Nationalism, Ethnicity and Cultural Diversity in the Digital Age - Programme
Thursday 14 March 2019
13.15-14.00 – Registration (with coffee & tea)
14.00-14.15 – Opening remarks: Guzel Yusupova & Andy Byford, Durham University
14.15-15.30 – Keynote Lecture
Peter Rutland, Wesleyan University – Visualising the Nation in the Digital Age
15.30-16.00 – Coffee break
16.00-17.30 – Panel 1: Digital Media in the Service of the State
Stephen Hutchings, University of Manchester
Reframing Russia for the Global Mediasphere: The Spy who Came Back from the Snow
Samuel Greene, King's College London & Graeme B. Robertson, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
State-Mobilized Contention: The Construction of 'Novorossiya'
Discussant: Andy Byford, Durham University
19. 00 – Dinner (Hatfield College)
Friday 15 March 2019
09.30-11.00 – Panel 2: The Digital and the National: Media Studies Perspectives
Sabina Mihelj, Loughborough University
Platform Nations: National Imagination in a Platform Society
Michael Skey, Loughborough University
'Raise Your Hashflags': Rethinking the Relationship between Media and Nation in the Digital Age
Discussant: Alfred Moore, University of York
11.00-11.30 – Coffee break
11.30-13.00 – Panel 3: Ethnic Minorities Enacted Online
Guzel Yusupova, Durham University
Digital Nationalism in an Illiberal State: A Micro-level Perspective
Leila Wilmers, Loughborough University & Dmitry Chernobrov, University of Sheffield
Digital Media in Diasporic Relations with the Homeland among Young Armenians
Discussant: Konstantin Zamyatin, Durham University
13.00-14.00 – Lunch
14.00-15.30 – Panel 4: Diasporic Identities and Online Representations
Aya Yadlin-Segal, Hadassah Academic College
From Guilt to Acceptance: Lived Ethnicities and Online Media
Ivan Kozachenko, University of Cambridge
Fighting for the Homeland from Afar: Social Media, Languages and the ‘Self’ in Ukrainian Diasporas since 2014
Discussant: Elizabeth Mavroudi, Loughborough University
15.30-16.00 – Tea break
16.00-17.30 – Panel 5: Social Media and Everyday Nationalism
J. Paul Goode, University of Bath
Can Online Nationalism Pass the Turing Test?
Tamara Trošt, University of Ljubljana
Debating the Nation Online: Everyday Nationalism in User-Generated Content on Social Media
Discussant: Ellie Knott, London School of Economics
17.45-18.45 – Round table: Summing up (collective discussion)
18.45 – Closing remarks
19. 30 – Dinner (Nadon Thai)
For more information contact: guzel.yusupova@durham.ac.uk
