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This conference is dedicated to the memory of Miriam Hansen and her seminal work in film history and film theory. One focus of the conference is her posthumously published book Cinema and Experience: Siegfried Kracauer, Walter Benjamin, and Theodor W. Adorno (2012). Other topics are early cinema, on which Hansen has published an influential book, the idea of a vernacular modernism in global context which her latest work was focused on, and the kind of political intellectual investments she stood for both in Germany, in this country, and across the world. The conference brings together major film scholars from Europe and the United States and is designed to carry on Miriam Hansen's critical work. The conference is organized by the journal New German Critique on whose editorial board Hansen served for several decades.

Organized by New German Critique and sponsored by DAAD New York, Goethe Institute New York, Deutsches Generalkonsulat New York, Lufthansa, the Heyman Center for the Humanities, and the Columbia Department of Germanic Languages.

Friday, September 21
6:00 p.m.
Opening Comments
Andreas Huyssen

6:10 p.m.
Alexander Kluge’s television interview with Miriam Hansen
Introduced by David Bathrick

6:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
Symposium on Cinema and Experience

Moderated by Rick Rentschler

Panelists:
Susan Buck-Morss, CUNY Graduate Center
Ed Dimendberg, University of California Irvine
Tony Kaes, University of California Berkeley
Laura Mulvey, Birkbeck College, London
David Rodowick, Harvard University
Heide Schlüpmann, Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main

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