Register for the ReDICo Online-Conference “Digital Pasts and Futures: Internet Histories, Digital Interculturality and Reimagining Digitality“ 23-24 June 2025

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23 June

Central European Time
9.00 – 11.30 am	Pasts 1 Moderation: Fergal Lenehan
9.00 - 9.15 am	Introduction
9.15 – 10.15 am	Keynote Speech 1: Helle Strandgaard Jensen, University of Aarhus "Inter-linked Imaginaries and the Early Web for Kids"
10.15 - 10.30 am	Break
10.30 - 11.30 am	Martin Munke, Saxon State and University Library Dresden/Dresden University of Technology “The Paradox of Place, or: Digital Boundaries in a Borderless World? Regional History Web Portals as Media of Transregionality and Transculturality” Anna Nacher, Jagiellonian University, Kraków “Digital Infrastructures at the End of the World: What has Melted into the Air, Needs to be Re-Captured”
1.30 – 4.00 pm	Between Pasts and Futures 1 Moderation: Luisa Conti
1.30 - 2.30 pm	Emilian Franco, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich “AI and Interculturality: The Brazilian Discourse on AI Development” Freyja van den Boom, University of Bournemouth “Reimagining Digitality Through Causal Layered Tetrad Analysis (CLTA): A Critical Framework for AI Governance”
2.30 – 3.00 pm	Break
3.00 - 4.00 pm	Ekaterina Senina, Hochschule Hamm-Lippstadt “The Yoshi-P Effect: Parasocial Relationships and In-Game Culture in Final Fantasy XIV” Pia Diergarten, Friedrich Schiller University of Jena “Experiencing Diversity Online – Potentials for Transformative Learning in Postdigital Spheres”
5.30 – 8.00 pm	Futures 1 Moderation: Fergal Lenehan
5.30 - 6.30 pm	Tomás Cajueiro, Independent Scholar “Decolonizing Digital Geographies: Journalism and the Creation of possible Imaginaries” Yolanda López García, Technical University of Chemnitz “Content Creators and the Reconfiguration of Digital Interculturality”
6.30 - 7.00 pm	Break
7.00 - 8.00 pm	Keynote Speech 2: Ethan Zuckerman, University of Massachusetts, Amherst "The Quotidian Internet: What We Can Learn from the Ordinary Archive that is YouTube and TikTok?"

24 June

Central European Time
9.00 – 11.15 am	Pasts 2 Moderation: Fergal Lenehan
9.00 – 9.15 am	Introduction
9.15 – 10.15 am	Keynote Speech 3: Valérie Schafer, University of Luxembourg "Revisiting Internet Histories through Interculturality"
10.15 - 10.45 am	Break
10.45 - 11.15 am	Nathalie Fridzema, University of Groningen and Anya Shchetvina, Humboldt University Berlin “Nostalgia, DIY, and Internet Critique: The Emergence of the ‘Vernacular Web’ as an Imaginary of Alternative Digital Futures”
1.30 – 4.00 pm	Between Pasts and Futures 2 Moderation: Luisa Conti
1.30 - 2.30 pm	Julia Polyck-O'Neill, Memorial University of Newfoundland “Epistemic Uncertainty: ‘Junk Data,’ Digital Futures, and the Intercultural Limits of Big Data Management in the Artist Archive” Tess McNulty, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign “The Uplifting Anecdote: On the Long Pre-History of a Major Viral Genre”
2.30 - 3.00 pm	Break
3.00 - 4.00 pm	Martina Di Tullio, University of Buenos Aires “Rooting the Internet: A Local History of Communication Practices in Rural-Indigenous Jujuy Puna (Argentina)” Yehuda Silverman, Northwestern University – Civic Education Project “A Transformative Autoethnographic Analysis of Acquaint.org’s Platform”
5.30 – 8.15 pm	Futures 2 Moderation: Fergal Lenehan
5.30 - 6.30 pm	Mareike Schütt, Friedrich Schiller University of Jena “The Solarpunk movement as a transcultural force reimagining global connectivity, digital inclusivity, and ecological sustainability” Andrew Bailey, Concordia University “Archiving the Self: MaddyMakesGames.com and the Digital Memory of Indie Game Development”
6.30 - 7.00 pm	Break
7.00 - 8.00 pm	Keynote Speech 4: Ramesh Srinivasan, University of California, Los Angeles "Beyond Fragmentation - A Path for Technology to Support our Collective Futures"
8.00 - 8.15 pm	Conclusion