ReDICo Conferences

A number of ReDICo conferences will take place during the project. The goals here are both strategic and academic, as the conferences seek to create sustainable national and international links, while also looking to advance perspectives on Digital Interculturality from a theoretical and empirical perspective.

Conference “ReDICo 2024 Encounters: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Digital Interculturality" (February & March, 2024)

Participation in the Encounters is free of charge.

Digital practices have been defined as assemblages of actions and digital technologies connected to social goals and social identities. Apart from being ‘digital’, these practices are also often intercultural, as the online worlds of video-streaming platforms, social media, and micro-blogging, to mention some concrete contexts, are replete with cultural diversities of many kinds. Yet, if our object of research is digital intercultural communication, can we expect the existing definitions of interculturality, originally conceived to describe situations of physical mobility and migration, to still hold true? Thus, the first aim of the ReDICo 2024 Encounters is to foster dialogue between the epistemologies of linguistics and intercultural communication that may benefit the study of digital interculturality. The second aim is to explore methodologies that can be adopted in empirical studies using digital intercultural data.

The ReDICo Encounters will bring together leading international researchers from intercultural communication and linguistic studies to introduce theoretical and/or empirical perspectives on digital intercultural practices and engage in dialogue surrounding possible points of theoretical and methodological synergy.

Overview of the Encounters:

Encounter 1: Feb. 16, from 2 to 4 pm (CET), online – ReDICo team View PowerPoint Presentation

Encounter 2: Feb. 23, from 2 to 4 pm (CET), online – Dominic Busch & Rodney Jones

Encounter 3: March 1, from 2 to 4 pm (CET), online – Zhu Hua & Jannis Androutsopoulos

Encounter 4: March 4 (evening) & March 5 (all day), Friedrich Schiller University Jena – Ben Rampton, IKS & ReDICo team

Encounter 5: March 7, from 4 to 6 pm (CET), online – Adam Brandt & Alexandra Georgakopoulou-Nunes

Encounter 6: March 15, from 2 to 4 pm (CET), online – Çiğdem Bozdağ & Daniel Nascimento Silva

Encounter 7: March 22, from 2 to 4 pm (CET), online – ReDICo team

ReDICo 2024 Encounters – Description

ReDICo 2024 Encounters – Program

ReDICo 2024 Encounters – Abstracts

PhD Workshop and Colloquium – Program

Register here for the Online Encounters

Register here for the PhD Workshop and Colloquium

Conference “Cosmopolitanism in a Postdigital, Postmigrant Europe, and Beyond” (online, June 26 – July 7, 2023)

The idea of cosmopolitanism remains multifaceted and fit for purpose. It may be seen, for example, as a philosophical concept, or viewed as a theoretical and empirical tool used to describe and
understand contemporary society, culture and interculturality. But cultural theory and empirical research have not remained stagnant, and a number of recent ideas have been proffered as further
theoretical and empirical tools. These include the concepts of postdigitality and postmigrancy. The “post” in these terms does not denote an end (of digitality or migration), but the transformation of a society indissolubly interwoven with digitality and migration. Cramer (2014:13, 17) sees the “post” in postdigital as denoting a “continuation” rather than a rupture, as indicative of the “messy state of media, art and design after their digitization”, eradicating the distinction between old and new media. Similarly, the term postmigration implies that the structures of society have been
fundamentally altered by migratory processes (Foroutan 2019); supposedly clear dichotomies of “migrant”/“native” or “assimilated”/“segregated” become dissolved, while established distributions
of resources and power structures have increasingly been called into question and become renegotiated. Indeed, the mere fact of continuously shaping a (post)migrant society and of being
immersed in super-diversity with cultural and linguistic implications (Blommaert/Rampton 2011) needs to be accepted (Foroutan 2019). Thus, the new theoretical and empirical postmigrant and
postdigital realities call for new perspectives on the concept of cosmopolitanism and adjoining concepts, such as Europeanism. These ideas, though very applicable to European societies and lifeworlds, are not limited to Europe but are found and may be investigated in a variety of contexts.

In our conference, we engaged with the undeniable fact that migration and digitalization are deeply intertwined with our daily reality and have greatly left their mark on society. This also, of course, changes our thoughts and perspectives on cosmopolitanism.

The online conference took place from June 26 to July 7, 2023.

