Writing Diaspora in the 21st Century: Medial Transitions in Postdigital Times

Opening & Welcome Speech – 11:30-12:00

Isabel Durán Giménez-Rico, Dean of the Faculty of Philology (UCM)

Grzegorz Bak, Director of the Department of German and Slavic Philologies (UCM)

Nuria Sánchez Madrid, Research group co-leader GINEDIS (UCM)

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

 Panel 1 – 12:00-13:30

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

Panel 2 – 15:30-17:00

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 presentation) 

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

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

Panel 3 – 09:30-11:00

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

Panel 5 – 11:30-13:30

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 (online presentation) 

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

Panel 6 – 15:00-16:30

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