Dr. Biz Nijdam has organized the upcoming workshop "The New Media Aesthetics of Migration Virtual Workshop: Social Media and Digita l Technologies in Representing Refugee Experience\," hosted by the UBC Cent re for Migration Studies. This workshop will take place from April 13-14\, featuring two keynote speakers. Registration details for the keynotes are p rovided below.
"How does the subaltern speak? A critical huma nist response for the times of migrant hypermediation"
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ssor Myria Georgiou (London School of Economics and Political Science)
Tuesday\, April 13\, 2021
9:00 - 10:00 am PT<
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"Face and the ethics of the refugee selfie"
Professor Lilie Chouliaraki (London School of Economics and Pol itical Science)
Wednesday\, April 14\, 2021
9:00 am PT
RSV P here: https://migration.ubc.ca/ events/new-media-aesthetics-migration-workshop-keynote-prof-lilie-chouliara ki-lse
The New Media Aesthetics of Migration Virtua l Workshop: Social Media and Digital Technologies in Representing Refugee E xperience
Workshop description: Global forc ed migration has become one of the most complex issues of the new millenniu m. Since 2011\, in particular\, and the start of Syrian civil war\, over 5. 6 million people have fled the country\, with millions more displaced insid e Syria itself. Today 79.5 million people have been forcibly displaced worl dwide. Media portrayals of migration have likewise proliferated. However\, the visual regime of refugee experience is fraught. With mediated represent ations of gender\, ethnicity\, and migration playing an important role in t he way the public understands these categories\, it is more urgent than eve r to critically examine the mediation of refugee experience. Furthermore\, new forums for and strategies of representation require attention to help r ecalibrate narratives of migrant experience.
In this context\, author s\, artists\, and humanitarian and activist organizations have turned to di gital and new media to communicate the journey of millions of individuals f leeing war-torn regions of the Middle East\, Africa\, and Asia. In turn\, t he media texts they are producing are developing a new set of visual\, tech nical\, and narrative strategies to represent refugee experience. Notably\, many of these representational modes draw upon the digital tools and digit al infrastructure of forced migration\, namely the smartphone and digital a nd social media. They are thereby cultivating a new aesthetics of forced mi gration that mobilizes the scopic regimes and visual\, technical\, and narr ative modalities of new media.
This workshop seeks to examine this em erging trend in representing and narrating global forced migration from a v ariety of interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary perspectives. By examinin g smartphone technologies\, and new\, digital and social media in represent ations of refugee experience\, participants in this workshop will engage di verse research to discuss the affordances of new media in intervening in di scourses on forced migration.
The ultimate goal for this workshop is to lay the theoretical and logistical groundwork for a SSHRC Partnership De velopment Grant application on the role of new media in the facilitation an d representation of contemporary forced migration."
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