News & Events

Presentations

Quendler, Christian. "'Franz, I'll meet you there in the mountains': Landscape in Terrence Malick’s A Hidden Life (2019)" Presentation at the Screen Studies Conference at the University of Glasgow, July 1, 2023.

Müller, Eva-Maria. "The Joys of Skiing with Luis Trenker." Presentation at the Workshop "Refigurationen von ‘Heimat’. Luis Trenker im Intermedialen Kontext” at the University of Heidelberg, December 5, 2022.

Quendler, Christian. "Vor Trenker: Nunzio Malasommas Mister Radio (1924)." Presentation at the Workshop "Refigurationen von ‘Heimat’. Luis Trenker im Intermedialen Kontext” at the University of Heidelberg, December 5, 2022.

Vith, Johannes. "Landscapes of Violence." Presentation at the 49^th International Conference of the Austrian Association for American Studies (AAAS) “Narrative, Environment, Social Justice,” October 22, 2022.

Vith, Johannes. "Eine wahre Geschichte des Mondes." Guest lecture at the University of Innsbruck, October 13, 2022.

Fuchs, Michael. "Guardian of the Beauty and Mystery of the Andes: Film and Incomprehensibility of Mountains in La Cordillera De Los Sueños." Presentation at the University of Innsbruck's 3rd international mountain workshop "Global Circuits of Mountain Cinema," June 27, 2022.

Vith, Johannes. "Mining for Trauma." Presentation at the University of Innsbruck's 3rd international mountain workshop "Global Circuits of Mountain Cinema," June 27, 2022.

Quendler, Christian. "Cinematic Ecologies of Landscape." Guest lecture at the University of Klagenfurt, June 1, 2022.

Quendler, Christian. "Alpenkino aus transatlantischer Perspektive." Guest lecture at the University of Zurich, March 10, 2022. [Link - Event]

Müller, Eva-Maria. "Unspoiled, Untouched, Unclimbed: Postcolonial Readings of Mountain Travel Literature." Guest lecture at the Department of Comparative Literature, University of Innsbruck, January 11, 2022.

Vith, Johannes. “The Politics of Lunar Mining.” Presentation at Austria’s Young Americanists’ (AYA) Colloquium for Emerging Scholars in American Studies, October 20, 2021.

Schweigl, Maximilian. "When Glaciers Bleed: Renegotiating 1980s B-Horror for the 21st Century." Presentation at the University of Innsbruck's conference "Mountains & Cinema," October 16, 2021.

Lehmann, Benita. "The World's a Mountain: Alpine Re-Configurations and Synthetic Mountains in Snowpiercer (2013)." Presentation at the University of Innsbruck's conference "Mountains & Cinema," October 15, 2021.

Vith, Johannes. "The Temporality of Sci-Fi Mountains." Presentation at the University of Innsbruck's conference "Mountains & Cinema," October 15, 2021.

Lehmann, Benita. "Mountain Networks in Snowpiercer (2013)." Presentation at the University of Innsbruck's workshop "Global Mountain Cinema," June 29, 2021.

Müller, Eva-Maria. "Beyond Sport and Spectacle: Revisiting the Skifilm." Presentation at the University of Innsbruck's workshop "Global Mountain Cinema," June 29, 2021.

Schweigl, Maximilian. "Conceptualizing the Geology of Fear." Presentation at the University of Innsbruck's workshop "Global Mountain Cinema," June 29, 2021.

Vith, Johannes. "When Urgency Meets Mobility: Cinematic Mountains and the Anthropocene." Presentation at the University of Innsbruck's workshop "Global Mountain Cinema," June 29, 2021.

Quendler, Christian. "Transnational Mountain Compositing." Presentation at the University of Innsbruck's workshop "Global Mountain Cinema," June 29, 2021.

Vith, Johannes. "Aging Among the Stars." Presentation at the symposium Gender and Age/Aging in Popular Culture. University of Graz, June 24, 2021.

Vith, Johannes. "All Quiet on the Lunar Front." Presentation at the annual conference of the Science Fiction Research Association, "The Future of/as Inequality," June 20, 2021.

Quendler, Christian. "Queere Chimäre: Humor & Assemblage." Presentation at the University of Innsbruck's conference "Feministisches Lachen: Geschlechtertheoretische Perspektiven auf Komik, Humor und Lachen", June 18, 2021.

Vith, Johannes. “Cinematic Mountains in Motion.” Presentation at the annual Popular Culture Association Conference, June 3, 2021.

Vith, Johannes. "The Uncanny Resemblance of Lunar Mining Sites.” Presentation at the 2020 conference of the European Association for American Studies (EAAS) “20/20 Vision: Citizenship, Space, Renewal,” May 1, 2021.

Müller, Eva-Maria. "'Forget the summit!': Mediations of Descent in Philipp Stölzl's Nordwand." Presentation at the University of London's conference "Alptraum/a", April 16, 2021.

Quendler, Christian. “Wild Wild Alps: Transatlantic Exchanges of Mountain Cinema.” Guest lecture at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, February 13, 2020.

