[EN] С 12 по 14 июня пройдет конференция «iRhetoric в России: самопредставление через мобильные технологии»

iRhetoric in Russian:
Performing the Self through Mobile Technology
University of Passau, Germany, 12-14 June 2014

Conference Programme

12 June 2014

6:00 pm
Keynote: Selfies, Cities, and Patterns: What We Are Learning by Analysing Millions of Social Media Photos
Lev Manovich (New York)

13 June 2014

9:00 am
Opening Words
Burkhard Freitag (President of the University of Passau)

9:15 am
Organizational Introduction
Dirk Uffelmann, Gernot Howanitz

9:30 am
iRhetoric in Russian: A Conceptual Introduction
Dirk Uffelmann (Passau)

Section I: Communicating Identities (Chair: Ellen Rutten)

10:00 am
Questioning the Binary of On-line and Offline Communication: The ‘Prosaization’ of ICT
Elena Trubina (Ekaterinburg)

10:20 am
Virtual Self and Digital Social Order: Performing Class in Runet Communication
Vera Zvereva (Edinburgh)

10:40 am
Identity as Informed by Discourse, Performed Through Genre and Manifest in Mode: A Multimodal Analysis of Russian Online Identities
Natasha Rulyova (Birmingham)

11:00 am Discussion

Section IIa: The Virtual Self and Society (Chair: Michael Gorham)

12:00 pm
Performing the Russian Poet in Digital Genres
Marijeta Bozovic (Yale)

12:20 pm
Statistics of Memory and Protest: The iRhetoric of Political Mobilization and Cultural Despair
Alexander Etkind (Florence)

12:40 pm Discussion

Section IIb: The Virtual Self and Society (Chair: Ulrich Schmid)

3:00 pm
Performing Citizenship through Mobile Technology
Michael Gorham (Gainesville)

3:20 pm Wartime Selfies: Genres, Engagements, Affects
Adi Kuntsman (Manchester)

3:40 pm Discussion

4:30 pm
Roundtable Day 1 (Chair: Dirk Uffelmann)

14 June 2014

Section III: Online Performances between Fact and Fiction (Chair: Alexander Etkind)

9:30 am
iRhetoric and the True Self: Sincerity Discourse and New Media
Ellen Rutten (Amsterdam)

9:50 am
Visual Rhetoric and Self-Perception in Public Protest and Online Communication
Henrike Schmidt (Berlin)

10:10 am
“Life Tweeting”: Linor Goralik Performing the Multiple Self
Gernot Howanitz (Passau)

10:30 am Discussion

Section IV: Networked ‘Extensions of Man’ (Chair: Gernot Howanitz)

11:30 am
The Imperfect Communication: On the Use of Mobile Technology as an Educational Tool
Gasan Gusejnov (Moscow)

11:50 am
Transmedia projects in Contemporary Russia: Participatory Culture in the Situation of ‘Internet vs. TV divide’
Ekaterina Lapina-Kratasyuk (Moscow)

12:10 pm The Self, History and Society in Russian Video Games
Ulrich Schmid (St Gallen)

12:30 pm Discussion

2:00 pm
Roundtable Day 2 (Chair: Marijeta Bozovic)

2:30 pm
Closing Words
Dirk Uffelmann, Gernot Howanitz

For more information please visit http://www.phil.uni-passau.de/slavische-literaturen-und-kulturen/konferenzen/irhetoric-in-russian.html or contact [email protected] and [email protected]