Ein Workshop am Graduiertenkolleg »Mediale Historiographien« zu den bewegten Bildern der Wissenschaften und den Schnittmengen von Filmwissenschaft und Wissenschaftsgeschichte.

Programm
Donnerstag, 5. Mai 2011

14 Uhr 
Karl Sierek (Jena): Opening Remarks

14.30 Uhr 
Vinzenz Hediger (Frankfurt/Main): Completely Useless Now: Film, Behavior, and Observation in the Post-Cinematic Age

15.30 Uhr
Janina Wellmann (Tel Aviv): Film in Early Embryology, 1900-1950

17 Uhr 

David A. Kirby (Manchester): Fantastically Natural: Scientific Films as Special Effects in Contemporary Cinema

Evening Lecture
19 Uhr 
Scott Curtis (Evanston): On Magnification

Freitag, 6. Mai 2011

10 Uhr
Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece (Evanston): Spaces of Seeing: Scientific Visions in the »Neutralized« Movie Theater

10.45 Uhr

Alexander M. Thimons (Evanston): »A Panel of Experts«: Immediacy and Objectivity in 1950s Science Television

12 Uhr 
Susanne Wagner (Weimar): Interface: Editing as Scientific Practice in Harun Farocki's Works

14 Uhr 

Roundtable Discussion

Die Vorträge und Diskussionen finden in englischer Sprache statt.

Science studies and film studies have something in common: a growing interest in films made for scientific research, training, or education. Problems of scientific representation have preoccupied historians and philosophers of science for some time, but lately some have been intrigued by the role of moving images in articulating these issues. Meanwhile, historians and theorists of film have recently recognized the importance of science for a complete understanding of cinema, from its scientific origins to the popularity of scientific images in art and education. Yet so far, work on “science and film” has emphasized one side or the other of that equation, depending on the discipline: science studies generally focuse on the scientific context of production and consumption, while film studies emphasize the cinematic framework. Alone, neither approach is sufficient to study this complex and hybrid form. So this conference will bring to the Graduiertenkolleg a selection of leading scholars from these two disciplines in order to explicitly discuss questions of method and discipline in the study of moving scientific images and their role in the visual cultures of science, art, education, and entertainment.

Konzept: Scott Curtis (Department of Radio/Television/Film, Northwestern
University, Evanston; Gastwissenschaftler am GK Mediale Historiographien)

Informationen & Kontakt:
Daniel Eschkötter
daniel.eschkoetter[at]uni-weimar.de 
www.mediale-historiographien.de