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Publications
Henning Engelke
Books
Metaphern einer anderen Filmgeschichte. Amerikanischer Experimentalfilm, 1940–1960. Marburg: Schüren Verlag 2018.
Articles
Brakhage’s Screen (in preparation)
Incarcerated Youth and the Otisville Film Club, 1969-1972 (in preparation)
Theorie des Avantgarde- und Experimentalfilms, in: Britta Hartmann, Ursula von Keitz, Markus Kuhn, Thomas Schick und Michael Wedel (eds.), Handbuch Filmwissenschaft, J.B. Metzler Verlag: Stuttgart (forthcoming 2023)
Sol Worth, Film Theory, and the Politics of the Bio-Documentary, forthcoming in Grey Room 89 (Fall 2022)
“Perception, Awareness, and Film Practice: A Natural History of the ‘Doris-Film’”. In: James McElvenny/Andrea Ploder (Eds.), Holisms of Communication. Berlin: Language Science Press 2021, pp. 105–138.
“Neoplasticism and Cinema: Ilya Bolotowsky’s Experimental Films on Art”. In: Steven Jacobs/Birgit Cleppe/Dimitrios Latsis (Eds.), Art in the Cinema: The Mid-Century Art Documentary. London: Bloomsbury 2020, pp. 201–220.
Reviews
Review of: Justin Remes, Absence in Cinema: The Art of Showing Nothing. New York: Columbia University Press 2020. In: MEDIENwissenschaft 2 (2021), pp. 187–188.
Lectures
"'The Drama of Difference': Microhistories of Youth Filmmaking in Total Institutions," Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, Denver, April 2023
"Acoustic Pedagogies, Ecological Anthropology, and the Politics of Ethnographic Sounds," Workshop: Acoustic Space and Cinematic Ecologies, Philipps University Marburg and Goethe University Frankfurt, November 2022
"Bateson und die Delphine," Ringvorlesung: Interferenzen / Differenzen: Kunst, Musik und Medien im intermedialen Fokus. Philipps-Universität Marburg, November 2022
"Design Fantasies and Post-War Realities: The Red Shoes (1948) and Torn Curtain (1966)," Conference "Hein Heckroth (1901-1970) - Bühnenbildner, Filmdesigner, Maler. Bausteine einer Werkbiografie," Gießen, Justus Liebig University, June 2022
"Incarcerated Youth and the Otisville Film Club, 1969-1972," with DeeDee Halleck, Orphan Film Symposium, Montreal, June 2022
"Virtual Book Talk: Metaphors of Another Film History: American Experimental Film, 1940—1960," respondent Jan-Christopher Horak, SCMS, Experimental Film and Media Scholarly Interest Group, May 2022 (online)
"An Image of India: Film Screening and Discussion – Indiens steinerne Wunder (1934)," presentation and discussion, Babylon cinema, Berlin, May 2022
"Screens, Sites, and Historiographies of Experimental Film," Workshop on "Historiographies of Experimental Film," Stockholm University, April 2022
"Young Filmmakers, Sociology, and the Avant-Garde," SCMS Conference, April 2022 (online)
"Teaching Film and Studying Visual Communication: Sol Worth’s Documentary Film Workshop," Panel: Film Pedagogy, Bio-Documentaries, and the Politics of Student Films. December 15, 2021, Visible Evidence Conference, Frankfurt. Panelists: Stephen Charbonneau (Florida Atlantic University), Yvonne Zimmermann (Philipps-Universität Marburg), Henning Engelke (Philipps-Universität Marburg); Respondent: Jane M. Gaines (Columbia University, New York).
Film Screening: "'A Slice of Life' — Films from Sol Worth’s Documentary Film Lab," December 16, 2021, Visible Evidence Conference, Frankfurt. Panelists: Angela J. Aguayo (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Noelle Griffis (Marymount Manhattan College, New York), Michael Griffin (Macalester College, Saint Paul, MN), Henning Engelke (Philipps University, Marburg).
Introduction: Anticipation of the Night (Stan Brakhage 1958), Arsenal, Berlin, November 9, 2021. Part of the film series "The gatekeepers exist to be overthrown,"
Amos Vogel – Repeats und Responses.
