Concordia University Professor Marc Steinberg will deliver the closing keynote for the "Platforms and the Moving Image" symposium, titled "From the Convenience Store to Netflix: Tracing a Lineage of 'Lean Convenience'" on October 29 at 2 p.m. (s.t.)

The assistant professor at Concordia University Ishita Tiwary will give the opening keynote for the symposium "Platforms and the Moving Image" entitled "Streaming Platforms and the Indian Context: Infrastructural and Industrial Specifics" on October 27 at 6 p.m. (s.t.).

The public online talk by our Mercator Fellow Abigail De Kosnik will take place on Monday, July 11, 2022.

The public online talk by our Mercator Fellow Michelle Cho will take place on Monday, June 27, 2022.

Mercator Fellow Leen Engelen held a virtual lecture on "The Panoramic Image" on Monday, November 29, 2021.

Mercator Fellow Haidee Wasson held a virtual lecture on "Portable Film Formats. Histories of a Dynamic Interface" on June 15, at 6pm (CET).

Our Mercator Fellow Ulrike Bergermann held a virtual lecture on "Property. Colonial Histories and Messages to the Future" on March 29th at 6pm (CET).

Mer­ca­tor Fellow Rebecca Schneider will hold a vir­tual lec­ture on "Shoaling in the Sea of History: Africans Who Fly and the Aesthetics of More-Than-Human Possibility" on Decem­ber 14, 2020, 6pm.

Mercator Fellow Shane Denson held a virtual lecture on "post-cinematic bodies" on November 23, 2020.

The conference aims to explore the groundwork for theorizing implicit epistemic templates configured by film forms and techniques. It is an attempt to expose inconspicuous cinematic performers shaping daily activities and modes of observation, especially where one least expects to encounter films.

On February 10, Edmond (Edo) Ernest dit Alban will give a talk on "Recycling Practices in the Japanese Anime Industry," raising the question what happens when the mobility of moving images joins the daily pedestrian motion of fan communities?

On February 5, author and curator Joshua Simon will give a talk on "Metastability" at the MUSEUM MMK FÜR MODERNE KUNST.

On December 16, 2019 Dan Streible (NYU Cinema Studies / Orphan Film Symposium) will give a talk on "Orphan Film Historiography: Newsreel Outtakes as Source and Method."

On November 25, 2019 our Mercator Fellow Zach Blas will give a public talk on "Informatic Opacity and The Cage of Information."

The Graduiertenkolleg invites you to a special audiovisual installation of Jean-Luc Godard’s latest film Le livre d’image.