June 15-17, 2022
University of Milano-Bicocca (Italy)
Deadline: December 5, 2021
11th European Feminist Research Conference
https://11efrc.unimib.it/
Keynote Speakers: Jasbir Puar, Rutgers University, USA / Carmen Leccardi, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy /
Nira Yuval-Davis, University of East London, UK
Strand 3: Critiques and strategies of mediation, representation, and digital technologies
The conference raises the general question on what it means to imagine, to enact and to analyse “social change” from a feminist perspective.This conference-strand focuses on how media and the process of digitalisation contribute to the production and contestation of the spaces/relations/canons we inhabit individually and collectively. Especially the last year(s) of pandemic have made the use of digital media a constitutive part of the process of subjectivation and the construction of the public sphere, even more crucial.
This strand invites papers and panels from a wide range of (inter)disciplines, both empirical and theoretical contributions, on topics which include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Affordances and constraints of digital platforms
- Cyberfeminist legacies (hacklab, hacktivism)
- Alternative media industries, representations and networks
- Feminist networking, digital activism and collective action in pandemic time
- Transfeminist critiques to computational culture (big data, creative methodologies, ethics)
- Mediated articulation of the affective and intimate everyday life (dating app, family, friendship, alternative intimacies and radical kinships)
- The complexities of feminist communication and knowledge exchanges across academic and non academic spaces (e.g.: issues of accessibility, production, and dissemination)
- Community media
- Normative regime of (in)visibility and resistance (representation, self-representation, disidentifications)
- Critical takes on the popularised issue of fake news and post-truth
- Platforms/digital practices of care, networking, participation
- Memes as aesthetiques and language
Read the entire call here: https://11efrc.unimib.it/strand-3/
Deadline: December 5, 2021
→ abstracts to be sent to: efrc.strand3@gmail.com, info@atgender.eu