Events 2020
Times of Distance. Researching and Transmitting Film and Media History under/against Covid-19

Workshop “Times of Distance. Researching and Transmitting Film and Media History under/against Covid-19” (mit Hans-Michael Bock, Swenja Schiemann, Simone Venturini und Erika Wottrich), XVIII International Film and Media Studies MAGIS Spring School (“Pandemic Media New Frameworks for Teaching and Research“), Università degli Studi di Udine
01.12.2020
The recent shift from studying and teaching to online procedures under the influence of the Corona crisis presented all participants with a variety of challenges. What began in the spring of 2020 as real experiments at universities and schools around the world occupies the newly created free space of the social state of emergency with processes of hardware, software and platforms. This change continues to this day: as a multitude of interface processes and effects. Observing and discussing them poses a challenge of its own. Under this main umbrella, the Film and Media Heritage section, during a online one-day workshop, would like to stress some issues and topics related the modalities of production and transmission historical knowledge at the time of distance.