Workshop 
Friday, 3 February 2017, 11am-6pm, Karlstad University 
Room: Minerva, 12C608

What is media archaeology (good for)? In recent years, the term has become something of a catch-phrase, being employed all the way from an expanded cinema history to techno-materialist hardware studies. We have invited international experts to debate the use and value of an approach that wants to investigate the epistemological basis of our current media situation. The aim of the workshop is to explore how the concept has transformed during the transfer between different countries and disciplines (film, media, literature, art, cultural studies) – and how it at the same time can be used to connect varying research contexts.

Programme:
11am           Introduction Malte Hagener, RJ/Humboldt Fellow at Karlstad University

11.15am       Pelle Snickars (Umeå) – “Swedish Media Theory?”

12.00pm       Lunch

1.00pm          Sebastian Gießmann (Siegen) – “Against Media Archaeology”

2.00pm           Liv Hausken (Oslo) – “Why Media Archaeology?”

3pm                Break

3.15pm            Round Table: “Reports from the Field”, chaired by John Lynch and Theo Röhle

5pm                  Reception

6pm                  End

Please register with John Lynch ( john.lynch@kau.se) until 15 January.

Organised jointly by the research groups KuFo and Geomedia, Karlstad University.