Interdisciplinary Research Projects

Research project G07 "Medial Reflections: Threat Communication and the US-American Order after the Attacks of 9/11" in the Collaborative Research Unit 923 "Threatened Orders-Societies under Stress" at the University of Tübingen (07/2015-06/2019, Principal Investigator).

Exploration project "Multimodality in Convergent Media Cultures" as part of Platform 4 "Education-Society-Norms-Ethical Reflection" of the University of Tübingen's "Future Concept" in the "Excellence Initiative" (01/2016-12/2017, Co-Applicant).

Academic Events

Comics|Games: Aesthetic, Ludic, and Narrative Strategies. Symposium in Hanover, Germany, November 5 to November 7, 2018 [with Andreas Rauscher and Daniel Stein].

Threat Communication and the US-American Order after 9/11. International Conference at the CRC 923 of the University of Tübingen, September 20 to September 21, 2018 [with Vanessa Ossa, Klaus Sachs-Hombach, David Scheu, Georg Schild, and Lukas Wilde].

Fakt/Fiktion: Referentielle Multimodalität in der digitalen Medienkultur. Workshop at the University of Tübingen, June 1 to June 2, 2017.

Medialität und Multimodalität aus japanischer Perspektive. Workshop at the University of Tübingen, December 16, 2016.

Piktoriale Narratologie: Zur Narrativität des Bildes in multimodalen Kontexten. Workshop at the University of Tübingen, November 26, 2016.

Zur Ästhetik des Gemachten in Animation und Comic: Interdisziplinäres Symposium deutschsprachiger Animations- und Comicforschung. Symposium at Schloss Herrenhausen in Hannover, November 9 to November 11, 2016 [with Hans-Joachim Backe, Julia Eckel, Erwin Feyersinger und Véronique Sina].

Mediality and Politics of Emotions. Workshop at the CRC 923 "Threatened Orders" of the University of Tübingen, October 12 to October 13, 2016 [with Vanessa Ossa, Ernst Henning Peters, Klaus Sachs-Hombach, Monique Scheer, David Scheu, Georg Schild, and Anne Ulrich].

Transmedial Narratology. Theories and Methods. Winter School at the Graduate Academy of the University of Tübingen, February 23 to February 26, 2016.

Mediality and Materiality of Contemporary Comics. Workshop at the Graduate Academy of the University of Tübingen, April 24 to April 26, 2015 [with Lukas Wilde].

Mediality and Multimodality across Media. Winter School at the Graduate Academy of the University of Tübingen, January 28 to January 30, 2015 [with Klaus Sachs-Hombach].

Transmedial Worlds in Convergent Media Culture. Winter School at the Graduate Academy of the University of Tübingen, February 24 to February 28, 2014.

Storyworlds across Media. Mediality - Multimodality - Transmediality. Conference at the Research Unit Media Convergence of the JGU Mainz, June 30 to July 2, 2011 [with Karl N. Renner and Marie-Laure Ryan].

Zur Intermedialität des Films. Workshop of the Arbeitsstelle Film- und Fernsehforschung at the University of Hamburg, March 21, 2009 [with Rayd Khouloki and Maike Sarah Reinerth].

Mediales Erzählen: Medialität, Intermedialität, Transmedialität. Research colloquium of the German National Academic Foundation at the University of Hamburg, September 12 to September 13, 2009 [with Lisa Volpp].

Probleme filmischen Erzählens. Workshop of the Arbeitsstelle Film- und Fernsehforschung at the University of Hamburg, September 27, 2008 [with Hannah Birr and Maike Sarah Reinerth].

Foto Jan-Noël Thon

Foto Jan-Noël Thon