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Date: Wed, 29 May 2019 23:48:57
From: Naomi Wells [naomi.wells at sas.ac.uk]
Subject: Digital Diasporas: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Digital Diasporas: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Short Title: DD2019
Date: 06-Jun-2019 - 07-Jun-2019
Location: London, United Kingdom
Contact: Naomi Wells
Contact Email: naomi.wells at sas.ac.uk
Meeting URL: https://crosslanguagedynamics.blogs.sas.ac.uk/digital-diasporas/
Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Computational Linguistics; Sociolinguistics
Meeting Description:
The Digital Diasporas international conference will take place at Senate House
(University of London) on Thursday 6 and Friday 7 June 2019. Bringing together
leading researchers from across disciplinary boundaries, the conference will
explore the relationship between digital technologies and diasporic
communities, with particular attention to linguistic and cultural diversity.
This conference is funded as part of the translingual strand of the AHRC
‘Cross-Language Dynamics: Reshaping Community’ project and is led by the
Institute of Modern Languages Research and Digital Humanities at the School of
Advanced Study (University of London).
Invited keynote and panel speakers include [more to be announced]:
Jannis Androutsopoulos (Universität Hamburg);
Tobias Blanke (King’s College London);
Alexandra Georgakopoulou (King’s College London);
Agnieszka Lyons (Queen Mary, University of London);
Mirca Madianou (Goldsmiths, University of London);
Sandra Ponzanesi (Utrecht University);
Roopika Risam (Salem State University);
Caroline Tagg (The Open University);
Funda Ustek-Spilda (London School of Economics/Goldsmiths);
Janet Zmroczek (British Library)
Organising Committee:
Francielle Carpenedo, Doctoral Researcher, School of Advanced Study
Saskia Huc-Hepher, Senior Lecturer in French, University of Westminster
Dong Nguyen, Research Fellow, Alan Turing Institute
Naomi Wells, Research Fellow, School of Advanced Study
Jane Winters, Chair of Digital Humanities, School of Advanced Study
Registration for the conference is open until 3 June, with day tickets also
available at: https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/19276
Program:
Thursday 6 June
9:00:
Registration
Fyvie Hall, University of Westminster, 309 Regent Street
9:45:
Opening Remarks
10:00:
Keynote 1
Chair: Naomi Wells
Mirca Madianou. Technocolonialism: Digital Humanitarianism as Extraction
11:00: Coffee Break
11:30:
Panel A: Race, Identity and Inequality
Venue: Fyvie Hall
Chair: Cangbai Wang
Francesca Sobande. Black Digital Diaspora and (Post)colonial Global
Hierarchies
Gaoheng Zhang. Digital Media and Recent Chinese Migration to Italy
Panel B: Combining Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches
Venue: UG05
Chair: Renata Brandão
Pedro Oiarzabal. Affective Capital Online and the Case of Diaspora Basques on
Facebook
Quentin Lobbé. Where the Dead Blogs Are: A Disaggregated Exploration of Web
Archives to Reveal Extinct Migrant Collectives
Oksana Morgunova. 'Deciding on the Future Without Sharing the Past': Migrants'
Digital Networks in the Post-Referendum Scotland
13:00: Lunch
14:00:
Panel C: Transnational Cultural Production
Venue: Fyvie Hall
Chair: Francielle Carpenedo
Gergely Szabó. Linguistic Activism Online? - The Case of the Hungarian
Örökségünk 'Our Heritage' Project
Jennifer Duggan and Anne Dahl. A Challenge to Anglo Pop-Cultural Hegemony in
the Era of Multicompetence: SKAM Fans, Translation, Identity, and Power
Panel D: (Re)producing Diasporas Online
Venue: UG05
Chair: Joseph Ford
Beatrice Ivey. Colonial Nostalgia and Urban Topography in 'Pied-Noir' Websites
Julia Borst and Danae Gallo González. Afrodiasporic Communities 2.0 - or: How
