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Katharina Niemeyer

Professor
Université du Québec à Montréal et Centre de recherche Cultures-Arts-Société

Katharina Niemeyer (co-organizer of the IAMHIST-Conference) is a media theorist, professor at the School of Media (Faculty of Communication) at the Université du Québec à Montréal, director of CELAT-UQAM (Centre de recherche Cultures-Arts-Sociétés), co-responsible of the research-creation mXlab and co-curator of the TOTAL SCREEN exhibition. Her current research and research-creation projects embrace the questions of (creational) solastalgia, loss and media.

Trained in cultural sciences, media archaeology and media philosophy at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar (Germany), as well as in communication sciences at the University of Lyon (France) and at the University of Geneva (Switzerland), her research focuses on the relationships between media and (digital) technologies, temporalities, memory, and history. She recently co-edited the book Nostalgies contemporaines : médias, cultures et technologies, published in 2021 by Presses universitaires du Septentrion. She is a member of the editorial board of the journals MAST (Media Art Study and Theory) and Memory, Mind & Media (Cambridge University Press). Katharina Niemeyer is also council member of the International Association for Media and History and co-founder of the International Media and Nostalgia Network.

Sessions in which Katharina Niemeyer attends

Tuesday 20 June, 2023

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
Official opening and plenary roundtable
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes

Thursday 22 June, 2023

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
GENERAL IAMHIST ASSEMBLY
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes