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[Commlist] Online conference: 'Digital Transformations: The Humanities in Challenging Times ‘

Mon Sep 06 09:27:07 GMT 2021





We invite you to the online conference 'Digital Transformations:The Humanities in Challenging Times ‘, hosted by Humlab, at Umeå University, November 16-17, 2021. Attendance is free, but please register here: https://www.eventbrite.se/e/digital-transformations-registration-157481113249 <https://www.eventbrite.se/e/digital-transformations-registration-157481113249>.

We live in times of changes on different levels – environmental, social, political, educational, etc. The Covid-19 pandemic, for example, fueled a great deal of digital re-location as it undeniably changed how we think about and perform our work, education, and personal relations, as well as how it has affected the world on a political and economic scale.  Other ongoing crises of global and local impact, some radical and others more discreet,  make us hope for a time 'after'. But what is left to go back to – and more importantly – what do we wish to return to? How will academia  face these challenges and explore the new opportunities we now have?   

The conference, which marks and celebrates the 20th anniversary of Humlab, will address and give examples of how humanities scholars – engaged in digital aspects of culture and society – are involved in large- and small-scale transformations here and now, and for the future to come. In a range of themed sessions, addressing topics such as artificial intelligence, environmental and social sustainability, reasons to believe, higher education, visual cultures, and academic intersections and computational text analysis, invited scholars will reflect on current issues of digital transformations, challenges and changes.

Keynote Speakers:
-‘TikTok, Internet Celebrity,  and Small Business Cultures’ Crystal Abidin, Associate  Professor,  Curtin University (Keynote presented in collaboration with DIGSUM) -‘Envisioning a Postcolonial Digital Humanities in Theory and Praxis’ Roopika Risam, Chair of Secondary and Higher Education and Associate Professor of Education and English, Salem State University -‘Smart Forests and the Vegetalization of Digital Technologies’ Jennifer Gabrys, Professor of Media, Culture and Environment at Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge -‘Threats  to the  humanities  in a  digital moment’ John Durham Peters, Maria Rosa Menocal Professor of English and of Film and Media Studies, Yale University
Sessions:
- 'Academic intersections and computational text analysis' w/David Mimno, Julianne Nyhan, Ted Underwood - 'Breathing bodies and artificial minds: Human-AI interactions in everyday life' w/Virginia Dignum, Per Sundström, Amanda Lagerkvist, Charles Ess - 'Digital transformations and environmental challenges’ w/Toby Miller, Annika Egan Sjölander, Philip Buckland, Kyle Devine - 'Power, influence(rs)  and politics – new forms of visual  cultures’ w/Johanna Arnesson, Sophie Bishop, Mari Lehto, Katrin Tiidenberg (Session presented in collaboration with DIGSUM) - 'Practices of acceptance and resistance in a digital age' w/Lars Samuelsson, Lisen Selander, Esperanza Miyake & Adi Kuntsman - 'Reasons to Believe: Religion and Rituals in the Digital Age' w/Stefan Gelfgren, Johanna Sumiala, Mikhail Suslov - 'Digital Transformations in Higher Education' w/ Jenny Eklöf, Anna-Lill Drugge, Hanna-Máret Outakoski, Satish Strömberg

For more information about the conference, and registration, go to: www.umu.se/en/humlab/digital-transformations/ <http://www.umu.se/en/humlab/digital-transformations/>


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