Stefan Tetzlaff (Tandem Fellow in the History of Knowledge & Knowledge Cultures, German Historical Institute Washington, DC) 28 May 2019 Lecture: Cold War Expertise and Infrastructure: West German Aid and India’s National Development Abstract: Why and how did development aid – as we know it today – emerge during the Cold War? The talk addresses the… Read more Tetzlaff Cold War
Siegfried Zielinski (Professor for Archaeology & Variantology of the Arts & Media at Berlin University of Arts; EGS Saas Fee, Michel-Foucault-Professor for Techno-Aesthetics and Media Archaeology) 20 Feb 2019 Lecture: Expanded Hermeneutics: Media Studies for the 21st Century Abstract: In this lecture I would also address my own theoretical heritage with the Berlin Institute of Language in the Technical… Read more Zielinski Expanded Hermeneutics
Henning Trüper (Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies) 5 Feb 2019 Lecture: Media Theory, Philology, and the History of Disciplines Abstract: The talk discusses strange interferences of older humanities paradigms, Particularly philology, in the history of the theorization of media. I will argue that philology, in its nineteenth-century manifestation, was above all a project of rendering the explication… Read more Trüper, Media Theory, Philology…