Identificational Spaces of Afrodescendance Are (Re-)Negotiated Online on the
Iberian Peninsula
15:00: Coffee Break
15:30:
Plenary Panel 1: Digital Media and the Diasporic Self
Chair: María Soledad Montañez
Sandra Ponzanesi. Diasporas: Migration, Media and Affect
Alex Georgakopoulou. The Digital Curation of Diasporic Selves: Technological
Affordances, Algorithms & the Role of Language
18:30:
Public Lecture (in collaboration with Digital Humanities and the Language Acts
& Worldmaking project at King's College London)
Venue: Lecture Theatre 1, Bush House
Opening remarks: Paul Spence. Chair: Jane Winters
Roopika Risam. Mobilizing New Digital Worlds: The Stakes of Postcolonial
Digital Humanities
19:45: Reception
Friday 7 June
9:30: Keynote 2
Chair: Dong Nguyen
Jannis Androutsopoulos. Mediational Repertoires and Diasporic Connectivity:
>From Senegal to Oslo and Back Again
10:30: Coffee Break
11:00:
Plenary Panel 2: Polish Communities in the UK: Diasporic Spaces and Media in
the Past and Present
Chair: Saskia Huc-Hepher
Janet Zmroczek. Polish Diaspora Communities in the UK 1830-1863: Re-Examining
Diasporic Identities, Cultural Spaces and Cultural Heritage Creation
Caroline Tagg and Agnieszka Lyons. Digital Dynamics: The Development of Polish
Migrants' Inter-Semiotic Repertoires in Mobile Messaging Interactions
12:15:
Lightning Panel A
Venue: Fyvie Hall
Chair: Jane Winters
Fortunat Miarintsoa Andrianimanana. The Malagasy Diasporic Websites: an
Exploratory Study
Hannah Connell. Curating Culturally Themed Collections Online: The 'Russia in
the UK' Special Collection, UK Web Archive
Rana Arafat. Towards a New Theoretical Model of Mediatized Diasporas, Online
Political Participation and Digital Activism: The Case of Arab Refugees in
Switzerland.
Guillermo Echauri. Blurring Boundaries: Social Media Usage and Streaming
Consumption by International Students Living in Barcelona
Lightning Panel B
Venue: UG05
Chair: Francielle Carpenedo
Maria Jimenez. The Digital Companion: Accessibility, Communication and
Information Hub For Migrants, Local Population and Public Administrations
Elena Ruiz Cortés. The Role of Digital Technologies in Supporting Diasporic
Communities´ First Experiences in the Host Country
Indra Ekmanis. Reimagining Stakeholders: Digital Humanities and Public Media
in Migration Storytelling
E. Marie Thaut. Language Documentation and Description with(in) a Digital
Diaspora: The SOAS Sylheti Project
13:00: Lunch
14:00:
Panel E: Methodological Reflections
Venue: Fyvie Hall
Chair: Dong Nguyen
Iris Lim. Digital Ethnography vs. User Experience Research: Comparing
Approaches to Studying 'Users' in the Digital Government of Immigration
Belén Fernández Suárez, Antía Pérez Caramés and Tatiana López Gonsálves.
Spaniards in Paris: Analysis of the Role of Weak Ties for Intra-European
Mobility Strategies through an Imagined and Virtual Facebook Community
Panel F: Digital Discourse and Identity
Venue: UG05
Chair: Federica Mazzara
Mariza Georgalou, Theodora P. Saltidou and Eleni Griva. Greek Neomigrant
Identities in Social Media: A Discourse-Centred Online Ethnographic Study
Jin Kyeong Jung. Reconnecting to the Heritage Language and Culture through a
Digitally-Mediated Transborder Network
15:00: Coffee Break
15:20:
Plenary panel 3: Mapping Migrations
Chair: David Cantor
Dana Diminescu. e-Diasporas Atlas: Exploration and Cartography of Diasporas in
Digital Networks
Funda Ustek-Spilda. Ethics of Refugee Statistics and Social Imaginaries of
Migration
Tobias Blanke. Migration, Data, Humanitarian Apps and Platform Economies
17:00:
End
The full programme can be found at:
https://crosslanguagedynamics.blogs.sas.ac.uk/files/2019/05/DD-final-programme
.pdf
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