POPULAR SERIALITY International Conference June 68, 2013 University of Gttingen

PRELIMINARY CONFERENCE PROGRAM

Thursday, June 6

12:00 13:00 13:00 14:00

Registration Conference Opening Frank Kelleter (Universitt Gttingen, Germany): "Popular Seriality Aesthetics and Practice: A Research Unit"

14:00 15:30

Keynote Lecture Jason Mittell (Middlebury College, USA): "The Ends of Serial Criticism"

Coffee Break 16:00 17:30 Session 1: Media (In)Specificities Chair: Daniel Stein (Universitt Gttingen, Germany) Jared Gardner (Ohio State University, USA): "Comics Serialities" Ruth Mayer / Shane Denson (Universitt Hannover, Germany): "Spectral Serialities: Sights and Sounds of Count Dracula" 17:30 18:30 18:30 Reception Dinner

Friday, June 7

09:30 11:00

Session 2: Nineteenth Century Serialities Chair: Shane Denson (Universitt Hannover, Germany) Patricia Okker (University of Missouri Columbia, USA): "Creating Community in / with Nineteenth Century American Serials" Daniel Stein (Universitt Gttingen, Germany): "Serial Politicization in Antebellum America: On the Cultural Work of the City Mystery Genre"

Coffee Break 11:30 13:00 Session 3: Vast Narratives Chair: Kaspar Maase (Universitt Tbingen, Germany) Ben Singer (University of Wisconsin Madison, USA): "Seriality and Perenniality: Tora san and Existence" Julika Griem (Universitt Frankfurt, Germany): "Serial Ways of Worldmaking: Holistic Heuristics and Epic Effects" Lunch Break 14:30 16:00 Session 4: The Seriality of Remaking Chair: Birgit Abels (Universitt Gttingen, Germany) Frank Kelleter / Kathleen Loock (Universitt Gttingen, Germany): "Retrospective Serialization in Hollywood Remakes and Sequels" Constantine Verevis (Monash University, Australia): "New Millennial Remakes" Coffee Break 16:30 18:00 Panel Discussion: The Future of Seriality Studies Chair: Regina Bendix (Universitt Gttingen, Germany) Sudeep Dasgupta (Universiteit van Amsterdam, Netherlands) Lothar Mikos (HFF Potsdam, Germany) Sean OSullivan (Ohio State University, USA) Sabine Sielke (Universitt Bonn, Germany) 18:30 Dinner
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Saturday, June 8 09:00 10:30 Session 5: Temporalities Chair: Brbel Tischleder (Universitt Gttingen, Germany) Scott Higgins (Wesleyan University, USA): "The Inevitability of Chance: Time in the Sound Serial" Irmela Schneider (Universitt Kln, Germany): "Seriality and Scheduling as a Question of Time and Narrative" Coffee Break 11:00 12:30 Session 6: Technologies and Practices Chair: Andreas Jahn Sudmann (Universitt Gttingen, Germany) Christine Hmmerling / Mirjam Nast (Universitt Gttingen, Germany/ Universitt Tbingen, Germany): "Popular Seriality in Practice and Usage: A Comparison of the Pulp Novel Series Perry Rhodan and the Television Series Tatort" Tanja Weber / Christian Junklewitz (Universitt Kln, Germany): "How Does VoD Change Serial Television? The Impact of Hulu, Bit Torrent, Netflix & Co. On Narration, Business, And Viewing Practices of Television Series" Lunch Break 13:30 15:00 Session 7: Beyond Popular Narratives Chair: Frank Kelleter (Universitt Gttingen, Germany) Judith Keilbach (Universiteit Utrecht, Netherlands): "Seriality of Media Events" William Uricchio (MIT, USA / Universiteit Utrecht, Netherlands): "Seriality and Its Discontents: Displacements of Time and Meaning in the Serial Form" 15:00 15:30 Conclusion