Writing Diaspora in the 21st Century: Transmedial Passages in Postdigital Times / Escribir la diáspora en el siglo XXI: Pasajes transmediales en la era postdigital

International Workshop
Universidad Complutense de Madrid
30-31 May 2024

Organizers: Julia Borst (U Bremen) & Linda Maeding (UCM)

PROGRAM

30 May 2024, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Edificio A, Sala de Juntas

11:30-12:00 — Opening & Welcome Speech
Nuria Sánchez Madrid, Research group leader GINEDIS (UCM)
Julia Borst (U Bremen) & Linda Maeding (UCM)

12:00-13:30 — Panel 1

Ana León-Távora (Salem College):
Afro-Humorism in Post-Digital Times: An Anti-Racist Response from Spain’s Afro-Diaspora

Joana Passos (U Minho):
Afro-Portuguese Music in Digital Platforms: Controversies and Current Debates

Rosalía Cornejo-Parriego (U Ottawa):
Writing the barrio in Times of Pandemic: Barrionalismos by Lucía Mbomío

15:30-17:00 — Panel 2

Mourad El Fahli (Mohammed V University Rabat):
Reviving Cultural Roots through Music: Exploring the Impact of Moroccan Music on the Moroccan Jewish Community in the Diaspora

Kathleen Gyssels (Antwerp U):
For the Cybermigrant the Cyber-rime is the Future: Régine Robin and “Cyber-rime” as a New Way of Dealing with the Planetary Jewish Diaspora (online)

Cristián H. Ricci (UC Merced):
Beats and Beliefs: Miss Raisa’s Digital Activism and the Quest for Identity, Integration, and Empowerment

17:30-18:30 — Panel 3

Hanna Maria Hofmann (TU Dortmund):
Zuhause im Digitalen? Zur Medialität (post-)migrantischen Erzählens in der deutschen Gegenwartsliteratur

Kyung-Ho Chang (ZfL Berlin):
Der diasporische Facebook-Roman in der postmigrantischen Gesellschaft

19:30-21:00, Goethe Institut Madrid

Migrantenstadl: Audiovisuelle Performance, Lesung und Gespräch mit Tunay Önder
(performance in German)

31 May 2024, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Edificio A, Aula A-318

09:30-11:00 — Panel 4

Gonzalo Baptista & Nicolino Applauso (Morgan State U):
Healing and Belonging in Black-owned Cultural Spaces in Italy and Spain

Ludovica Carini & Silvia Mazzucotelli Salice (U Cattólica del Sacro Cuore Milano):
Unveiling Home: Embodied Imaginaries in the Non-Geographical Diaspora of Italian Afro-descendant Fashion Creatives

Kaimé Guerrero Valencia (FU Berlin):
Entanglements of Diasporic Interventions

11:30-13:00 — Panel 5

Nelson Sindze Wembe (U Bremen):
Transnational and Transmedial Ways of Being Cameroonian in Social Networks

Gisela Febel (U Bremen):
“Blackfeminism in France: What’s Going On?” – The Post-Migrant and Transmedial Writing of Laura Nsafou

Mohammed Muharram (U Bremen):
The Mediterranean as a Narrative Nexus: Syrian Diaspora’s Transmedia Digital Storytelling

15:00-16:30 — Panel 6

Claudia Sackl (U Zurich):
Poetry beyond the Page: Exploring the Poetics and Politics of (E)Motion in Contemporary Afrodiasporic Literatures from Germanophone Europe

Francisco Fuentes Antrás (UAM):
A Re-Imagined Identity Positioning of the Diasporic Writer in exiledwriters.co.uk

Laura Piccolo (Roma Tre U):
Rusia fuera de Rusia 2.0: diáspora, literatura y redes sociales

19:30 Cultural activity (to be confirmed)

This workshop is a collaboration of the “Digital Diaspora” Research Lab and the Interdisciplinary and Collaborative Research Platform “Worlds of Contradiction” (U Bremen), the ERC Starting Grant AFROEUROPECYBERSPACE (101110473, U Bremen) and the UCM Research Group “Normativity, Emotions, Discourse and Society (GINEDIS) (U Complutense de Madrid)