[Commlist] "Digital Diasporas: Interdisciplinary Perspectives' conference

*Digital Diasporas: Interdisciplinary Perspectives*

6/7 June 2019

Venues:  Fyvie Hall (University of Westminster), 309 Regent Street, 
London W1B 2HW and Bush House (King’s College London), 30 Aldwych, 
London WC2B 4BG

Funded as part of the translingual strand of the AHRC Open World 
Research Initiative ‘Cross-Language Dynamics: Reshaping Community’ 
project, and led by the Institute of Modern Languages Research and 
Digital Humanities at the School of Advanced Study (University of London).

We are delighted to announce the final programme for the Digital 
Diasporas conference, available 
at:https://crosslanguagedynamics.blogs.sas.ac.uk/files/2019/05/DD-final-programme.pdf

Registration for the conference is open until 3 June, with day tickets 
also available at:https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/19276

*Full conference fee (2 days)*
Standard rate: £90
Concession rate (students/unwaged): £60

*Daily conference fee*
Standard rate: £50
Concession rate: £35

Booking is also open for thepublic lecture by*Roopika Risam (Salem State 
University) on 'Mobilizing New Digital Worlds: The Stakes of 
Postcolonial Digital Humanities’*, in collaboration with Digital 
Humanities and the Language Acts & Worldmaking project at King’s College 
London.

For those not already attending the conference, additional places at the 
lecture can be booked 
at:https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/19830

*Keynotes and Plenary Panels:*

Mirca Madianou (Goldsmiths) 'Technocolonialism: Digital humanitarianism 
as extraction' & Jannis Androutsopoulos (Universität Hamburg/Multiling, 
University of Oslo) 'Mediational repertoires and diasporic connectivity: 
from Senegal to Oslo and back again'.

*Plenary Panels: *

Digital Media and the Diasporic Self - Alex Georgakopoulou (King’s 
College London), Sandra Ponzanesi (Utrecht University)

Polish Communities in the UK: Diasporic Spaces and Media in the Past and 
Present - Janet Zmroczek (British Library), Caroline Tagg (Open 
University) & Agnieszka Lyons (Queen Mary, University of London)

Mapping Migrations - Dana Diminescu (Télécom ParisTech/DiasporasLab), 
Funda Ustek-Spilda (London School of Economics), Tobias Blanke (King’s 
College London)

Conference 
homepage:**_https://crosslanguagedynamics.blogs.sas.ac.uk/digital-diasporas/_

Conference hashtag: #DigitalDiasporas

*Conference Committee:*

Francielle Carpenedo, Doctoral Researcher, School of Advanced Study

Saskia Huc-Hepher, Senior Lecturer in French, University of Westminster

Dong Nguyen, Research Fellow, Alan Turing Institute

Naomi Wells, Research Fellow, School of Advanced Study

Jane Winters, Chair of Digital Humanities, School of Advanced Study


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