Date
April 11, 2018

Location

Conference Panels: Heyman Center Common Room
Keynote Address: Jerome Green Annex


Time
10:30 am – 6:30 pm

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10.30-12.00, Panel I: 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”

Break 12.00-13.00

13.00-14.30, Panel II: 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”

14.30-15.00: Coffee Break

15.00-16.30, Panel III: 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”

17.00-18.30: Closing Keynote

Jerome Green Annex

Arjun Appadurai (New York University): “Narrative Panic and the Edges of Europe”

Chair: Sandra Ponzanesi

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