The Geocode of Media
Conference at the Collaborative Research Center “Media Upheavals”, University of Siegen, Germany

                                                                    

October 12th to 14th, 2006

 

Exposé

10/12/2006

 Thursday

Greeting
13.00
Rector Ralf Schnell (Siegen)

 Introduction
 13.15-13.30
Jörg Döring/Tristan Thielmann (Siegen)
Geocode of Media.
A position definition of the spatial turn

 Maps in media – maps as media

13.30-15.30
Jörg Dünne (Munich)
The map as a matrix of imagination.
On the history of a spatial medium
Robert Stockhammer (Berlin)
Literature in the topographic bureau

– coffee break –

16.00-18.00
Rolf F. Nohr (Brunswick)
Topographies of television
Judith Miggelbrink (Leipzig)
„Real“ und „un-real“ geographies, or:
How geographical are (spatial) visiotypes?

– coffee break –

 Evening speech
18.30
Scott McQuire (Melbourne)
The dilemma of public space in cities on the move: control space and ludic space

 

       Friday
 10/13/2006

Mega, media, cyber localities

8.30-10.30
Paul Reuber/Anke Strüver (Münster)
Spatialising-discourses in German print media.
Geopolitics after 9/11
Manfred Faßler (Frankfurt/M.)
Cybernetic localisms

– coffee break –

11.00-13.00
Saskia Sassen (Chicago)
The new centralities of mediated cities
Mike Crang (Durham)
home@Singapore.world:
The spatial imaginaries of a mediated world

– lunch –

Geographies of the social

14.00-16.00
Rudolf Stichweh (Lucerne)
Control and organisation of space.
Functional systems of world society
Markus Schroer (Darmstadt)
The space of society. Theoretical reflections on space as an object of sociology

– coffee break –

16.30-18.30
Niels Werber (Berlin)
Media of geopolitics or of global community?
Media and spaces of societies’ phrases of self-description
Benno Werlen (Jena)
Body, space and medial representation

– coffee break –
Evening speech
19.00 Edward Soja (Los Angeles)
New twists on the spatial turn
 

10/14/2006

 Saturday
 The future of the spatial turn

8.30-10.30
Roland Lippuner (Jena)
The stereogram of society.
Geographical perspectives after the spatial turn
Tom Holert (Berlin/Vienna)
Geography of excellence

– coffee break –

11.00-13.00
Stephan Günzel (Jena)
From spatial turn to topological turn
Erhard Schüttpelz (Siegen)
Lures of mappings and unmappings:
Lessons of the mediterrenian sea

 

 

 

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

     

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