Chronopolitics

The Program of Film and Media Studies and the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures present

Chronopolitics: A Symposium

Humanities Quadrangle, Rm. 134

How might thinking through different temporalities offer us new insights into big issues: environmental change, armed conflict, historical narrativization? What can renewed attention to temporal scales—as ambivalent as the notion of scale might be, with its implicit suggestion of a top-down hierarchy—do for our understanding of an event? Can it help us rethink chronologies, synchronicity, and connectivity in our mediatized age?

Join us for an afternoon with some of the foremost thinkers on cultural techniques, media theory, resonance and the moving image, Professors Geoff Winthrop-Young and Lutz Koepnick, as we debate these issues.

**Geoff Winthrop-Young will be hosting a workshop and Lutz Koepnick will be joining a seminar at 9AM. For more information to join, please contact janice.cheon@yale.edu (link sends e-mail).

Schedule

Lunch at 1 PM

Fatima Naqvi: Welcome 2 PM

Janice Cheon: Introduction 2:10 PM

Geoff Winthrop-Young (University of British Columbia): “Scorched Time: On the Nazi Chronobscene” 2:30 PM

Lutz Koepnick (Vanderbilt University): “Listen like a Glacier: Art, Ice, Climate Change” 4:00 PM

Reception at 5:30 PM