Guest lecture, September 17: Stefan Rieger: Terms of Media – Atmospheres of the Global and their Techniques

September 17, 2015, 2:00 p.m., Odette Hall 323

Professor STEFAN RIEGER teaches media history at the Ruhr-University of Bochum. He was a member of the graduate program Theory of Literature at the University of Konstanz, where he continued his research as a member of the Special Research Cluster “Literature and Anthropology”. Stefan Rieger has published widely on media theory and history, including books on early modern data processing (Speichern/Merken. Die künstlichen Intelligenzen des Barock, Munich 1997, based on his PhD dissertation) and on the relationship between media and anthropology. (Die Individualität der Medien. Eine Geschichte der Wissenschaften vom Menschen, Frankfurt/M. 2001). Stefan Rieger was also the recipient of a prestigious DFG Heisenberg fellowship. In 2012/13, he was research fellow at the KuKo (Kulturwissenschaftliches Kolleg Konstanz).

This lecture is co-sponsered by the Joint Initiative in German and European Studies.

If you have any accommodation needs, please e-mail german@chass.utoronto.ca five business days prior to the event, and we will do our best to assist you.