Diaspora and (Post-)Digitality Imagined Communities in Cyberspace

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

28 August 2020

29 August 2020

10:00-10:30 Opening & Introduction	10:00-10:15 Opening
Session 1 – Chair: Linda Maeding	Session 5 – Chair: Julia Borst
10:30-11:15 Koen Leurs (Utrecht): Smartphones as Personal Digital Archives? Recentering Migrant Authority as Curating and Storytelling Subjects	10:15-11:00 Antoinette Torres Soler (Zaragoza): Activismo digital, otredad y nuevas alternativas del pode
Session 2 – Chair: Julia Borst	Session 6 – Chair: Linda Maeding
11:15-11:40 Ricarda de Haas (Wien): African Diasporic Literatures and/in the Virtual Public Space	11:00-11:25 Patricia Rocha Antonelli (Tarragona): “Me quiero ir a vivir a España.” Argentinos y argentinas en proceso migratorio. Incursionando en Facebook
11:40-12:00 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	11:25-11:50 Adrián Menéndez de la Cuesta (Madrid): Literatura en redes sociales como eje de la diáspora queer en español
12:05-12:25 Break	11:50-12:10 Break
Session 3 – Chair: Shola Adenekan	Session 7 – Chair: Julia Brühne
12:25-12:50 James Yeku (Kansas): The Diaspora Inflections of Nigerian Live Streaming Cultures	12:10-12:35 Danae Gallo González (Giessen): Afropunk’s Digital Imagined Community on Instagram: Politics of (Dis-) Identification
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	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
13:15-13:40 Break	13:00-13:20 Break
Session 4 – Chair: Gisela Febel	Session 8 – Chair: Julia Brühne
13:40-14:05 Johanna Vollmeyer (Madrid): „Dystopische Diaspora“ in der postdigitalen Ära – Sibylle Bergs Roman GRM	13:20-13:45 Miriam Llamas Ubieto (Madrid): Vor der Zunahme der Zeichen: hacia una poética diaspórica postdigital
14:05-14:30 Julia Brühne & Hauke Kuhlmann (Bremen): ‘Extended Diaspora’ – Zu Vergemeinschaftungsphänomenen im digitalen Zeitalter	13:45-14:30 Concluding discussion

Conference languages are: English, Spanish, and German.

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.