Stadt: Digitaler Workshop via ZOOM

Beginn: 2020-08-28

Ende: 2020-08-29

DIASPORA AND (POST-)DIGITALITYIMAGINED COMMUNITIES IN CYBERSPACE

Digital workshop (via ZOOM) – University of Bremen
Organizers: Shola Adenekan, Julia Borst, Linda Maeding

PROGRAM

28 August 2020

10-10:30
Opening & introduction

10:30-11:15
Koen Leurs (Utrecht): Smartphones as personal digital archives? Recentering migrant authority as curating and storytelling subjects

11:15-11:40
Ricarda de Haas (Wien): African Diasporic Literatures and/in the Virtual Public Space

11:40-12:05
Gisela Febel (Bremen): How to shape black diasporic identity in France by reading (about) literature – Some remarks on the influence of literary criticism in Francophone African diasporic websites

12:05-12:25
Break

12:25-12:50
James Yeku (Kansas): The Diaspora Inflections of Nigerian Live Streaming Cultures

12:50-13:15
Elizabeth Abena Osei (Düsseldorf): Wakanda Africa Do You See? Reading Black Panther as a De-Colonial Film Through the Lens of the Sankofa Theory

13:40-14:05
Johanna Vollmeyer (Madrid): „Dystopische Diaspora“ in der postdigitalen Ära – Sibylle Bergs Roman GRM

14:05-14:30
Julia Brühne & Hauke Kuhlmann (Bremen): ‘Extended Diaspora’ – Zu Vergemeinschaftungsphänomenen im digitalen Zeitalter

29 August 2020

10:00-10:15
Opening

10:15-11:00
Antoinette Torres Soler (Zaragoza): Activismo digital, otredad y nuevas alternativas del poder

11:00-11:25
Patricia Rocha Antonelli (Tarragona): “Me quiero ir a vivir a España.” Argentinos y argentinas en proceso migratorio. Incursionando en Facebook

11:25-11:50
Adrián Menéndez de la Cuesta (Madrid): Literatura en redes sociales como eje de la diáspora queer en español

11:50-12:10
Break

12:10-12:35
Danae Gallo González (Giessen): Afropunk’s digital imagined community on Instagram: politics of (dis-) identification

12:35-13:00
Carolina Falcão (Pernambuco): A New Generation of Brazilian Political Exiles? Notes on remembrance, estrangement, and imagination in the post-Bolsonaro diáspora

13:00-13:20
Break

13:20-13:45
Miriam Llamas Ubieto (Madrid): Vor der Zunahme der Zeichen: hacia una poética diaspórica postdigital

13:45-14:30
Concluding discussion

Conference languages are: English, Spanish and German.

Open to an interested audience. Please contact maeding@uni-bremen.de to get access to the ZOOM meeting.

This workshop is organized by the research lab Digital Diaspora – Imagined Communities in Cyberspace of the interdisciplinary and collaborative research platform „Worlds of Contradiction“ (U Bremen).

With the support of: DFG (German Research Foundation), Institut für postkoloniale und transkulturelle Studien (Inputs), Institut für kulturwissenschaftliche Deutschlandstudien (Ifkud), University of Bremen.

Beitrag von: Julia Borst

Redaktion: Robert Hesselbach