[ecrea] Digital Crossroads. Media, Migration and Diaspora in a Transnational Perspective

The international conference 'Digital Crossroads. Media, Migration and Diaspora in a Transnational Perspective' will take place in Utrecht next week 2=
8-29-30 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 overv=
iew attached. The full programme with abstracts and bios is available onlin=
e:
http://www.digitalcrossroads.nl

For further information please e-mail:(info /at/ digitalcrossroads.nl)<mailto:inf=
(o /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 Netherlan=
ds


Because of the disjunctive and unstable interplay of commerce, media, natio=
nal policies, and consumer fantasies, ethnicity, once a genie contained in =
the bottle of some sort of locality (however large), has now become a globa=
l force, forever slipping in and through the cracks between states and bord=
ers =96 Appadurai 1996, p. 41, Modernity at Large

The rapid development of digital technologies has radically transformed way=
s of keeping in touch with home cultures and diasporic networks. Moreover, =
the notion of migration has undergone significant shifts, coming to signify=
imaginaries on the move which are not necessarily linked to geographical di=
splacement. The aim of this conference is to address the relationship betwe=
en migration and digital technologies across national contexts and ethnic b=
elonging. Migrancy embeds many of the local and global paradoxes that alsop=
ertain 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 mor=
e situated and comparative analysis. Drawing from approaches from the human=
ities and social sciences (media theory, communication studies, learning sc=
iences, gender studies, cultural studies, postcolonial theory, migration an=
d transnational studies, among others), the primary aim of this conference =
is to explore how the study of digitalization and migration challenges exis=
ting notions of diaspora, identity, nation, family, learning, literacy, soc=
ial 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, enti=
tled =93Wired Up: Digital media as innovative socialization practices for m=
igrant youth=94, carried out by the Faculty of Humanities (project leader D=
r. Sandra Ponzanesi) and the Faculty of Social Sciences (project leader Pro=
f. Dr. Mariette de Haan) at Utrecht University in collaboration with Vander=
bilt University, USA (Dr. Kevin Leander, Peabody College for Education). Th=
e project was funded by the Executive Board of Utrecht University to stimul=
ate interdisciplinary research. Seehttp://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 =DCnlosoy, MSC


Koen Leurs | Phd student Graduate Gender Programme | Utrecht University | M=
untstraat 2a, 3512 BL Utrecht | tel. 030-253 7859 |(K.H.A.Leurs /at/ uu.nl)<mailt=
o:(K.H.A.Leurs /at/ uu.nl)>  |www.uu.nl/wiredup<http://www.uu.nl/wiredup>  |www.ko=
enleurs.net<http://www.koenleurs.net>


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