Title: Nineteenth-Century Transmedia Practices

Description: https://anglistik.univie.ac.at/research/conferences/nineteenth-century-transmedia-practices/
Nineteenth-Century Transmedia Practices
International Symposium

30th January – 1st February 2020

Organizers:
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Monika Pietrzak-Franger
(University of Vienna, Austria) and
Prof. Dr. Christina Meyer (FU Berlin, Germany)

While transmediality is a recent concept, it is also a historical practice. This international symposium aims to address this historicity, with particular focus on the long nineteenth century (ca. 1780 –1920), a century that famously saw the birth of the mass media and brought the “frenzy of the visible” (J.-L. Comolli 1980). Tracing the processes, economies, and technologies involved in transmedia practices and the aesthetics of expansion and transgression in the long nineteenth century will allow international experts – from media, cultural, and literary studies along with other disciplines – to spotlight specific configurations in the past and their reconfigurations in our present moment.

Date: 30 January 2020 11:00 am EST