Nationalism, Ethnicity and Cultural Diversity in the Digital Age - Programme

Thursday 14 March 2019

1.15pm-2.00pm – Registration (with coffee & tea)

2.00pm-2.15pm – Opening remarks: Guzel Yusupova & Andy Byford, Durham University

2.15pm-3.30pm – Keynote Lecture, Peter Rutland, Wesleyan University – Visualising the Nation in the Digital Age

3.30pm-4.00pm – Coffee break

4.00pm-5.30pm – 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

7.00pm – Dinner (Hatfield College)

Friday 15 March 2019

9.30am-11.00am – 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

11.00am-11.30am – Coffee break

11.30am-1.00pm – 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

1.00pm-2.00pm – Lunch

2.00pm-3.30pm – 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

3.30pm-4.00pm – Tea break

4.00pm-5.30pm – 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

5.45pm-6.45pm – Round table: Summing up (collective discussion)

6.45pm – Closing remarks

7.30pm – Dinner (Nadon Thai)

For more information contact: guzel.yusupova@durham.ac.uk