151 - Fluid Media, 1750–1850: Surface, Matter, and Form(lessness)

Thursday, 8 January 2026, 7:00 PM - 8:15 PM

Presider

Austen Hinkley (Yale U)

Respondent

Ella Wilhelm (U of Michigan, Ann Arbor)

Presentations

‘Eine Welle, versteinert im Augenblicke’: Goethe’s Fluid Media

Tove Holmes (McGill U)

Goethe’s and Schelling’s Project of Morphology as Philosophical Fluid Dynamics

Matteo Zupancic (U degli Studi di Pisa)

Eloquent Surfaces: Mediality and Liquidity in Goethe, Hegel, and Stifter

Alexander Sorenson (Binghamton U, State U of New York)

Wellenschreiber: Media Histories of the Early Modern Seascape

Sandro Paul Heidelbach (Yale U)

Session Information

Allied Organization: G. E. Lessing Society