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.

Author: Sarah Melton

Sarah Melton is Head of Digital Scholarship at Boston College. Her group explores and documents new tools and supports teaching and research in a variety of areas that utilize broad methodologies in the digital humanities. She is interested in questions of digital infrastructure, the philosophical underpinnings of ”openness,” and the intersection of public history and digital humanities. She has worked with Open Access Button for the past several years. Sarah holds a PhD from Emory University’s Graduate Institute of the Liberal Arts.