Small Forms in Circulation: Infrastructures, Practices, Publics
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin | Main Building, 1st Floor | Room 2070 A
Dec 28-30, 2024
Organization: Gesche Mirjam Beyer, Claas Oberstadt, Marvin Renfordt, Morten Schneider, Anja Shchetvina
Programme
Thursday, 28.11.: Infrastructures
14:00-14:30 Opening
14:30-15:30 Keynote
Sebastian Gießmann (Siegen University): Infrastructures and/as environments: practices and ecologies of circulation
Moderation: Anya Shchetvina
15:30-15:45 Break
15:45-16:45 Subverting infrastructures
Moderation: Anya Shchetvina
Marvin Renfordt (HU Berlin): How to smuggle queer personals through the postal system: Die Freundschaft (1919-1933)
P. Arun (Krea University): Gandhi, telegrams and anti-colonial struggle: circulation of short telegraphic messages in late colonial Inda (1920-1940s)
16:45-17:00 Break
17:00-18:00 Cultural Infrastructures
Moderation: Claas Oberstadt
Camilla Salvaneschi (Iuav University of Venice): Contraction and expansion: e-flux announcements between small textual form and Infrastructure of critique
Carlos Salazar Wagner (University of Florence): New forms of exchange in the Florentine alternative art scene in the 70s
Friday, 29.11.: Practices
10:00-11:00 Keynote
Filippo de Vivo (University of Oxford): From streets to archive: pasquinades and libels between re-mediation and de-mediation
Moderation: Morten Schneider
11:00-11:15 Break
11:15-12:45 Hybrid Media of Early Modern Information Exchange
Moderation: Johann Gartlinger
Antonio Pattori (University of Oxford): Selling a Renaissance conspiracy: disinformation and popular politics around sixteenth-century Italian political plots and assassinations
Morten Schneider (HU Berlin): Magical trouble in the streets of Paris: The diffusion, remediation and interpretation fo the Rosicrucian placards (1623)
Jameson Kısmet Bell (Boğaziçi University): Of shite and diamonds: uncommon materials and technologies of early 18th century European short literature in The Merry Thought (1731)
12:45-13:00 Break
13:00-14:00 Epistolary practices beyond ink and paper
Moderation: Gesche Beyer
Hole Rößler (Herzog August Library): Sending pictures – creating images: the circulation of portrait prints in the Early Modern Republic of Letters
Christian Marchlewitz (HU Berlin): A rock dwelling in a pebble: practises of enclosure in Kafka’s letters
14:00-15:30 Lunch Break
15:30-16:30 (Re)formatting children’s literature
Moderation: Franziska Teubert
Madeline Zehnder (HU Berlin): The habit-forming book: small forms and practices of imitation in 19th century American children’s literature
Sarah Pyke (Münster University): Frog and Toad Together: queer remediation and the cultural re-emergence of a children’s classic
16:30-16:45 Break
16:45-17:45 Evoking proximity on social media
Moderation: Anya Shchetvina
Henrik Wehmeier (University of Hamburg): Formatting the flow: the circulation of poetry on and beyond social media
Gesche Beyer (HU Berlin): Getting closer? Remediated forms of Holocaust commemoration in the Instagram project @eva.stories
Saturday, 30.11.: Publics
10:00-11:00 Keynote
Cait McKinney (Simon Fraser University): A Queer History of Blackouts
Moderation: Marvin Renfordt
11:00-11:15 Break
11:15-12:15 Collective worldmaking in the underground
Moderation: Claas Oberstadt
Ya’ara Gil-Glazer (Tel Hai College): “Sexual freedom, sexual tolerance and sexual generosity”: Suck underground magazine and the SELF community
Marie van Bömmel (HU Berlin): Popularizing feminism(s): an exhibition catalog as a catalyst of a social movement
12:15-12:30 Break
12:30-13:30 Small forms in colonial publics
Moderation: Chiara Sartor
Roman Alexander Barton (University of Freiburg): The making of the Irish public: affordances of small drama in Britain and Ireland, 1894-1916
Frank Newton (The Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz): Circulating graphic-visual markers: ornamentation in early 20th century pan-indigenous North American periodicals
13:30-14:00 Closing discussion