“Workshop: On Protective Media” (Humanities Program with the Film and Media Studies Program)

Event time: 
Friday, March 29, 2024 - 9:00am to 5:00pm
Location: 
HQ 134 See map
320 York Street
Event description: 

Join The Humanities Program and the Film and Media Studies Program for a worskhop, ‘On Protective Media’.

Program

8.30 Breakfast 
9.00 Pauline LeVen (Yale): Introduction 
 
PROTECTION AND ENVIRONMENT 
9.15 Richard Grusin (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee): Protective Mediation
10.00 Inga Pollmann (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill): Cameras, Guns, Drones, and Point of View: Aesthetics of Environmentality 
10.45 Coffee break 
11.15 Olga Moskatova (Offenbach University): Ecologies of Protection: On the Production of Immune and Proper Spheres 
 
12.00 Catered lunch 
1.00 Katie Lofton (Yale): Introduction 
 
PROTECTION AND GOVERNMENTALITY 
1.15 Alexander Galloway (New York University): Keeping Guard
2.00 Francesco Zucconi (IUAV, Venice): Mediated Borders
2.45 Coffee break 
3.15 Roundtable: Crystal Feimster, Katie Lofton, Paul North, John Durham Peters (Yale) 
4.30 Conclusive remarks: Francesco Casetti 
(Yale) 
 
“Protection against stimuli is an almost more important function for the living organism than reception of stimuli.” - Sigmund Freud
 
Workshop supported by the The Edward J. and Dorothy Clarke Kempf Fund at Yale University