[Air-L] Digital Crossroads. Media, Migration and Diaspora in a Transnational Perspective, Utrecht University 28-30 June, 2012
Leurs, K.H.A. (Koen)
K.H.A.Leurs at uu.nl
Wed Jun 20 03:26:43 PDT 2012
Apologies for crossposting!
The international conference 'Digital Crossroads. Media, Migration and Diaspora in a Transnational Perspective' will take place in Utrecht next week 28-29-30 June, 2012. The opening is Thursday 28 June at 9.45 in the Aula of the Academic Building. For more information please find the programma overview attached. The full programme with abstracts and bios is available online:
http://www.digitalcrossroads.nl
For further information please e-mail: info at digitalcrossroads.nl<mailto:info at digitalcrossroads.nl>
Keynote speakers:
Shakuntala Banaji
London School of Economics and Political Science, UK
Kirsten Drotner
University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
Radhika Gajjala
Bowling Green State University, USA
Eva Lam
University of Northwestern, USA
Lisa Nakamura
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA
Liesbet van Zoonen
Loughborough University, UK and Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands
Because of the disjunctive and unstable interplay of commerce, media, national policies, and consumer fantasies, ethnicity, once a genie contained in the bottle of some sort of locality (however large), has now become a global force, forever slipping in and through the cracks between states and borders – Appadurai 1996, p. 41, Modernity at Large
The rapid development of digital technologies has radically transformed ways of keeping in touch with home cultures and diasporic networks. Moreover, the notion of migration has undergone significant shifts, coming to signifyimaginaries on the move which are not necessarily linked to geographical displacement. The aim of this conference is to address the relationship between migration and digital technologies across national contexts and ethnic belonging. Migrancy embeds many of the local and global paradoxes that alsopertain to digital media with their compression of space and time. However, the link between the two fields is still under-theorized and in need of more situated and comparative analysis. Drawing from approaches from the humanities and social sciences (media theory, communication studies, learning sciences, gender studies, cultural studies, postcolonial theory, migration and transnational studies, among others), the primary aim of this conference is to explore how the study of digitalization and migration challenges existing notions of diaspora, identity, nation, family, learning, literacy, social networks, youth, body, gender and ethnicity, asking for new approaches and a rethinking of traditional social and cultural categories.
The conference comes at the end of a five-year High Potential project, entitled “Wired Up: Digital media as innovative socialization practices for migrant youth”, carried out by the Faculty of Humanities (project leader Dr. Sandra Ponzanesi) and the Faculty of Social Sciences (project leader Prof. Dr. Mariette de Haan) at Utrecht University in collaboration with Vanderbilt University, USA (Dr. Kevin Leander, Peabody College for Education). The project was funded by the Executive Board of Utrecht University to stimulate interdisciplinary research. See http://www.uu.nl/wiredup.
Chair
Dr Sandra Ponzanesi
Coordinator
Dr Fadi Hirzalla
Scientific committee
Prof Dr Mariette de Haan
Dr Kevin Leander
Conference commitee
Dr Koen Leurs
Dr Lisa Schwartz
Dr Fleur Prinsen
Asli Ünlosoy, MSC
Koen Leurs | Phd student Graduate Gender Programme | Utrecht University | Muntstraat 2a, 3512 BL Utrecht | tel. 030-253 7859 | K.H.A.Leurs at uu.nl<mailto:K.H.A.Leurs at uu.nl> | www.uu.nl/wiredup<http://www.uu.nl/wiredup> | www.koenleurs.net<http://www.koenleurs.net>
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