Schedule (Updated with Videos)
Friday, September 25
- 8:30 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.
- Arrival and check-in at the Park Shops Building, North Carolina State University
- 9:00 a.m. – 9:30 a.m.
- Welcome and introductory remarks
- 9:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.
- Panel I:
- (Moderator: Jeremy Packer, NC State University)
- The Birth of the “Neoliberal” City and its Media
James Hay, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (view the video) - Between privacy and control in urban spaces: Media discourses on the use of location aware technologies
Adriana de Souza e Silva and Jordan Frith, NC State University (view the video) - Materiality and Urban Communication: The Rhetoric of Communicative Spaces
Victoria Gallagher and Kenneth Zagacki, NC State University (view the video)
- 11:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
- Break
- 11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
- Panel II
- (Moderator: Victoria Gallagher, NC State University)
- Time and Materiality, or the Autonomy of the Peripheral
Marc Hansen, Duke University (view the video) - 8 Mile: Networked Decision Making
Jeff Rice, University of Missouri at Columbia (view the video)
- 1:00 p.m. - 2:15 p.m.
- Lunch
- Lunchtime presentation at 1:30
- The Documentality of Mme Briet’s Antelope
Bernd Frohmann, University of Western Ontario (view the video)
- 2:15 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
- Break
- 2:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
- Panel III
- (Moderator: Bill Kinsella, NC State University)
- Attention and Agency in the new Assemblage
J. Macgregor Wise, Arizona State University (view the video) - It changes Space and Time! Power-Chronography: A theory for the times
Sarah Sharma, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (view the video) - Emplaced mobility
Daniel M. Sutko and Stephen B. Crofts Wiley, NC State University (view the video)
- 4:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
- Break
- 4:30 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.
- Rolf Buchdahl Memorial Lecture sponsored by the NC State Program in Science, Technology, and Society
- Welcome and introductory remarks
- Mary Wyer, Assistant Dean for Interdisciplinary Studies and Interim Associate Dean for Research, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, NC State University
- Bill Kinsella, Director, Program in Science, Technology, and Society, NC State University
- The Rolf Buchdahl Memorial Lecture
- Beyond Modes, Beyond Media
Jennifer Daryl Slack, Michigan Technological University (view the video)
- 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
- Break
- 8:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m.
- Reception at the home of Myriam Bascuñan and Steve Wiley
Saturday, September 26
- 8:30 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.
- Arrival and Registration
- 9:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.
- Panel IV
- (Moderator: Kenneth Zagacki, NC State University)
- A Geography of War Commemoration on the Western Front
Carole Blair, Bill Balthrop, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Neil Michel, Axiom Photo Design (view the video) - The Politics of Sensational Privacy: Digital Mobility and the Forgotten Public
John Sloop, Vanderbilt University (view the video) - Pastoral Exhibition: The YMCA and the Film Education Movement
Ronald Walter Greene, University of Minnesota (view the video)
- 10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
- Panel V
- (Moderator: Stephen B. Crofts Wiley, NC State University)
- Goodbye Rabbit Ears: Visualizing and Mapping the US Digital TV Transition
Lisa Parks, University of California at Santa Barbara (view the video - Broadband on the Run: Mobile Privatization 2.0
Kathleen Oswald and Jeremy Packer, NC State University (view the video) - Media, Materiality, Mobility and the Trace
Ken Hillis, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (view the video)
- 12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.
- Lunchtime presentation at 12:45:
- Open Skies and Caribbean Flows: Materializing Airports, Border Surveillance, and Offshore Economies
Mimi Sheller, Drexel University (view the video)
- 1:30 p.m. – 1:45 p.m.
- Break
- 1:45 p.m. - 3:15 p.m.
- Panel VI
- (Moderator: David Rieder, NC State University)
- Vitalism, Animality, and the Material Grounds of Rhetoric
Byron Hawk, George Mason University (view the video) - Genre as a Vernacular Construct: Materializing Culture in Old and New Media
Carolyn R. Miller, Anna Turnage, and Nicholas Temple, NC State University (view the video) - The Cartographic Imagination and the Materiality of Spatializing Software
N. Katherine Hayles, Duke University (view the video)
- 3:15 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
- Break
- 3:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
- Madness, Media, Modernity, Metaphor, Materiality,
John Durham Peters, University of Iowa (view the video)
- 5:00 p.m.
- Closing Remarks
- Jeremy Packer and Steve Wiley, NC State University
- 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
- Break
- 8:00 p.m. – 11:00 p.m.
- Reception at the home of Jeremy Packer and Sarah Sharma