Müller, Eva-Maria. “Locus Vivus: Towards a New Paradigm in Mountain Studies.” Guest lecture at the University of Innsbruck’s ZIAS-Lecture Series "Alpine Americas", January 9, 2020.

Fuchs, Michael. “The Glacier Is Gone! The Alps and the Horrors of the Anthropocene.” Presentation at the 46^th Conference of the Austrian Association for American Studies, “Mediating Mountains,” University of Innsbruck, November 24, 2019.

Müller, Eva-Maria. "Alpine Orientalism: A Postcolonial Reading of 19th-century Austrian and Canadian mountain travel literature." Presentation at the 46^th Conference of the Austrian Association for American Studies, “Mediating Mountains,” University of Innsbruck," November 23, 2019.

Quendler, Christian. “Holy Mountain Hollywood: Hölderlin, Fanck, Herzog.” Presentation at the symposium "Heilige Berge – Berge und das Heilige". University of Innsbruck, November 16, 2019.

Quendler, Christian. “Relocating and Delocating Mountains in Silent Classical Cinema.” Presentation at the International Mountain Studies Symposium, Appalachian State University, NC, March 12, 2019.

Quendler, Christian. “Aristocracy, Urbanity, and Mountains in Silent Classical Cinema.” Presentation at the 42nd Annual Appalachian Studies Conference “AppalachA’ville: Engage, Sustain, Innovate,” University of North Carolina Asheville, March 15, 2019.

Quendler, Christian. “Mapping Zhao Liang’s Behemoth (2015): Humanism in the Age of Digital Global Art Cinema.” Guest Lecture for Interdisciplinary Brown Bag Lecture Series hosted by the Department of Cultural, Gender and Global Studies at Appalachian State University, NC, January 23, 2019.

Quendler, Christian. “Permafrost and Periphery: Media Archaeology in Bill Morrison’s Dawson City: Frozen Time (2016).” Guest lecture at the University of Vienna, January 10, 2018.

Quendler, Christian “Mountains and the History of Film Theory.” Presentation at the International Mountain Studies Film Workshop at the University of Innsbruck, June 23, 2017.

Quendler, Christian. “Aging, Auteurism and the Bergfilm” Presentation together with Daniel Winkler at the International Mountain Studies Film Workshop at the University of Innsbruck. June 23, 2017.

Outreach Activities

Müller, Eva-Maria and Johannes Vith. Cinema Talks Le OTTO MONTAGNE at the European Cinema Night, Leokino Innsbruck, December 8, 2022.

Müller, Eva-Maria. Reading and Discussion "Wilderness and Womanhood" with Angie Abdou on International Mountain Day, December 2021.

Müller, Eva-Maria. Concept work for the theater festival STEUDLTENN, Uderns, February 2020.

Quendler, Christian. Guided tour through Melanie Manchot’s exhibition “Mountainworks (Montafon)” at the BTV Stadtgallerie Innsbruck, November 2019.

Quendler, Christian. Roundtable Discussion with Melanie Manchot and Konrad Kuhn at the opening of the exhibition “Mountainworks (Montafon), BTV Stadtgalerie Innsbruck, October 2019.

Quendler, Christian. Round-Table Discussion on Mountain/Appalachian Film with Jerry W. Williams at the International Mountain Studies Symposium, Appalachian State University, NC, March 12, 2019.

Teaching

610020 SE Inside Mountains, Christian Quendler (Summer 2023)

610007 PS Never Just a Game: Sport and Play in American Literature, Eva-Maria Müller (Summer 2022)

610019 SE Ecocinema, Christian Quendler (Winter 2021/22)

610029 SE Mining Movies, Christian Quendler (Winter 2020/21)

610029 SE Mining Movies, Christian Quendler (Summer 2020)

610012 PS American Mountain / Film / Culture, Eva-Maria Müller (Winter 2019/20)

610028 SE Mediating Mountains, Christian Quendler (Winter 2019/20)

610021 Mountains and Movies (1896-1930), Christian Quendler (Winter 2017/18)

610021 Mountain/Film/Studies, Christian Quendler (Summer 2017)

BA and MA Theses

Batruel, Elina Pia. Alpinist Protagonists: Reframing the Hero in Contemporary Mountain Film (BA), Eva-Maria Müller, 2020.

Büttner, Maximilian. The Stage of the Mountains: A Transnational and Historical Survey of the Mountains as a Stage in 100 Years of Mountain Cinema (MA), Christian Quendler, 2019.

Mulser, Nadja. Girls Speak Wild – Indigenous and Western Women Communicate with Animals in Literature and Film (MA), Christian Quendler, 2022. Ausgezeichnet mit Kanada-Preis, 2022.

Lehmann, Benita. Transnational Mountain Cinema: Re-figuring Mountains in Force Majeure (2014), Mountain (2017), and Snowpiercer (2013) (MA), Christian Quendler, 2023.

Tiefenbach, Selina. The Athletic Sublime: An Ecocritical Reading of Lizzy Hawker’s Runner: A Short Story About a Long Run (MA), Christian Quendler, 2023.