THURSDAY, OCTOBER 21

4–5pm CEST  |  10–11am EDT  |  7–8am PDT  |  midnight–1am AEST

South of the Test Tube I

Approaches to Violence, Viruses, and Digital Culture

in Latin American Science Fiction Cinema

Chair: Alfredo Suppia (University of Campinas)

Jorge Prudencio Lozano Botache (Universidad del Quindío)
Digital Cinema for Self-Representation and Decolonization

Anna Marta Marini (Instituto Franklin, Universidad de Alcalá)
Virtual Reality, Cyborg Migrants, and Cross-Border Dehumanization on the US-Mexico Boundary

Alfredo Suppia (University of Campinas)
Digystopias in Brazilian Cinema: Authoritarianism Beyond Zeroes and Ones

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Platform Capitalism and Digital Practices of Commemoration

 

Chair: Tomasz Łysak (University of Warsaw)

Tomasz Łysak (University of Warsaw)
Platform Capitalism and Digital Practices of Commemoration

Ilya Sulzhickiy (University of Greifswald | European Humanities University)
TripAdvisor Reviews of Holocaust Museums in Belarus and Poland: A Data-Driven Cultural Sociology Approach

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5.15–6.15pm CEST  |  11.15am–12.15 EDT  |  8.15–9.15am PDT  |  1.15–2.15am AEST

South of the Test Tube II

Approaches to Violence, Viruses, and Digital Culture

in Latin American Science Fiction Cinema

Chair: Alfredo Suppia (University of Campinas)

Ariela Parisi (Rutgers University)
Decolonizing Cinema through the Intersection between Science Fiction and Disability: The Case of Branca sai, Preto fica by Adirley Queirós

Igor Carastan Noboa
The Similars and Mexican History in The Twilight Zone

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Transnational Digitalities

 

Chair: Patrick Brock (University of Oslo)

Lea Zengraf & Karina Sávio (Freie Universität Berlin)
The Brazilian Backlash: Social Movements, Digital and Mass Media, and the Public Sphere

Agnieszka Urbanczyk (Jagiellonian University)
The Americanization of Semi-Peripheral Fandoms: The Case of Fandom in Poland

Zafiris Nikitas (Aristotle Univeristy of Thessaloniki)
Digital Theater in America: Tendencies and Evolutions

Jaime Harrison (Queen's University Belfast)
"Believe in the net, god is in the cables": Depictions of Japanese and American Digital Cultures in Suda51's "Kill the Past" Series

ONLY ACCESSIBLE TO REGISTERED PARTICIPANTS--PLEASE USE THE NAVIGATION MENU (PROGRAM)

6.30–7.30pm CEST  |  12.30–1.30pm EDT  |  9.30–10.30am PDT  |  2.30–3.30am AEST

What Happens ...

... When Social Media and Self-Publishing Platforms

Replace Traditional Models of Knowledge Production?

 

Chair: Patrick Brock (University of Oslo)

Patrick Brock (University of Oslo)
Digital Culture in Brazilian SF Fandom: The Case of Sertãopunk

Gabriele Gomes Diniz (Federal University of Ceará)
Creating a Movement from Scratch: A Testimony about the Birth and Growth of Sertãopunk

Vítor Castelões Gama (University of Brasiília)
Amazofuturism: A Consensus within the Brazilian Science Fiction Community?

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Digital Games and Theater in America

Theatricalizing Games, Gamifying Theater,

Playing into Social Change

Chairs: Aikaterini Delikonstantinidou

(National and Kapodistrian University of Athens) &

Dimitra Nikolaidou

(Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)

Aikaterini Delikonstantinidou (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)
Theater and/as Digital Game(s)

Dimitra Nikolaidou (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)
Digital Games as Theater

Dan Barnard (London South Bank University)
The Sociocultural Implications of the Theater-Game Alliance

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8–8.45pm CEST  |  2–2.45pm EDT

11–11.45am PDT  |  4–4.45am AEST

Featured Speaker

Ignacio Siles (University of Costa Rica)

Datafication as Culture:

Living with Algorithms

in Central America

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