Dear all, You are warmly invited to attend our hybrid workshop on Digital activism across North-South divides. This workshop focuses on critical issues in digital activism, traversing North-South boundaries to explore a range of themes and geopolitical contexts: the relation between embodied and digital forms of activism; digital archives as activist resources; repertoires of protest, and the mediation of affective and emotional solidarities. Across contributions, the workshop will attempt to envision a digital politics of location that addresses inequalities of race, class, gender and geography. Individual presentations will explore: the archival practices of digital feminist activism in Iran; digital practices of witnessing and anti-securitisation in the Mediterranean; affect and digital territoriality during the #MahsaAmini protests in Iran; digital civic initiatives and civil society in Belarus; and shifting definitions of activism - blurring the boundaries between civic action and lifestyle choices. Organisers: Dr Sara Tafakori and Dr Mitra Shamsi Date and time: Tuesday, 27 June 2023, 11 am-2 pm CET Location: CAIS, Bochum, and Webex Themes and speakers: (Un)making feminist subjects: affect, digitality and embodiment during the #Mahsa_Amini protests in Iran. Dr Sara Tafakori, Lecturer, University of Leeds To Make Women’s Issues Visible: Practising Digital Feminist Activism in Iran Dr Mitra Shamsi, CAIS fellow Agitator, commentator, educator, mental health counselor: Instagram use for social change and the re-construction of activism Dr Delia Dumitrica, Associate Professor, Erasmus University Rotterdam
From Technology Affordances at the High Sea to Digital Activism: The Alarm Phone’s Case
Dr Lucien Vilhalva de Campos, Researcher and teaching assistant at the Central European University, Vienna, former CAIS Fellow Telegram Revolution: Conceptual and Technical Innovations of the 2020 Belarusian Protest* Dr Vasil Navumau, Institute of Social Movements, Ruhr-University Bochum, former CAIS Fellow If you want to attend, please register at kolleg@cais-research.de mailto:kolleg@cais-research.de. Best wishes, Esther