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2009 Symposium Poster

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