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Permanent Seminar on Histories of Film Theories Conference 2014 in Frankfurt, August 20-24, 2014
Critical Theory, Media and Film: Exploring the Frankfurt Legacy
An international conference organized by the Institute for Theater, Film and Media at Goethe-Universität and the Institut für Sozialforschung, Frankfurt, in cooperation with the Permanent Seminar on Histories of Film Theories, August 20-24, 2014.
Frankfurt with its university and research institutes, in particular the Institut für Sozialforschung, has a legitimate claim to being one of the founding places of contemporary critical film and media theory. Combining philosophical aesthetics, a focus on media technology and a sociological outlook, authors such as Adorno and Horkheimer, Kracauer, Benajmin and later Habermas and Kluge have made significant contributions to the study of media culture and helped pave the way for the emergence of film and media studies as a critical discipline. In film studies in particular, authors such as Miriam Hansen, Gertrud Koch and Heide Schlüpmann have continued to develop the framework of critical theory to create new avenues in the study of film and media culture.
On the occasion of Goethe Universität’s centennial celebrations in 2014, the international conference ‘Critical Film and Media Theory. Exploring the Frankfurt Legacy’ proposes to assess the historical contribution and contemporary perspectives of a critical theory approach to film and media culture.
Contributions are welcome on various aspects of critical theory, film and media, from the impact of critical theory on the history of film theory and media studies to debates about the media and politics to the impact of critical theory on postcolonial, queer and other recent strands of cultural theory in film and media studies.
The conference program will feature a number of keynote lectures and other plenary events, as well as a conference dinner.
A call for papers will circulate internationally in May or June 2013. The conference language is English with simultaneous translation provided for selected contributions in German.
The conference is hosted by the Institute for Theater, Film and Media at Goethe Universität and the Institut für Sozialforschung in cooperation with the Permanent Seminar on Histories of Film Theories (filmtheories.org).
Contact and further information:
Prof. Dr. Vinzenz Hediger, Institute for Theater, Film and Media, Goethe-Universität ([log in to unmask])
Prof. Dr. Axel Honneth, director, Institut für Sozialforschung ([log in to unmask])
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