Seismographies:
Alexander Kluge's Polymorphous Urgencies
A Workshop and Tribute Symposium
Seismographies:
Alexander Kluge's Polymorphous Urgencies
A Workshop and Tribute Symposium
NOVEMBER 5–6, 2026
Seismographies: Alexander Kluge's Polymorphous Urgencies
A Workshop and Tribute Symposium
Hosted by the Department of German, Princeton University
EVENT SCHEDULE & PROGRAM
Thursday, November 5 - East Pyne 010
5 pm – Film Screening: Yesterday Girl / Abschied von gestern (dir. Kluge, 1966), with introductory remarks by Michael W. Jennings and a post-film discussion led by Thomas Y. Levin
Friday, November 6 -
Morning: workshops & screening
Princeton University Art Museum, room 134 (Tuttle Lecture Hall)
9:00 am – “Constellative Collections: Orientations in Alexander Kluge's Video Work”: an archival workshop by Kizer S. Walker
10:30 am – Close reading breakout sessions
11:30 am – Film Screening: Finite and Infinite Games (dir. Morris, 2017), with an introduction by Sarah Morris
Afternoon: symposium & roundtables featuring invited speakers
201 Senate Chamber, Whig Hall
2 pm – Panel I. Kluge & critical theory
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4:30 pm – Panel II. Atlas: Kluge’s multimedia practice, from architecture to AI
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Invited guest speakers: Juan-Jacques Aupiais (Ohio State University); Michael W. Jennings (Princeton University); Gertrud Koch (Freie Universität Berlin/Leuphana University Lüneburg); Richard Langston (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill); Sarah Morris (New York); Irina Simova (Wesleyan University); Joseph Vogl (Princeton University/Humboldt-Universität Berlin); Kizer S. Walker (Cornell University)
Film still from © Sarah Morris, “Finite and Infinite Games,” 2017, HD Digital.