[I-LanD Research Centre] CfP International Conference "Indigenous Resistance in the Digital Age: the Politics of Language, Media and Culture" (October 27-30, 2021 - University of Naples "L'Orientale")

[I-LanD Interuniversity Research Centre]

Dear all,

The I-LanD Research Centre is delighted to share the Call for Papers for the International Conference "Indigenous Resistance in the Digital Age: the Politics of Language, Media and Culture" (University of Naples "L'Orientale", Conference convenor: Anna Mongibello), which will be held online on Zoom, October 27-30, 2021.

The conference aims at broadening the current critical debate on creative Indigenous resistance in digital environments so as to include a combination of theoretical approaches and methodologies that range from Indigenous Studies, Critical Discourse Analysis, Corpus Linguistics, Multimodal Analysis, Media Studies, among others, that may offer new perspectives and insights. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Facebook, Twitter and other social networks as new frontiers for Indigenous activists
- Corpora, annotation schemes and other resources and methods for analyzing Indigenous resistance
- Linguistic, multimodal, critical analysis of dissent and online struggles
- Metaphors, tropes, narratives and other devices used in Indigenous digital activism on social media
- Language, memory and Indigeneity in virtual worlds
- Sovereignty, Indigenous lands and the cyberspace
- Online/offline Indigenous self-representations and their multiple expressions
- Responses to online anti-Indigenous racism
- Indigenous (self- and other) representations in video-games
- Contemporary online Indigeneity and global connectivity
- Indigenous knowledge, artificial intelligence and digital worlds
- Technology and decolonization
- Emancipatory role of digital technology for Indigenous people
- Data, information, connectivity, digital technologies and control
- Educational technology (e.g., virtual labs, e-learning, mobile apps) for Indigenous languages revitalization
- Indigenous online voices and political participation
- Ancestral languages and cultural heritage in online environments
- The inclusion of Indigenous viewpoints in developing new technologies
- Indigenous Futurism
- Digital art as resistance
- Innovative forms of digital oratory and storytelling

The deadline for submitting an abstract is June 30, 2021.

The extended version of the CfP is available online at https://www.indigenousresistanceconference.com/call-for-papers

Confirmed keynote speakers: Bronwyn Carlson, Head of the Department of Indigenous Studies (Macquarie University, Australia); Alexandra Georgakopoulou, Professor of Discourse Analysis and Sociolinguistics (King's College, UK); Emma La Rocque, Professor of Indigenous Studies, Cree/Métis activist and poet (University of Manitoba, Canada).

For more information and updates, please visit https://www.indigenousresistanceconference.com/ or send an email to inres2021 at gmail.com<mailto:inres2021 at gmail.com>

Please, feel free to share this CfP with colleagues/students/PhDs who may be interested.

Kind regards,
Antonio

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