Program
Friday, 22 January 2010
| 5.30 pm | Welcome MARKUS MERZ, Principal of the Merz Akademie |
| 5.45 pm | CHRISTOPH DREHER: »Revolution of Audiovisual Media: Narrative TV Series as Art« (german) |
| 6.30 pm | Film Program »OZ« |
| 7.30 pm | TOM FONTANA on his Work as the Creator of Innovative TV series (english) → with following discussion |
| 8.30 pm | Joint Dinner |
Saturday, 23 January 2010
| 10.00 am | DAVID LAVERY: »The Imagination will be Televised: Showrunning and the Reanimation of Authorship in 21st Century American Television« (english) → with following discussion |
| 11.30 am | THOMAS MORSCH: »Representation, Allegory, Ecstasy – Political Fantasies in Current Television Series« (german) → with following discussion |
| 1.00 pm | Lunch Break |
| 2.00 pm | Film Program »Deadwood«, »The Wire« |
| 4.15 pm | TED MANN: »Writing and Creating ›Deadwood‹ and Other Innovative TV Series« (english) → with following discussion |
| 5.15 pm | KAREN L. THORSON: »Producing ›The Wire‹« (english) → with following discussion |
Sunday, 24 January 2010
| 10.30 am | BERT REBHANDL: »Where is Maris? Repetition and Endless Deferral in the Sitcom ›Frasier‹« (german) → with following discussion |
| 12.00 noon | DIEDRICH DIEDERICHSEN: »Reading and Re-Reading. Browsing Films.« (german) → with following discussion |
| 1.15 pm | Lunch Break |
| 2.15 pm | KIM AKASS and JANET MC CABE: »What has HBO ever done for Women?« (english) → with following discussion |
| 3.15 pm | End of the Event |
Moderation
HELMUT DRAXLER (professor of aesthetic theory at the Merz Academy)
CHRISTOPH DREHER (professor of film and video at the Merz Academy)
