CFR: Resistance and Subjectivities in the Digital Public Space – KU Leuven (Hybrid)
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From: Liesbeth Schoonheim <liesbeth....@HU-BERLIN.DE>
Institute of Philosophy
KU Leuven, Belgium
8th & 9th September 2022
Hybrid Conference
(All Times are Leuven, Belgium, UTC+2)
Email: dp...@ucm.es
Website: https://www.ucm.es/digitalpublicspace/events
Organizers: Liesbeth Schoonheim (Humboldt University Berlin), Katie Pleming (University of Edinburgh), and Cillian Ó Fathaigh (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
If you wish to attend the conference, online or in-person, please use the registration form here: https://forms.gle/REp83ZFhS7PZuU5C7.
Programme
Thursday, 8th of September 2022
1000 – 1015: Welcome
Liesbeth Schoonheim, Katie Pleming, and Cillian Ó Fathaigh
1015 – 1130: Keynote: Our Collective Fear of Death is a Dis-Ease of the Heart: On Grief, Grieving, and the Construction of the Black Feminist (Digital) Subject
Qrescent Mali Mason (Haverford College, Philadelphia).
1130 – 1145: Coffee Break
1145 – 1315: Panel 1: Bodies, Relationality and Digital Mobilization
Code Red: Digital mobilization of youth groups in the Global South
Titas Ganguly & Pratiti Ghosh
Resistance and embodiment in hybrid urban environments
Jakub Petri (The Jagiellonian University, Poland)
Online, offline, embodied. Public space as an assemblage
Federica Castelli (University of Roma Tre, Italy)
1315 – 1415: Lunch Break
1415 – 1545: Panel 2: Online Antagonism
“And We Go Live …”: Public Opinion, Media and Liveness
Cillian Ó Fathaigh (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain)
Algorithmic Frenemies. Toward a Catalogue of Digital Resistance
Anthony Longo (University of Antwerp, Belgium)
"They continue their archaic way of life here": An empirical analysis of masculinities and the reproduction of far-right narratives in the German digital public space
David Meier-Arendt (TU-Darmstadt, Germany)
1545–1600: Coffee Break
1600–1730: Panel 3: Digital Mediations of Subjectivity & Resistance
#vonhier: Challenging Hegemonic Narratives of Germanness through Hashtag Activism
Isabell Sluka (University of Connecticut, USA)
“Open, Inclusive, and Accessible”: Interrogating Social Justness and Open Government in Post Truth and Reconciliation Canada
Miranda Leibel (Carleton University, Canada)
Can We Still Become Who We Are? How Online Social Spaces Harm the Right to Identity-Experimentation (and Why we Need Communities of Forgiveness)
Lavinia Marin (TU Delft, Netherlands) & Janna van Grunsven (TU Delft, Netherlands)
1900: Conference Dinner
Friday, 9th of September 2022
0915 – 0930: Welcome
Liesbeth Schoonheim, Katie Pleming, and Cillian Ó Fathaigh
0930 – 1045: Keynote
Rosalind Gill (City, University of London)
1045 – 11:00: Coffee Break
1100 – 1230: Panel 4: Online Feminisms
‘Religion is for God and Orgasm is for All:’ Sexual Activism in the Moroccan Online Darijosphere After the 2011 Uprisings
Abdelmjid Kettioui (Moulay Ismail University of Meknès, Morocco)
“Intersecting Selfhood”
Agnieszka Roguski (Freie Universitat Berlin, Germany)
‘Feminism from Below’ and the Feminization of the Moroccan Digital Space: Women’s Digibility, Feminist Activism and Commodification of the Female
Younes Yassni (Abdelmalek Esaadi University, Morocco)
1230 – 1330: Lunch
13:30 – 1430: Panel 5: Finding Resistance
Resistance in Cancel Culture: The Case of the Twitter User Leyla Salinger
Büşra Sağlam (Koc University, Turkey)
Missing the forest for the trees: Thinking similarities in contemporary digital protest
Guilel Treiber (KU Leuven, Belgium)
14:30 – 1500: Round Table & Closing Remarks
-- Dr. Liesbeth Schoonheim ● Lehrbereich Theorie der Politik, Institut für Sozialwissenschaften, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Visiting address: Institut für Sozialwissenschaften, Universitätsstraße 3b, room 126