[Air-L] Program + Stream: Workshop "Karens, Tradwives and MechaHitlers", 14.11.2025

[Laura Niebling]

Hello everyone,

we are approaching November 14, 2025 (this Friday!) and our workshop „Karens, Tradwives and MechaHitlers: Internet Archetypes as Indicators of a Transatlantic, Collective Unconscious?" at the University of Regensburg. We have a full program with a great selection of international scholars ahead of us, with talks on a variety of „archetypes old and new“ (and especially post-Jung) of the post-digital sphere such as „the Gamer“, „the Schizo“, the „Tech Bro“, or „the Trickster“ in the first panel. The second panel of the day will revolve around myths of and in AI storytelling and the question how to map an algorithmic unconscious. The third panel will include figures like „Rambo“, „Tradwives“ and a reflection on gender as an archetypal category. 

We are delighted to wrap up the day with a keynote by Prof. Frances Corry, who will join us virtually from Pittsburgh. Her talk "Death, failure, closure, sunset: How we understand platform ends“ takes the idea of metaphors and the Internet as a (collective unconscious) myth and asks, what happens, if (and when) those platforms come to an end. 

Please find here the full program of the workshop, which will run from 9am - 5pm CET: https://www.uni-regensburg.de/en/university/news-events/news/news/14-11-2025_karens-tradwives-and-mechahitlers-internet-archetypes-as-indicators-of-a-transatlantic-collective-unconscious

We are hoping for a good run with our hybrid technology. If you want to join us virtually for a part of the program, just send me an informal email about the Zoom link. We are also planning for a publication, so if you cannot make it on the 14th, but are interested in pursuing this with us, just get in touch.

Kind regards,
Laura Niebling and Astrid Ensslin


Dr. Laura Niebling
DIMAS
University of Regensburg
Bajuwarenstraße 4
93059 Regensburg
laura.niebling at ur.de <mailto:laura.niebling at ur.de>

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Out now / Forthcoming:
Consent Capital: From Romantasy’s “Alpha Male Archetypes” toward a New Cultural Theory in Post-Digital Storytelling <https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.1177/14614448251375107> (New Media & Society 2025, 1-18)
Moving Image Memes (meson press, 2026, w. J Zündel, K. Pauliks & T. Heilmann)
Handbuch Digitale Medien und Methoden <https://link.springer.com/referencework/10.1007/978-3-658-36629-2> (Springer, 2025; w. F. Raczkowski & S. Stollfuß)
Escape from the Glass Prison <https://dspace-backend.ub.uni-siegen.de/server/api/core/bitstreams/a716236c-7b04-42f5-80e7-c0e3f11e2033/content> (Navigationen 25/1 2025, 117-127)