"Exploding the Canon: Anthology Film Archives, 1973," Roundtable: Preserving Experimental History: Avant-Garde Media, Institutional Politics and Archival Practice. SCMS Conference, March 2021 (virtual conference).
"Experimentalfilm, Filmexperiment und Medienwissenschaft," Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Medienwissenschaft (GfM), September 2020 (virtual conference).
Introduction to screening of Meshes of the Afternoon (Maya Deren, 1943) and La Coquille et le Clergyman (Germaine Dulac, 1927), Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, April 2020 (online).
"Hollis Framptons (nostalgia) (1971)," contribution to the Lecture Series Von der Leinwand zum Bildschirm. Bewegtbilder in künstlerischen Kontexten at Karlsruher Institut für Technologie, Karlsruhe, January 2020.
"Sol Worth, Film Studies, and Inner-City Youths’ Filmmaking" at NYU Tisch School of the Arts, May 2019.
"'Let’s hear what we can see': Arctic Sounds and Media Anthropology in Edmund Carpenter’s Films" at Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, Seattle, March 2019.
"Sharing Difference/Understanding Media: Cinematic Research, Visual Anthropology and Ecologies of Communication in the 1960s," at Creating Shared Experience – Sensory Ethnography and Collaborative Filmmaking Conference at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, February 2019.
"Acoustic Space," contribution to Medienökologien des Ästhetischen Workshop at Universität Regensburg, February 2019.
"Three Surrealist Films by Ilya Bolotowsky (with Andrew Bolotowsky)" at Washburn Gallery, New York, January 2019.
"Cultural Ecologies and Media Ecology: Allison Jablonko’s Microanalysis of Maring Motion Behavior" at Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, Toronto, March 2018.
Sophia Gräfe
Articles
“Bilder als Typen. Digitalfotografie der Fliege Marleyimyia xylocopae (2014),” In Museale Reste. (Bildwelten des Wissens 18) edited by Nina Samuel and Felix Sattler, Berlin: De Gruyter 2022, pp. 92-98.
“Red Foxes in the Filing Cabinet: Günter Tembrock's Image Collection and Media Use in Mid‐Century Ethology,” In Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte 45(1-2), June 2022, pp. 55-86.
“Le comportement et le dégoût,” In Emanuele Quinz (ed.): Le comportement des choses. Dijon: les presses du réel 2021, pp. 260–265.
“Kommentar,” In Ethology. Claims and Limits of a Lost Discipline, edited by Andrea Allerkamp und Martin Roussel. Paderborn: Fink 2021, pp. 267–275.
“Introduction: Teaching Non-Theatrical Media,” In JCMS Teaching Media Online Dossier, edited by Hongwei Thorn Chen, Joseph Clarke, Tanya Goldman and Sophia Gräfe, online publication, JCMS 2021, Link.
“Mapping the Nontheatrical Field: A Useful Teaching Bibliography,” co-authored with Hongwei Thorn Chen. In JCMS Teaching Media Online Dossier: Teaching Nontheatrical and Useful Media, co-edited with Hongwei Thorn Chen, Joseph Clarke, and Tanya Goldman, online publication, JCMS 2021.
“Mediating Disease: Scientific Transcriptions of COVID-19 into Animal Models,” co-authored with Benjamin Schultz-Figueroa. In Pandemic Media: Preliminary Notes Toward an Inventory, edited by Laliv Melamed, Philipp Dominik Keidl and Vinzenz Hediger. Lüneburg: Meson Press 2020, pp. 243–249.
“Images of Nature – Object Histories from the Historical Image and Document Collections of the Historical Division,” co-edited with Julia Bärnighausen, online publication, Museum für Naturkunde Berlin 2020.
“Temporalizing Space through Sound and Movement: the Günter Tembrock protocols on fox behavior” co-authored with Alexandra Hui. In Sound & Science: Digital Histories Datenbank, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, online publication, 2020.
“Der ‚Verein für Museen’ (1933–1957) – Gelehrte Fiktionen eines Biologen,” In Museales Erzählen, edited by Ulrike Vedder, Johanna Stapelfeldt and Klaus Wiehl. München: Fink Verlag, 2020, pp. 297–318.
