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Program

The conference takes place at: Deutscher Sprachatlas, Pilgrimstein 16, 35037 Marburg (Google Maps).

Registration is closed.

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Day 1

Thursday, November 17th, 2022
13:00 - 14:00 Arrival & Registration
14:00 - 14:30 Welcome
Sarah-Mai Dang (Philipps-Universität Marburg), Tim van der Heijden (Open University of the Netherlands)
14:30 - 15:00 Opening Keynote
Jane Gaines (Columbia University)
New Knowledge and the Digitization of Everything

15:00 – 16:15

Panel 1: Digital Objects and Critical Perspectives

Chair: Bregt Lameris (Open University of the Netherlands)

Franziska Heller (Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg) (canceled), Uli Rüdel (HTW Berlin) (canceled)
Framing Film Historic Influencer/s: Migrating Images between Restoration Ethics and Digital Media Culture

Casper Tybjerg (University of Copenhagen)
The Digitization of Silent Films and the Teaching of Film Historiography: Entanglements and Opportunities

Christian Gosvig Olesen (University of Amsterdam)
Visions of a Timeline: A Videographic, Tool Critical Perspective on the Media Suite’s Video Annotation Functionalities
16:15 - 16:45 Coffee Break

16:45 - 18:00

Panel 2: Data, Corpus, and Curation

Chair: Kai Matuszkiewicz (Philipps-Universität Marburg)

Alexandra Schneider (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz), Yvonne Zimmermann (Philipps-Universität Marburg)
Canon and Cleaning: Data Preparation in Digital Film History

Fabian Kling (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz)
Curating and Researching: A Case Study of Digital Film History

Mila Oiva (Tallinn University)
Exploring Digital Methods for Studying Newsreels
18:00 - 20:00 Reception

Day 2

Friday, November 18th, 2022
09:00 - 09:30 Arrival & Registration

09:30 - 10:45

Panel 3: Female Film Workers and Data Sources

Chair: Isadora Campregher Paiva (Goethe University Frankfurt)

Adelheid Heftberger (Bundesarchiv), Paul Duchesne (Technische Informationsbibliothek Hannover)
Finding Female Filmworkers in Wikidata: How to Query and Visualize Filmographic Records

Kate Saccone (University of Amsterdam)
(Re)Visioning Women’s Film History: The Women Film Pioneers Project as a Digital Feminist Film Historiographical Object

Sarah-Mai Dang (Philipps-Universität Marburg)
Desperately Seeking Evidence: Research Data Management and Women in Film History
10:45 - 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 - 12:15

Panel 4: Data Visualizations

Chair: Clara Auclair (University of Rochester/Université Paris Cité)

Marcus Burkhardt (University of Siegen), Skadi Loist (Film University Babelsberg)
Visualization in/as Digital Media Studies

Matthias Grotkopp (Freie Universität Berlin)
Catastrophe or Pointillism of Disaster? – Annotating and Visualizing Patterns of Ecological Imagination

Deb Verhoeven (University of Alberta, Canada)
A Stormy Signal Spread: Data, Disaster and Visual Depth
12:15 - 14:15 Lunch Break (on your own)

14:15 - 15:30

Panel 5: Teaching and Publishing

Chair: Julia Eckel (Paderborn University)

Josephine Diecke (Philipps-Universität Marburg), Malte Hagener (Philipps-Universität Marburg)
Managing Tools and Expectations: Dos and Don’ts of Teaching Digital Methods for Film Analysis and Film Historiography

Nicole Braida (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz), Frauke Pirk (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz)
Teaching an Approach to Small Gauge Formats with Digital Methods

Niels-Oliver Walkowski (University of Luxembourg)
Publishing Digital Research: The Diamond Open Access Way at Melusina Press
15:30 - 15:45 Coffee Break

15:45 - 17:00

Panel 6: Digital Tools and Scalable Methods

Chair: Nanne van Noord (University of Amsterdam)

Tim van der Heijden (Open University of the Netherlands), Lauren Tilton (University of Richmond) (online), Taylor Arnold (University of Richmond) (online)
Distant Viewing the Amateur Film Platform

Susan Aasman (University of Groningen), Tom Slootweg (University of Groningen)
Unit of Interest as Digital Hermeneutics: Moving beyond Formalism for Doing Cross-Media History

Julia Noordegraaf (University of Amsterdam)
A Scalable Perspective on Historical Cinema Cultures: Studying Movie Going in Amsterdam (1945-1975) with Digital Data and Tools
18:00 - 20:00 Conference Dinner (Bottega, self-paid) (GoogleMaps)

20:30 - 22:30

Film Screening (Capitol Filmkunsttheater Marburg) (GoogleMaps)

Cinema's First Nasty Women: "Queens of Destruction"

Video Introduction: Maggie Hennefeld (University of Minnesota), Laura Horak (Carleton University), and Elif Rongen-Kaynakçi (Eye Filmmuseum)

Chair: Kate Saccone (University of Amsterdam)

Day 3

Saturday, November 19th, 2022
09:30 - 10:00 Arrival & Registration

10:00 - 11:30

Round Table: Where Do We Go Now?

Chairs: Feng-Mei Heberer (New York University), Christian Gosvig Olesen (University of Amsterdam)

Susan Aasman (University of Groningen) & Tom Slootweg (University of Groningen)

Julia Noordegraaf (University of Amsterdam) & Nanne van Noord (University of Amsterdam)

Alexandra Schneider (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz) & Fabian Kling (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz)

Deb Verhoeven (University of Alberta, Canada) & Pauline Junginger (Philipps-Universität Marburg)

11:30 - 12.00

Closing Remarks
Sarah-Mai Dang (Philipps-Universität Marburg), Tim van der Heijden (Open University of the Netherlands)
12:00 - 13:00 Farewell Lunch

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