Media Studies

The German Department in Princeton has a long standing interest in Media Studies reflected in the research and teaching agendas of the faculty and students. Their interests have led to a series of international projects and institutional exchanges.

CTRL [SPACE]: Rhetorics of Surveillance from Bentham to Big Brother was a major international exhibition on view at the Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie (ZKM) in Karlsruhe through February 2002. It was curated by Thomas Levin.

CTRL [Space]: Rhetorics of Surveillance from Bentham to Big Brother (Ed. By Thomas Y. Levin with Ursula Frohne and Peter Weibel) (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2002)

The first international Summer School for Media Studies, a co-operation between the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar (IKKM) and Princeton University (Department of German), will take place from June 6 – June 10, 2011 in Weimar, Germany. Conceived as the first in a series of annual summer schools that will be held alternately at the IKKM Weimar and at Princeton University.