“Filmpräparate auf dem Messtisch – Der Meßkineautograph von Joachim Rieck,” In Scientific Fiction. Inszenierungen der Wissenschaft zwischen Film, Fakt und Fiktion. (Bildwelten des Wissens, Band 14), edited by Claudia Blümle, Horst Bredekamp and Matthias Bruhn, responsible for this volume: Luisa Feiersinger. Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2018, pp. 41–43.
Reviews
Rezension of Martin Böhnert: Methodologische Signaturen. Ein philosophischer Versuch zur Systematisierung der empirischen Erforschung des Geistes von Tieren, Paderborn: Mentis 2020. in Zeitschrift für Kulturphilosophie 2021/2, 2021, pp. 189-191.
Review of Christian Reiß: Der Axolotl. Ein Labortier im Heimaquarium 1864-1914, Göttingen: Wallstein 2020, in ISIS – Journal der History of Science Society (HSS), Issue 112 (2021) 3, pp. 616–617.
Review of Philipp Springer: Der Blick der Stasi. Fotografien aus dem Archiv des MfS. Dresden: Sandstein Verlag 2020. In Fotogeschichte, Heft 159, 2021, pp. 72–75.
Review of Linda Waak, Der kleine Film: Mikrohistorie und Mediengeschichte. Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 2020. In MEDIENwissenschaft: Rezensionen | Reviews, Online-Ressource (2021/1), pp. 72–74.
Review of Felix Lüttge, Auf den Spuren des Wals: Geographien des Lebens im 19. Jahrhundert. Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag, 2020. In Tiere und/als Medien. Tierstudien 18/2020, edited by Jessica Ullrich und Stefan Rieger. Berlin: Neofelis Verlag, pp. 184–185.
Review of Böhnert, Martin / Köchy, Kristian / Wunsch, Matthias (Ed.), Philosophie der Tierforschung. 3 Volumes, Freiburg/München: Karl Alber, 2016–18. In Journal for General Philosophy of Science, 51(3), pp. 503–506.
Review of Carlo Thielmann, Tier und Film – Zur Modellierung anthropologischer Differenz. Marburg: Schüren Verlag, 2018. In MEDIENwissenschaft: Rezensionen | Reviews (2020,1), pp. 68–70.
Lectures
“Verhaltenswissen,” Forschungskolloquium Wissenschaftsgeschichte / Praxeologien der Wahrheit, Universität Erfurt, Erfurt, January 24, 2023.
“Datenfüchse,” “Menagerie virtueller Tiere” workshop, Institut für Medienwissenschaft, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Bochum, December 6, 2022.
Together with Henning Engelke: “Acoustic Space: Filme und ihre akustischen Ökologien in Wissenschaft und Avantgarde,” part of the “Interferenzen / Differenzen: Kunst, Musik und Medien im intermedialen Fokus« lecture series, Kunstgeschichtliches Institut, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Marburg, November 8, 2022.
“Archival Hypnosis,” “Useful Film under State Socialism” workshop, National University for Theatre and Film, Bucharest, October 22, 2022.
“Measuring Films, Scaling Behavior: Operative Films in the History of Ethology,” at the panel “Thesaurus, Atlas, Index. Epistemic Configurations of Research Film,” NECS 2022 Conference, Epistemic Media: Atlas, Archive, Network, National University of Theatre and Film, Bucharest, June 22–26, 2022.
“'A Living Unity Between the Scientist, the Artist, and the Man-In-the-Street': Scientific Films for Social Progress at the ISFA,” “Educational Film as Practice Conference,” tfm | Institut für Theater-, Film- und Medienwissenschaft der Universität Wien, Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Digital History, Vienna, June 9–11, 2022 (cancelled).
“Medien des Verhaltens,” at the “Theorie medialer Welten” colloquium, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Weimar, June 7, 2022.
“Entangled Media Histories of Zoonosis – The Fur Farm in GDR-Popular Scientific Film, Cine-Zoonosis: Onscreen Animals as Media Reservoirs” panel, Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) Annual Conference, Chicago (US), March 31–April 3, 2022, online.
“Das Museum in der Wissenschaftsfiktion – Günter Tembrocks 'Verein für Museen'”, Schöne Vortrag, Richard Schöne Gesellschaft für Museumsgeschichte e.V., Berlin, Januar 17, 2022, online.
“5x5 m on 16 mm – Synthesizing Wildlife Behavior in the Lab,” “Nonhuman Knowledge: The Epistemology of the Animal Documentary Image” panel, Visible Evidence 2021, Frankfurt/Main, December 15–18, 2021, online.
“Fictional Writing and Listening - The 'Verein für Museen' of Biologist Günter Tembrock,” “Genres of Scientific Knowledge” panel, HSS Annual Meeting, New Orleans, November 18–21, 2021, online.
“Streitfall Verhalten – Verhaltensbiologie zwischen Tierforschung und Sozialhygiene,” “Wie die Tiere? Analogien und Differenzierungen zwischen Animalischem und Humanem im 20. Jahrhundert” panel at 53. Deutscher Historikertag 2020, Munich, October 5–6, 2021, online.
Co-Chair, “Forschungsumgebungen. Medienwissenschaftliche Wissenschaftsforschung,” at Wissensökologie, annual meeting of Gesellschaft für Medienwissenschaft 2021, Innsbruck, September 25, 2021.
“Das Spekulative Bild – Unschärfen der Historiografie von Observationsfilmen des MfS,” “Zur Forensik geheimdienstlicher Medien und ihrer Archive« panel, GfM Jahrestagung 2021, Innsbruck, September 23, 2021.
“Filmstrips and Milimeter Paper – On Analog Data Traffic in Behavioral Biology around 1950,” “Scaling Behavior. German Ethology between Zoological Research and Sociological Interventions, ca. 1945–1980” panel, Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Technikgeschichte und der Gesellschaft für die Geschichte von Wissenschaft, Medizin und Technik: Skalen, Normen, Grenzwerte im (digitalen) Wandel, Vienna, September 17–19, 2021, online.
“Research(ing) Film without Film – Historiographical Notes on Nontheatrical Film
Archives,” SCMS 2021 Online Conference, March 19, 2021, online.
“Resonanzen des Verhaltens – Bioakustik und Politik im Ost-Berlin der 1950er Jahre,” “Ethology: Claims and Limits of a Lost Discipline” conference at Internationales Kolleg Morphomata der Universität zu Köln, Köln, May 6–8, 2020. new: Podcast, July 9, 2020 (cancelled).
“Mapping Behavior,” “Collaborative Methods Between Cinema and Media Scholars and Media Geographers” seminar at Society for Cinema and Media Studies, annual conference (SCMS), Denver, April 2020 (cancelled).
“Material werden – Filmische Ökologien des Verhaltens,” “Natur und Film – Ecocinema und Ecoaesthetics” panel at Medien – Materialitäten, annual meeting of Gesellschaft für Medienwissenschaft, Köln, September 25–28, 2019.
“Schreib- und Beobachtungsszenen des Verhaltens am Zoologischen Institut der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (1948–1968),” 6th Forschungskolloquium Cultural and Literary Animal Studies “Tier und Musik”, Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften at Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Bad Homburg, September 4–7, 2019.
“Behavior (Un-)Archived: Research Films in East German Bioacoustics,” “Science on the Film Strip” panel at History of Science Society (HSS), annual meeting, Utrecht, July 23–27, 2019.
“Verhalten oder Zeichen? Zum Verständnis von Gesten in der Biologie”, lecture in cooperation with ZfL, accompanying program for Gesten – gestern, heute, übermorgen, exhibition at Museum für Kommunikation, Berlin, June 18, 2019.
“Ecologies of Behavior – Media and Politics in Early Bio-Acoustics” at Echoing Ecologies – Interdisciplinary Perspectives in Canadian Studies, conference organized by the Marburg Centre for Canadian Studies, Marburg, May 22–24, 2019.
“Listening to Foxes on Film: Sonic Images in East German Bioacoustics,” Acoustic Space and Cinematic Ecologies, 1950–1980 panel at SCMS 2019 Seattle Conference, Seattle, March 13–17, 2019.
“Verhalten filmen – Günter Tembrock und die Bewegungsdauerpräparate der Ethologie” at Wissenschaftsgeschichte research colloquium, Prof. Anna Echterhölter, Universität Wien, Wien, November 28, 2018.
“Günter Tembrocks Verhaltenswissen,” at “Verhaltenswissen” workshop, Leibniz-Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung, Berlin, June 8, 2018.