CFP: Digital Diasporas: Interdisciplinary Perspectives

Organizers of the Digital Diasporas conference have released a call for proposals for the event, scheduled for June 6–7, 2019 at the School of Advanced Study, University of London. Areas of interest include:

  • Social media and migration focused research;
  • Multilingualism and digitally mediated communications;
  • Histories of the internet and web archives research;
  • Ethnographies of the internet and uses of digital technologies (including research combining offline-online methods);
  • Digital media, cultural and visual studies;
  • Digital and diasporic cultural memory;
  • Digitally mapping and visualising migrations and diasporic networks, with attention to ethical and political concerns.

Abstracts for 20-minute presentations and 5–7 minute lightning talks are due December 1, 2018.

dh+lib Review

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