**Spam**: [ecrea] Conference: #Digitization. Theories, Concepts and Projects in Cultural Fields - 12.-14. June 2014, Hamburg

#Digitization. Theories, Concepts and Projects in Cultural Fields


12.-14. June 2014,

Hamburg, Institute for Folklore Studies / Cultural Anthropology



3. International Working Conference of the Commission for
?Digitization in Every Day Life? in the German Society for Cultural
Anthropology and Folklore Studies;

Concept and Organisation: Prof. Dr. Gertraud Koch


(Bilingual Conference: German and English)



organized by

the Commission for ?Digitization of Everyday Life? in the German
Society for Cultural Anthropology and Folklore Studies

and the Institute for Folklore Studies /Cultural Anthropology, Hamburg



Funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft



<http://www.goingdigital.de/digitization/> www.goingdigital.de/digitization/

Contact: <mailto:(goingdigital /at/ uni-hamburg.de)> (goingdigital /at/ uni-hamburg.de)



Within a relatively short time span, digital technologies have
intruded into all parts of life. At the same time, technologies
themselves keep evolving and are constantly being refined. Terminal
points of these refinements do not seem discernible yet, and thus
further innovations will continue to enter everyday practice. The
international working conference takes up discussions in this context
of the digitization and mediatization of modern life worlds. It
addresses the widely claimed necessity to reflect these changes in
cultural theory.



The bilingual conference (German and English) takes on national and
international approaches on digitization. It discusses what
digitization means in diverse cultural fields and sharpens the
anthropological understanding by contrasting it with ideas from
neighboring disciplines, such as media studies, sociology, or museum
studies. It aspires to provide space for extensive debate and to
discursively develop approaches from the perspective of cultural
anthropology. In this spirit a major part of the conference will be
conducted in workshop sessions which are going to be based on
preliminary readings of different theoretical or methodical aspects,
discussed within the workshops themselves. Prior to the conference,
these texts are going to be provided via the online platform
<https://iversty.org> un.iversty.org to promote well informed
discussions.



Complementary to the workshops, three keynotes, held by leading
scientists in the field of digitization from India, Germany and
Canada, are going to offer a range of cultural-analytical perspectives
and approaches. They discuss the foundational relationships between
man and media (Manfred Faßler, Frankfurt: Anthropologie des Medialen),
the miscellaneous surfaces provided by the internet as an icon for the
digitization of everyday live (Nishant Shah, Bangalore: Remembering to
Forget: Encounters with the digital self (Costis Dallas, Toronto:
curation theory, digital curation and cultural heritage knowledge).
Furthermore, links between academic work and innovative cultural
projects, such as smartphone applications connecting locations in the
city with local museums, are going to be the focus of the section
?Digital Hamburg and beyond?.






Program







Thursday, 12.06.2014




12:30     Arrival & Check In

14:00     Welcome, Opening Addresses and Introduction by Gertraud
Koch, Hamburg

15:00     Keynote 1: Nishant Shah, Bangalore: Remembering to Forget:
Encounters with the digital self

16:45     Coffee Break

17:00     Digital Hamburg and beyond: Local media productions in
cultural fields

19:30     Commission Meeting ?Digitalisierung im Alltag? in der dgv






Friday, 13.06.2013




9:00        Keynote 2: Manfred Faßler, Frankfurt: Anthropologie des Medialen

10:30     Workshop-Session 1

13:00     Lunch

14:00     Workshop-Session 2

16:30     Coffee Break

17:00     Panel Discussion

19:30     Conference Dinner




Saturday, 14.06.2014




9.30        Keynote 3: Costis Dallas, Toronto: Curation Theory.
Digital curation and cultural heritage knowledge

11:00     Coffee Break

11:30     Summing-up and Conclusion: Workshops and Key Notes

12:30     END




Workshops in English




-       When ethnography meets German media theory, Dr. Götz Bachmann,
Goldsmith College London/Dr. Paula Bialski, Leuphana Universität
Lüneburg

-       Wie und was erzählen (mit) Geodaten?--What (to) do (with)
geodata?, Dr. Ina Dietzsch, Basel (Bilingual WS)

-       Ethnography of digital infrastructures, Prof. Dr. Gertraud
Koch, Hamburg

-       The Heuristic Potential and Limits of Program & Script, Dr.
Carsten Ochs, Darmstadt

-       Digital Marx. Towards a Political Economy of Distributed
Media, Dr. Andreas Wittel, Nottingham

-       Anthropologie des Medialen (english title tba), Dr. Alexander
Schwinghammer, Weimar




Workshops in German




-       Mash up Culture, Prof. Dr. Joan Kristin Bleicher, Hamburg

-       Wie und was erzählen (mit) Geodaten?--What (to) do (with)
geodata?, Dr. Ina Dietzsch, Basel (Bilingual WS)

-       Medienweltliche Ethnografie, Dr. Ute Hohlfelder, Zürich

-       Persistenz und Rekombination als Modus des soziokulturellen
Wandels, Prof. Dr. Klaus Schönberger, Zürich

-       Jede Kopie ein Original? Vom Sinn und Unsinn kultureller
Identifizierungen, Dr. Christian Schönholz, Marburg



For further information considering the workshops or the conference
please visit: <http://www.goingdigital.de/digitization/>
http://www.goingdigital.de/digitization/



Registration via <http://www.goingdigital.de/digitization/>
http://www.goingdigital.de/digitization/ until at least one month
before the conference. Please do register additionally for the
workshops you do want to participate in. Please do keep in mind, that
the number of participants for each workshop is limited. Once a
workshop is registered to its limit, it will be closed for further
registrations.



In case you do not want to participate in any workshop, you may
register until 1st June 2014.



Registration Fee             48,00 ?, including the Conference Dinner

Reduced Fee                    20,00 ? or 30,00 ? including the
Conference Dinner

(Reduced fee for students, people on social welfare, unemployment
relief, parenting time)



Payment is made via money transfer before the start of the conference.





We are looking forwards to welcome you at our conference!



For any further questions feel free to contact us via
<mailto:(goingdigital /at/ uni-hamburg.de)> (goingdigital /at/ uni-hamburg.de)



Kind regards



Prof. Dr. Gertraud Koch & the Conference Team



_____________________________________________________________________________



Going Digital

Kommission 'Digitalisierung im Alltag' in der Deutschen Gesellschaft
für Volkskunde /

Commission for 'Digitization in Every Day Life' in the German Society
for Cultural Anthropology and Folklore Studies



Vertreten durch:

Prof. Dr. Gertraud Koch

Institut für Volkskunde/Kulturanthropologie, Universität Hamburg

Fakultät für Geisteswissenschaften - FB Kulturgeschichte und Kulturkunde

Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1 (West), D-20146 Hamburg

(00 49) 040-42838-4974



Kontakt: <mailto:(goingdigital /at/ uni-hamburg.de)> (goingdigital /at/ uni-hamburg.de)







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