Junior professorship intercultural practice with a focus on digital cultures
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Junior professorship intercultural practice with a focus on digital cultures 

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The latest updates and daily information about the work of the junior professorship can be found on our Instagram channel @jp_interkulturelle_praxis! There you will find information about new scientific publications, special teaching experiences and other activities of the junior professor.

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Upcoming Events:

  • The IMISCOE Standing Committee on Methodological Approaches and Tools in Migration Research (Meth@Mig) and the Junior Professorship "Intercultural Praxis with a focus on Digital Culture” at Chemnitz University of Technology are pleased to announce the call for contributions for the 4th Annual Meth@Mig Workshop “Between Data and Dialogue: Focusing on Participants in Migration Research”. Keynote Speaker: Tuba Bircan. The workshop will be held on April 3-4, 2025 at the Chemnitz University of Technology in Germany. Researchers and scholars are encouraged to submit their contributions by December 8, 2024. The workshop aims to explore innovative methodological approaches and promote meaningful discussions centered on participant perspectives in migration research. For further details and submission information, please visit the workshop website: Meth@Mig Workshop. Contributions are welcomed, and the organizers look forward to a fruitful exchange of ideas in Chemnitz, the European Capital of Culture 2025.

  • The Junior professorship “Intercultural Praxis with a focus on Digital Culture” at Chemnitz University of Technology, is hosting the the Ibero-American Network of Imaginaries and Representations (RIIR) "Conversatorio 2024: Imaginarios de la Migración", focusing on the transformations in the imaginaries and representations of migration on November 29, 2024. Time: 17:00 (Germany), 10:00 a.m. (Mexico), 11:00 a.m. (Colombia). This event will take place in Spanish language and is organized in collaboration with the Faculty of Sociology at Universidad Santo Tomás, Colombia. Platform: Zoom, with live streaming on the RIIR YouTube channel. For more information visit the website.

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Activities and participation in events of the junior professorship in 2024:

  • 24.-26.09.2024: Junior professor Yolanda López was invited as a keynote speaker at the EC2U Alliance conference „Multilingualism, Cultural Diversity and Education for Sustainable Development in Higher Education“. Poitiers, France.
  • 23.-25.09.2024: Carmen Pereyra, Research Associate at the Juniorprofessorship, joined the 4th Vienna Anthropology Days (#VANDA) at the University of Vienna. Carmen Pereyra shared the ongoing research she and Yolanda López are conducting on Latin American migrant women living in Germany, discussing aspects of digital anthropology, participatory research, and exploring themes in digital migration studies and postdigitality. Vienna, Austria.
  • 18.09.2024: Participation in the Digital Anthropology Talk "Activism, Representation, and Digital Praxis" organized by the Red Latinoamericana de Antropología Digital, featuring an interdisciplinary and international group of panelists. The event explored social media practices from various perspectives, emphasizing the importance of a global-local lens in understanding the formation of digital communities, where activism and politics emerge as key elements to be interpreted within digital spaces. Yolanda López contributed to this discussion with her presentation on "Coloniality Practices in Postdigitality". The talk in Spanish language is available here.
  • 04.-06.09.2024: Yolanda López holds chair in Panel “Comparative Analysis of Logics, Practices, and Transfer Mechanisms in Migration Research” with colleagues from Germany, Italy, Mexico and Brazil. Conference “Bordering Society: Understanding and Reimagining Migration, Displacement and Diversity in an Age of Rapid Transformations”. University of Birmingham, England.
  • 18.-21.08.2024: “Deconstructing the Social Construction of Categories and their Intersectionality – Examples on (De)Coloniality and Diversity from Mexico, Italy and Germany“ with Juniorprofessors Barbara Gross and Yolanda López. Participation in ISCHE 45 - Annual Conference (De)Coloniality and Diversity in the Histories of Education. Natal, Brazil.
  • 08.-12.07.2024: Reconfiguración de Identidades Postdigitales: Explorando el fenómeno Whitexican en México [Reconfiguring post-digital identities: exploring the phenomenon of whitexicans in Mexico]. Yolanda López participates in the 10th International Congress for Anthropology AIBR „Inteligencia Antropológica“ [Anthropological Intelligence]. Madrid, Spain & online.
  • 02.-05.07.2024: “Postdigital Migration Studies: Methodological Challenges, Ethical Reflections, and the Significance of Social Imaginaries”. Yolanda López participates in the 21st IMISCOE Annual Conference. Lisbon, Portugal & online.
  • 25.-27.04.2024: Junior professor López participates in the Networking-Meeting of the IMISCOE-Standing Committee "Methodological Approaches and Tools in Migration Research (Meth@Mig)" as well as the Workshop "Strategien zur Teilnehmergewinnung und Stichprobenmethoden in der Migrationsforschung" [Strategies for participant recruitment and sampling methods in Migration Research] at GESIS – Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften in Mannheim, Germany.
  • 23.04.2024: Yolanda López speaks at the workshop "Erfolgreich Bewerben auf eine (Junior-)Professur in den Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften" [Successfully applying for a (junior) professorship in humanities and social sciences]. This workshop was held with Prof. Dr. Michael Hinz und Prof. Dr. Moritz Schumann. Chemnitz, Germany.
  • 26.-28.03.2024: Junior professor López coordinates Strand 5, "Critical Intercultural Competence and Practice", in collaboration with Prof. Dr. Agostino Portera (University of Verona) and Dr. Mattia Baiutti (Fondazione Intercultura ets) at the conference "DEIB+ in Education to Transform Society". Additionally, Yolanda López presents "Reimagining Critical Intercultural Competence: Decolonial Perspectives on Interculturality". The conference was organized by Junior professor Barbara Gross and the International Association for Intercultural Education. Chemnitz, Germany.
  • 04.-05.03.2024: Yolanda López participates in the Workshop "Towards Postmigrant Social Imaginaries" at FSU Jena. The Junior professor presented the topic "#Storytime! Imaginaries of Coloniality and Migration in Social Media". She also took part in the 33rd intercultural interdisciplinary colloquium for doctoral students, which was organized by the Hochschulverband für interkulturelle Studien e.V. (IKS) and the ReDICo project (Researching Digital Interculturality Co-operatively). Jena, Germany.

Past activities and participation in events of the junior professorship:

  • Winter semester 2023/24: As part of Yolanda López lecture “Intercultural Communication and Competence”, the last block was dedicated to a practice-oriented approach. Prof. Dr. Maja Störmer from the International University (IU) gave an online lecture with the title “Intercultural Training: A Critical Look at Practice” in December 2023. In January 2024, the students took part in a “Virtual Escape Room” led by Interculture.de. This was further accompanied by a session reflecting on this method in the field of intercultural learning.
  • 12.12.2023: First online round table as part of the Standing Committee “Methodological Approaches and Tools in Migration Research” (Meth@Mig) of IMISCOE. The participants exchanged views on their research and gave insights into their work. Participants were: Barbara Jancewicz (University of Warsaw), Boyang Yin (University of Sheffield), Laila Omar (Princeton University), Tatiana Eremenko (University of Salamanca) and Yolanda López (Chemnitz University of Technology).

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