Professor, University of Amsterdam)

Lecture: Of Trump and Textbooks: Notes on Teaching US History Outside the US  abstract | poster 

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30 April 2019  Masha Kirasirova (NYU Abu Dhabi, Assistant Professor of History)

Lecture: A Tashkent Spectacle: 1960s Soviet Central Asian Cinema for the Afro-Asian World  abstract | poster 

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28 May 2019  Stefan Tetzlaff (Tandem Fellow in the History of Knowledge & Knowledge Cultures, German Historical Institute Washington, DC) 

Lecture: Cold War Expertise and Infrastructure: German Aid and India’s National Development   abstract 

 
Fall 2018

 

2 Oct 2018  Arjun Appadurai (NYU New York, Goddard Professor in Media, Culture and Communication)  

Lecture: Europe’s Migration Crisis and the Aftermath of the Enlightenment  poster

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3 Oct 2018  Arjun Appadurai (NYU New York, Goddard Professor in Media, Culture and Communication)  

Workshop: The Mediatic City   poster

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6 Nov 2018  Patrick Lichty (Zayed University Abu Dhabi, Assistant Professor of Animation)

Lecture: Alternate Realities: 25 Years of Media Art, VR, Performance and Found Processes  poster

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27 Nov 2018  Pedro Monaville (NYU Abu Dhabi, Assistant Professor of History)

Lecture: Postal Communications, Distant Mediations and the Congolese Political Imagination  poster

 

Last update: 30 October 2019