(all times are Central European Time)
Tuesday, 27.06.2023
Session 1
16:00 - 17:30
Welcome and Keynote Presentation I
Welcome by the ReDICo Team
Gerard Delanty (University of Sussex)
"Understanding Socio-Cultural Change Today: Reflections on Cosmopolitanism and Europeanisation"
Fabio Mauri (DG MEME)
"Memes, the Common Language of the European Public Sphere?"
Thursday, 29.06.2023
Session 2
10:00 - 11:45
Representations, Narratives & Visibility
Maria Rieder (University of Limerick) and Marta Giralt (University of Limerick)
"The 'Tell Your Own Story' Project"
Mark Ryan (University of Limerick)
"Queer Cosmopolitanism in a Digital Space: Narratives of Progress and Exclusionary Practices"
Adam Brett (Lecturer in Education)
"Visibility Matters"
Session 3
15:00 - 16:45
Postmigration & Participation
Çiğdem Bozdağ (University of Bremen / University of Groningen) and Yasemin Karakaşoğlu (University of Bremen)
"Cosmopolitanism From Below and the Multilingual Use of Digital Media Among Young People in the Postmigrant Society"
Denise Holguín (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
"Critical Cosmopolitanism for Intercultural Language Education in the Context of Migration: A Multidimensional Understanding for Pedagogical Intervention and Data Analysis"
Sandro Accogli (South European Youth Forum)
"Immigration, Participation and the Post-Digital"
Friday, 30.06.2023
Session 4
10:00 - 11:45
Social Media & Populism
Luisa Conti (University of Jena) and Fergal Lenehan (University of Jena)
"Cosmopolitanism as a Conscious Transformational Digital Process? Counter-Speech and Digital Ethnography"
Alina Jugenheimer (Independent Scholar)
"Constructions of Threat to the People in Right-Wing Online Discourses"
TBA
Countering Online Hate Speech
Session 5
14:00 - 16:15
Platforms & Critical Discourse
Emilian Franco (LMU Munich)
"Contaminated and Cosmopolitan Imaginaries in Brazilian AI Research"
Fergal Lenehan (University of Jena) and Roman Lietz (University of Mainz)
"The Manifestation of Cyber-Utopian Cosmopolitanism or a Distinctly German Democratic Platform? The Mastodon Discourse in the Anglophone and German-language Media Following the Takeover of Twitter"
Simon Pistor (University of St. Gallen)
"Varieties of Cosmopolitanism - Cultural, Constitutional, Contestative - and Social"
Hervé Saint Louis (Université du Québec)
"Migration From Twitter: Black Mastodon’s Predicament"
Wednesday, 05.07.2023
Session 6
15:00 -16:30
Keynote Presentation II
Naika Foroutan (Deutsches Zentrum für Integrations- und Migrationsforschung Berlin)
"Migration today and tomorrow - Reflecting the Post- in Postmigrant Societies"
TBA
Postmigrant Society and (Online) Media
Thursday, 06.07.2023
Session 7
09:00 - 10:45
Solidarity & Social Media Narratives
Roman Lietz (University of Mainz) and Carmen Pereyra (University of Jena)
"Unlikely Fraternities Between Argentina and Bangladesh: A Postcolonial and Postdigital Football Tale"
Cecilia Rollano (UNED)
"Cosmopolitan Digital Identity Expression on Twitter"
Hong Van Nguyen (Perspektiven of Color)
"Narratives, Participation and Social Media"
Session 8
15:00 - 16:45
Competence & Education
Guillermo Echauri (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
"Cosmopolitanism Through the Digital Mediation of International Students in Barcelona"
Nick Ludwig (University of Jena)
"Learning to Feel at Home Anywhere: Digital Experiential Learning as a Tool to Facilitate Cosmopolitanism and how Learning it can be Investigated with Virtual Action Learning"
Milene Mendes de Oliveira (University of Potsdam)
"Interconnections Between the Concepts of Intercultural Competence, Digital Competence and Cosmopolitanism"
Friday, 07.07.2023
Session 9
10:00 - 11:45
Europeanness, Eurocentrism & Post-Colonialism
Andrea Barcaro (University of Lisbon)
"Nomadic Art – Decolonising the Human and the Posthuman"
Yolanda López García (Chemnitz University of Technology)
"Exploring Whitexicans' Narratives of Europeanness in the Postdigital Field of Action"
Carmen Pereyra (University of Jena)
" "Why doesn't Argentina have more Black Players?”: The Twitter Reaction to an Article Published on The Washington Post, Between Poscolonailism, Postmigratory Views and Racism Denial"
Session 10
14:00 - 16:15
Languages, Cultures & Global Citizens
Yarong Liu (Chemnitz University of Technology)
"E-Tandem Learning in English Language Teaching: How Learners Perceive the Use of Digital Tools for Developing Online Intercultural Citizenship"
Bernd Meyer (University of Mainz) and Roman Lietz (University of Mainz)
"The Cosmopolitan Promise of Translation Apps"
Alexa Robertson (Stockholm University)
"Cosmopolitanism and Communication Rights in a Postdigital World"
Britta Schneider (European University Viadrina) and May Rostom (Aix-Marseille University)
"Cosmopolitan Language Cultures and Overcoming Methodological Nationalism in Linguistics. Insights from Transnational Migrant Networks"
Closing Words