Presentations

  • Gerard Delanty (University of Sussex)
    Understanding Socio-Cultural Change Today: Reflections on Cosmopolitanism and Europeanisation (watch on YouTube)
  • Fabio Mauri (DG MEME)
    Memes, the Common Language of the European Public Sphere? (watch on YouTube)
  • Mark Ryan (University of Limerick)
    Queer Cosmopolitanism in a Digital Space: Narratives of Progress and Exclusionary Practices (watch on YouTube)
  • Roman Lietz (University of Mainz)
    Educasts on Digital Cosmopolitanism (watch on YouTube)
  • Maria Rieder (University of Limerick) and Marta Giralt (University of Limerick)
    The ‘Tell your own Story’ Project – Using Media to Develop Cosmopolitan Mindsets in a Diverse and Changing Urban Space in Ireland (watch on YouTube)
  • 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 (watch on YouTube)
  • Çiğdem Bozdağ (University of Bremen / University of Groningen)
    Cosmopolitanism From Below and the Multilingual Use of Digital Media Among Young People in the Postmigrant Society (watch on YouTube)
  • Sandro Accogli (South Europe Youth Forum)
    Immigration, Participation and the Post-Digital (watch on YouTube)
  • Nicholas Potter (Amadeu Antonio Stiftung)
    Viral Hate and Digital Propaganda: Far-Right Populism Online (watch on YouTube)
  • Alina Jugenheimer (Independent Scholar)
    Constructions of Threat to the »Volk« in Right-Wing Online Discourses (watch on YouTube)
  • Luisa Conti (University of Jena) and Fergal Lenehan (University of Jena)
    Experiential Hermeneutics and Social Media: Facebook Comments and the German Newspaper Bild (watch on YouTube)
  • Simon Pistor (University of St. Gallen)
    Varieties of Cosmopolitanism – Cultural, Constitutional, Contestative – and Social (watch on YouTube)
  • Fergal Lenehan (University of Jena)
    Internet History, Platform History & Platformisation: A Methodological Discussion (watch on YouTube)
  • Hervé Saint Louis (Université du Québec)
    Migration From Twitter: Black Mastodon’s Predicament (watch on YouTube)
  • Emilian Franco (LMU Munich)
    Contaminated and Cosmopolitan Imaginaries in Brazilian AI Research (watch on YouTube)
  • Naika Foroutan (Deutsches Zentrum für Integrations- und Migrationsforschung Berlin)
    Migration Today and Tomorrow – Reflecting the „Post-“ in Postmigrant Societies (watch on YouTube)
  • Jutta Brennauer (BetterPost [Neue deutsche Medienmacher*innen])
    Media Visibility & Diversity in a Postmigrant Society (watch on YouTube)
  • Roman Lietz (University of Mainz) and Carmen Pereyra (University of Jena)
    Unlikely Fraternities Between Argentina and Bangladesh: A Postcolonial and Postdigital Football Tale (watch on YouTube)
  • Hong Van Nguyen (Perspektiven of Color)
    Narratives, Participation and Social Media (watch on YouTube)
  • Guillermo Echauri (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
    Cosmopolitanism Through the Digital Mediation of International Students in Barcelona (watch on YouTube)
  • Nick Ludwig (University of Jena)
    Learning to Feel at Home Anywhere: Digital Experiential Learning as a Tool to Facilitate Cosmopolitanism and How Learning can be Investigated with Virtual Action Learning (watch on YouTube)
  • Milene Mendes de Oliveira (University of Potsdam)
    Navigating Digital Interculturality on Zoom: Duelling Between Interactional Practices and Assumptions of Ideal Intercultural Interactions in Search of “Intercultural Competence” (watch on YouTube)
  • Andrea Barcaro (University of Lisbon)
    Nomadic Art – Decolonising the Human and the Posthuman (watch on YouTube)
  • Yolanda López García (Chemnitz University of Technology)
    Exploring Whitexicans’ Narratives of Europeanness in the Postdigital Field of Action (watch on YouTube)
  • Carmen Pereyra (University of Jena)
    “Why doesn’t Argentina have more Black Players?”: The Twitter Reaction to an Article Published in The Washington Post, Between Postcolonialism, Postmigratory Views and Racism Denial (watch on YouTube)
  • 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 (watch on YouTube)
  • Bernd Meyer (University of Mainz) and Roman Lietz (University of Mainz)
    The Cosmopolitan Promise of Translation Apps (watch on YouTube)
  • Alexa Robertson (Stockholm University)
    Cosmopolitanism and Communication Rights in a Postdigital World (watch on YouTube)

 

 

 

 

conference program

Conference “Lifewide Learning: Transformations and New Connections in Postdigital Societies” (Jena/online/hybrid, June 29 – July 1, 2022)

Digitalization has rapidly transformed the planet. Technological developments continuously open up a myriad of new possibilities in daily human experience. Indeed, the Internet has penetrated material reality to such an extent that it is now, often, impossible in many contexts to disentangle the material from the virtual. In this “postdigital” (Cramer 2014; Knox 2019) scenario, the digital and the material intertwine and the intersubjectivity of lifeworlds develop, thus, relatively freely in a hybrid space. The encounter with ‘newness’ becomes indeed potentially accessible at the touch of a button 24/7, and learning becomes a lifewide experience, covering a myriad of new digital and potentially global contexts, beyond the local. New connections with other people and their artifacts are continuously occurring. These new connections foster learning processes which lead to personal and cultural transformations; the ground upon which new connections develop.

