Author: Julia

The presentation of Olga Usachova (U Padua) in the WoC Digitalities of War – Pl(r)ay for Ukraine event organized by the research lab “Digital Diaspora”, 25 June 2022. Introduction and chair: Stephan O. Görland (U Bremen)

© Olga Usachova

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OLGA USACHOVA (U PADUA): DIGITALITIES OF WAR – PL(R)AY FOR UKRAINE
27 JUNE 2022, 6.00-7.30 P.M.
ONLINE LECTURE

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Organizers: Dr. Stephan Görland & the Digital Diaspora Lab

Considering the recent ongoing war in the European continent after more than 75 years of peace and the predominant narrative of “never (war) again”, the Russian invasion of Ukraine showed that militarization could and should be explored not only by paying attention to the materiality but also to the use of information technologies. In this presentation, I aim to showcase the role of information and gaming technologies as a form of resistance to military invasion in Ukraine.

Olga Usachova, PhD in Social Sciences, Interactions, Communication, Cultural Constructions at the Department of Philosophy, Sociology, Education and Applied Psychology (FISPPA) University of Padua, Italy. Her main area of research is socio-technical assemblages in the field of migration and integration of migrants in a host community, as well as the social impact of mobile applications. Her works investigate the process of digitalization in society with attention to refugee apps and other digital initiatives for migrants.

Please register via E-Mail (diaspora@uni-bremen.de) until June 26, 6 PM.

KONTRAPUNKTE: WISSENSCHAFT IM WIDERSPRUCH

Digital Cosmopolitanism

Guest speaker: Sandra Ponzanesi (U Utrecht)
Discussants: Shola Adenekan (U Amsterdam), Stephan O. Görland (U Bremen) & Mark U. Stein (U Münster)
Introduction and Chair: Julia Borst & Linda Maeding (U Bremen)

This Kontrapunkte-event focuses on the controversy surrounding the concept of cosmopolitanism, which faces the challenges of a present characterized by increased mobility and omnipresent digitality.

On the one hand, „cosmopolitanism“ looks back on a solid tradition and history, but on the other hand, it has changed enormously in the face of increasing globalisation tendencies and post-colonial migration flows at the beginning of the 21st century. These transformations and renegotiations in flux, which are associated with the current understanding of „cosmopolitanism“, also diverge greatly depending on the disciplinary perspective.

Sandra Ponzanesi, Professor of Media, Gender and Postcolonial Studies at Utrecht University, critically examines digital cosmopolitanism as it is lived by today’s migrants and shows, among other things, the disproportion between digital connectivity and social injustice. The controversial and even contradictory meaning of digital cosmopolitanism in a context of post-colonial asymmetries of power as well as the semantic shifts of the concept of cosmopolitanism in the face of transnational migration and digital mobility will be critically examined and explored by fellow discussants from different disciplines.

This event will be held in English.

Please register here until January 24, 10AM.

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Im Zentrum der Kontrapunkte-Veranstaltung steht die Kontroverse um das Konzept des Kosmopolitanismus, das sich den Herausforderungen einer von gesteigerter Mobilität und omnipräsenter Digitalität geprägten Gegenwart stellen muss.

So blickt “Kosmopolitanismus” zwar einerseits auf eine solide Tradition und Geschichte zurück, hat sich aber andererseits angesichts zunehmender Globalisierungstendenzen und postkolonialer Migrationsströme zu Beginn des 21. Jahrhunderts enorm gewandelt. Diese sich im Fluss befindenden Transformationen und Neuverhandlungen, die mit dem gegenwärtigen Verständnis von “Kosmopolitanismus” verbunden sind, divergieren auch in Abhängigkeit von der fachlich-disziplinären Perspektive stark.

Sandra Ponzanesi, Professorin für Media, Gender und Postcolonial Studies an der Universität Utrecht, setzt sich kritisch mit dem digitalen Kosmopolitanismus auseinander, wie er von heutigen Migrant*innen gelebt wird, und zeigt u.a. das Missverhältnis auf zwischen digitaler Konnektivität und sozialer Ungerechtigkeit.

Die kontroverse und gar widersprüchliche Bedeutung von digitalem Kosmopolitanismus in einem Kontext postkolonialer Machtasymmetrien sowie die semantischen Verschiebungen des Konzepts des Kosmopolitanismus angesichts transnationaler Migration und digitaler Mobilität werden von den
Mit-Diskutanden aus unterschiedlichen Fachdisziplinen kritisch beleuchtet und in ihrem Potenzial ausgelotet.

Die Veranstaltung findet in englischer Sprache statt. Bitte melden Sie sich bis zum 24.01.22, 10 Uhr hier an.

 

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