Migration and Mobility in a Digital Age: Paradoxes of Connectivity and Belonging Conference
Tuesday, April 10, 2018 – Wednesday, April 11, 2018 The Heyman Center, Second Floor Common Room
Sarah Cole (Dean of Arts and Sciences, Division of Humanities)
Sandra Ponzanesi (Utrecht University/Columbia University)
Radhika Gajjala (Bowling Green State University) Moderator Digital Cartographies ‘in’ Time
Alex Gil (Columbia University) “In The Same Boats”: Moving Maps and Cartographies of Intersections
Roopika Risam (Salem State University) Cartographies of the Living and the Dead: Mapping Global Migration
Anne McNevin (The New School) Time, Digital Media, and the Figure of the Migrant
Panel II Networks, Affects and Activism
Moderator: Jonathan Corpus Ong (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
Claudia Minchilli (Utrecht University) Somali Women in Postcolonial Italy: Identity Construction Through Digital Connectedness
Donya Alinejad (Utrecht University) Social Media and Feelings of Presence: Mobile Apps and Emotions in a Context of Transnational and Urban Mobility.
Radhika Gajjala (Bowling Green State University) Migration and Mobility in Gendered Indian Digital Social Media Spaces: Revisiting “Ghar and Bahir
Panel III Digital Migration in Europe
Moderator: Radha Hegde (New York University)
Melis Mevsimler (Utrecht University Divided Nation, Divided Diaspora: Crossroads of Gender and Homeland Politics in Everyday Lives of Migrant Women from Turkey in London
Myria Georgiou (London School of Economics/Annenberg School of Communication, USC) The Communication Architecture of Humanitarian Securitization: Communicative Politics of Reception at Europe’s Borderland.
Koen Leurs (Utrecht University) Connected Migrants and Digital Migration Studies in Europe
Panel IV
Cosmopolitan Interruptions
Moderator: Sandra Ponzanesi (Utrecht University/Columbia University)
Bruce Robbins (Columbia University) The Refugee and the Beneficiary
Frances Negrón-Muntaner (Columbia University) The Emptying Island: Puerto Rican Expulsion in Post-Maria Time
Wouter Omen (Utrecht University) Humanitarian Communication, Common Humanities Playground
Keynote Mirca Madianou (Goldsmith, University of London)
Technocolonialism: Digital Innovation and Data in Humanitarian Practice
Day 2, Heyman Center Common Room
Panel V Technologies for Change: Gaming, Piracy & Conviviality Moderator: Koen Leurs (Utrecht University)
Dennis Tenen (Columbia University) Global Book Piracy as Peer Preservation
Jonathan Corpus Ong/Maria Rovisco (University of Massachusetts, Amherst/University of Leicester)
Curating Conviviality
Joost Raessens (Utrecht University/NYU) Life as a Refugee: Games for Change
Panel VI Mediating Migration Moderator: Marianne Hirsch (Columbia University)
Laura Candidatu (Utrecht University) Digital Media and Diasporic Mothering: Romanian Diaspora in Amsterdam
Radha Hegde (New York University) Diasporic Itinerancy and Remediated Authenticities
Ato Quayson (New York University) Modes of the Selfie from Orality to Social Media
Panel VII Beyond Connectivity and Surveillance
Moderator: Myria Georgiou (London School of Economics/Annenberg School of Communication, USC)
Sandro Mezzadra (University of Bologna/The New School) The Border Regime as a Black Box? Migration, Logistics, and Digitalization in Europe and Beyond
Inderpal Grewal (Yale University) Digital Natives and Digital Immigrants: Racial logics of digital production.
Miriam Ticktin (The New School)
Re-imagining Border Technologies, Designing New Political Forms
Closing Keynote Chair: Sandra Ponzanesi
Arjun Appadurai (New York University)
Narrative Panic and the Edges of Europe
