Dialogical Imaginations: Debating Aisthesis as Social Perception, Biopolitics, and New Ideas of Humanism, Forschungsatelier, Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt.

“The future cannot be predicted”, stated film director and author Alexander Kluge on the occasion of the premiere of Reinhard Jirgl’s futuristic novel “Nothing of You on Earth” (Nichts von euch auf Erden) at the Kammerspiele. But it presents plenty of opportunity for speculation! During an evening at Kammer 2 we will present the film visions, utopias and horror scenarios of students at the Munich University of Film – moderated and put into context by film expert Florian Leitner from the Humboldt University Berlin. No Future? [in German]

A  panel discussion about academic careers. With Simone Raatz, Ulrich Rüdiger, Martina Schraudner, Karl Sebastian Mandel and Florian Leitner.

Recorded on 04.05.2015 at KörberForum, Hamburg. [more]

Broadcast on 09.05.2015, 14:05-15:00, on Deutschlandfunk. [more] [AUDIO FILE]

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A lecture performance about the medium of Super 8. With Fridolin Schley and Florian Leitner. Presented by Maximilian Dorner. Lost Weekend, Munich.

 

Fiktionseffekte – Mediale Praxen zwischen Realität und Fiktion, Forschungskolloquium, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt.

My dissertation Medienhorror – Mediale Angst im Film / Media Horror – Media Anxiety in Films has been nominated for the final round of the Deutscher Studienpreis. (Updated press releases below.)

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[PRESS RELEASE: Freie Universität]

Typus und Person: Wie man dem Menschen gerecht wird, Forschungsatelier, Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt.

 

27. Film- und Fernsehwissenschaftliches Kolloquium, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München.