Geist and the Machine
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P R O G R A M
Friday, March 15th
8:30 am – 9:00 am Breakfast
9:10 am - 9:20 am Welcoming Remarks, Jehnna Lewis and Roksana Filipowska
9:20 am – 9:30 am Introduction to Panel 1
9:30 am – 11:15 am PANEL 1
Experiencing the Machine Respondent: Professor Eric Jarosinski
Joseph D. Hammett, UC Irvine, European Languages and Studies: “The Anxiety and Hyperstimulation of Experience in Modernity:
Robert Reinert's Nerven (1919)"
Lisa Sarti, Hunter College, Department of Romance Languages: “German Experimental Filmmaking and Pirandello’s Aesthetic Shift”
Christian Voller, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Philologische Fakultät: “’Der explodierende Bürger' Charlie Chaplin and the
‘Konservative Revolution’”
11:15 am – 11:25 am Coffee Break
11:25 am – 11:35 am Introduction to Panel 2
11:35 am – 12:30 pm PANEL 2
Mechanizing the Mind Respondent: Professor Liliane Weissberg
Jeffrey Kirkwood, Princeton University, Department of German: “Bad Analogies: Early German Cinema and the Exteriorization of
Psychic Operations”
Mordechai Hodkin, Northwestern University, Department of German: “The Timeless Posthuman of Friedrich Kittler”
12:30 pm – 1:30 pm Lunch
1:30 pm – 2:45pm Keynote Speaker: Prof. Dr. Gertrud Koch, Freie Universität Berlin: “Film as Experiment in Animation: Are Films
Experiments on Human Beings?”
2:45 pm – 3:15 pm Coffee Break
3:20 pm – 3:30 pm Introduction to Panel 3
3:30 pm – 5:15 pm PANEL 3
Lingering Ghosts and Machines Respondent: Matthew Handelman
Meredith North, University of Pittsburgh, Department of the History of Art and Architecture: “Silencing Machine: Peter Roehr’s
Film Montages as Queer Disavowal”
Bridget Swanson, University of Pennsylvania, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures: “Liberating the Canon:
Christopher Stark’s Julietta and the Spatial Politics of Adaptation”
Danny Snelson, University of Pennsylvania, English Department: “Reveal Source Code: The Thousand Platforms of Dr. Mabuse”
5:30 pm – 6:15 pm Light Reception
