Martin Shuster: “History and New Television Series”

For the fifth session of its seminar, DEMOSERIES welcomes Martin Shuster, who will talk about:

"History and New Television Series"

Martin Shuster is Professor of Philosophy and the Isaac Swift Distinguished Professor of Jewish Studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. In addition to many essays and articles, he is the author of Autonomy after Auschwitz: Adorno, German Idealism, and Modernity (University of Chicago Press, 2014), New Television: The Aesthetics and Politics of a Genre (University of Chicago Press, 2017), How to Measure a World? A Philosophy of Judaism (Indiana University Press, 2021) and Critical Theory: The Basics (Routledge, in press).

Talk's presentation

From its founding moments, new television—think here of Deadwood as much as The Wire—new television has frequently exhibited history or historical events. This talk will critically examine the way(s) in which new television series "do" history. A central question will be whether it is plausible to speak of such media of moving images as sites where the human past is documented, studied, and/or constructed, and if so, whether there is something unique about such media and the relationship to the enterprise of history.

To attend this event in person, please come to the Maison de la Philosophie - Marin Mersenne (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne), 5th floor, room 08 (13 rue du Four, 75006 Paris).

To attend the event via zoom, please register by following the link below: https://pantheonsorbonne.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIrc-6prjosG9BFgWtGntbPEB8M9BAml-35