KEYNOTES
The 1970s Plant Craze and the Cybernetic Paradigm.
Teresa Castro (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3)

Cinematic Guerrillas in Mao’s China.
Jie Li (Harvard University)

Reconsidering Minor Cinema: René Laloux, Félix Guattari, and
the Machinery of Signs.
Henning Schmidgen (Bauhaus University Weimar)

PANELS
Directions
Re-envisioning Industrial “Knowhow”: Cinema and Tacit Knowledge in Republican China.
Hongwei Thorn Chen (Tulane University)

Recursions: Jurassic Park and Fractal Geometry.
Oliver Gaycken (University of Maryland)

“Implicit Conceptual Structures”: The Nonhuman Dimension.
Benoît Turquety (University of Lausanne)

Templates
Sci-Fi in Hollywood and Nollywood: Avatar and Kajola
Conspicuous Inequalities in Filmmaking Practices.
Nancy King (University of Jos)

Supercut Politics: Movie Trailers as Templates for Political
Advertising.
Felix Simon (University of Oxford) and Vinzenz Hediger (Goethe University Frankfurt)

Embodied Engagements: Notes on Youth and Womanhood in Malayalam Cinema.
Anupama Surendranath (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay)

Cities
Tracking Movement and Fluidity in the Tech-Speculative
Platform City
Benjamin Gerdes (Royal Institute of Art Stockholm)

Nipped in the Bud
Philipp Röding (Goethe University Frankfurt)

Sciences
Elastics of the Film Mouth.
Andrea Gyenge (University of Toronto)

Visualizing the Cosmos: Tacit Cinematic Knowledge
in Astronomy.
Jelena Rakin (University of Zurich)

“When Pregnancy Becomes a Moving Picture”: Multivocity
of Tacit Cinematic Knowledge in Fetal Ultrasonography.
Claire Salles (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3)

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DISCUSSIONS

Sept 24

3:00—3:20 pm
Henning Schmidgen
Moderation: Vinzenz Hediger

4:00—4:30 pm
Hongwei Thorn Chen, Oliver Gaycken, Benoît Turquety
Moderation: Rebecca Puchta

5:30—6:00 pm
Vinzenz Hediger, Nancy King, Felix Simon,
Anupama Surendranath
Moderation: Marin Reljic

Sept 25

4:00—4:30 pm
Andrea Mariani, Haritha Ramachandran, Takuya Tsunoda
Moderation: Guilherme Machado

5:00—5:20 pm
Benjamin Gerdes, Philipp Röding
Moderation: Philipp Keidl

6:00—6:20 pm
Jie Li
Moderation: Weihong Bao

Sept 26

3:00—3:20 pm
Teresa Castro
Moderation: Sophia Gräfe

4:00—4:30 pm
Andrea Gyenge, Jelena Rakin, Claire Salles
Moderation: Laliv Melamed

5:30—6:00 pm
Vinzenz Hediger, Kristina Köhler, Marc Siegel
Moderation: Rebecca Boguska and Philipp Röding