PROGRAM SCHEDULE

Friday, February 24th

 

Breakfast/Registration (9:30 – 10:00)

3335 Dwinelle Hall

 

Opening Remarks (10:00 – 10:15)

3335 Dwinelle Hall

 

Panel 1: Syncing Media Forms (10:15 – 11:45)

3335 Dwinelle Hall

 

Nicholas Courtman (University of Cambridge), “ein leichtes delay –”: Ästhetische Eigenzeit and Resisting Social Acceleration in Kathrin Röggla’s wir schlafen nicht

Tyler Schroeder (University of Chicago), Sie erkennt die Krankheit, ehe es zu spät ist: Embodied Temporalities of Cancer in Krebs (1930)

Nikolas Lund (Independent scholar), Off The Grid: Asynchronous Moments in Contemporary Pop Music

 

[LUNCH BREAK]

 

Panel 2: Syncing Bodies and Voices (1:30 – 3:00)

3335 Dwinelle Hall

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Jacob Mallinson Bird (University of Oxford), Drag Lip-Sync: A Voice from the Silence

Randi Evans (University of California, Berkeley), Choreographic Multiplicity: Synchronicity and Abstraction in the Rockettes

Inesa Khatkovskaya (University of Toronto), Neoliberal Dance: Adrift in Berlin

 

[BREAK]

 

Keynote address by Christoph Cox (4:00 – 5:20)​

Synaesthetics: Sound, Image, and Materialism

Heyns Room, Faculty Club

 

Opening Reception (5:20 – 7:30)

Heyns Room, Faculty Club

 

Saturday, February 25th​

 

Workshop/Breakfast (9:30 – 10:30)

370 Dwinelle

Presentism, Synchronization, and the Media: Hartog and the Crisis of History

Espen Ytreberg (University of Oslo), Bodhisattva Chattopadhya (University of Oslo) and Marijn Rombouts (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen)

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Panel 3: Syncing Virtual Societies (10:45 – 11:45)

370 Dwinelle

Kumars Salehi (University of California, Berkeley), Threads of Enlightenment: Adorno and political subjectivity in the era of social media

Jonas Teupert (University of California, Berkeley), Sharing One's Life: Siegfried Kracauer and the Present of Instagram

 

[LUNCH]

 

Keynote address by Helge Jordheim (1:30 – 2:50)

The World in and out of Sync: Looking back at the long 18th century

370 Dwinelle

 

[BREAK]

 

Panel 4: Syncing Nonhuman Temporalities (3:15 – 4:45)

370 Dwinelle

Gary Kafer (University of Chicago), Spectral Synchronicities: The Contemporary Body in Preemptive Cybernetic Control

Aaron Eldridge (University of California, Berkeley), The Time of the Divine: Christianity, Secularism, Absence

David Michael Lamme (University of California, Irvine), The Mountain’s Refrain: Rhythmanalysis and the films of Werner Herzog

 

[BREAK]

 

Roundtable Discussion and Forum (5:15 – 6:00)

370 Dwinelle

Christoph Cox (Hampshire College), Karen Feldman (University of California, Berkeley), Helge Jordheim (University of Oslo, University of Trondheim), Chenxi Tang (University of California, Berkeley)