The conference took place over three days:

29 June 2022: online
30 June 2022: hybrid (online & in presence at the ‘Dornburger Castles’, near Jena, Germany)
1 July 2022: in presence, at the ‘Dornburger Castles’, near Jena, Germany.

Presentations

Wednesday, 29 June 2022

Thursday, 30 June 2022

Friday, 01 July 2022

Drawings: Akemi Paz, CC-BY-NC

 

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Introductory Symposium on "Interkulturalität in (post-)digitalen Kontexten“ (Jena/online September 20, 2021)

In this symposium on September, 20, 2021, we introduced our ReDICo project, and reflected upon the state of the art within Intercultural Communications scholarship, Internet Studies and how they may be combined.

Interkulturelle Sommerakademie, Online, 20. September 2021

ReDICo-Symposium „Interkulturalität in (post-)digitalen Kontexten“

9:30 Begrüßung und Vorstellung der wissenschaftlichen und strategischen Zielen des BMBF- Forschungsverbundes ReDICo (Researching Digital Interculturality Co-operatively) (Watch presentation on YouTube)

9:45 Inwieweit kann Post-Digitalität als „lebensweltliche Hybridität“ verstanden werden? Workshop – Moderation: Dr. Luisa Conti, PD Dr. Fergal Lenehan, Dr. Roman Lietz

11:15 Pause

11:30 Interkulturelle Studien und Internet Studien – Nebeneinander oder Miteinander? Vortrag + Diskussion – PD Dr. Fergal Lenehan & Dr. Roman Lietz (Watch presentation on YouTube or download paper)

12:15 Mittagspause

13:15 Scimification. Affektive Einstiege in ganzheitliche virtuelle Lernprozesse Vortrag + Diskussion – Prof. Dr. Jürgen Bolten (Watch presentation on YouTube or download paper Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3)

14:00 Pause

14:15 Internationale virtuelle Zusammenarbeit. Wie entsteht ein echtes Miteinander? Vortrag + Diskussion – Dr. Luisa Conti, Dr. Milene Mendes de Oliveira & Barbara Nietzel, M.A. (Watch presentation on YouTube or download paper)

15:00 Pause 15:15 Digitale Tools zur Datenerhebung und Auswertung in den Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften Workshop – Dr. Elisa Hofmann (Watch presentation on YouTube or download paper)

16:45 Pause 17:00 „Online-Seminare interaktiv gestalten“ Interaktiver Vortrag – Sabine Vana-Ströhla und Tommy Schmidt

18:30 Informeller Austausch zum Tagesabschluss

Panel on Intercultural Online Communication at GAL Conference (Würzburg/online September 15-17, 2021)

ReDICo organised a panel about Digital Intercultural Communication for the Section of Intercultural Communication and Multilingual Discourse at the annual GAL (Gesellschaft für Angewandte Linguistik) conference in Würzburg (15-17 September 2021). You can download the full program here.

You will find all presentations held by ReDICo members at the Digital Intercultural Communication panel here:

GAL Sektionentagung 2021, Online, 15. September 2021

ReDICo-Symposium „Digitale Interkulturelle Kommunikation in Wirtschaft und Kollaboration“ und “Digitale Interkulturelle Kommunikation in Lehre und Lernen”

15:05 Business English as a lingua franca in intercultural simulation games via Zoom: a case study Vortrag + Diskussion: Dr. Milene Mendes de Oliveira, Universität Potsdam (Download paper)

17:10 Language and power: reflexions around dynamics of exclusion and self-exclusion in online role-playing games Vortrag + Diskussion: Dr. Luisa Conti, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena & Dr. Milene Mendes de Oliveira, Universität Potsdam (Download paper)

GAL Sektionentagung 2021, Online, 16. September 2021

ReDICo-Symposium „Digitale Interkulturelle Kommunikation als Verbindung von Linguistik und Kulturstudien“

09:00 Diskursive Herstellung von Identität und Sozialer Kohäsion im virtuellen Raum Vortrag + Diskussion: Dr. Roman Lietz, Universität Mainz (Download paper)

09:30 Heimat wird Netzwerk. Reflexionen über Diaspora-Gemeinschaften im postdigitalen Zeitalter Vortrag + Diskussion: Dr. Luisa Conti, Universität Jena (Download paper)

10:00 Intercultural Communications and Internet Studies: A Parallel Academic History, and the Need to Unite? Vortrag + Diskussion: Dr. Fergal Lenehan, Universität Jena (Download paper)

16:00 WeltCafé: Zustand und Zukunft der Digitalen Interkulturellen Kommunikation Moderatoren: Dr. Milene Mendes de Oliveira, Universität Potsdam & Dr. Roman Lietz, Universität Mainz