At the beginning of April, Tori attended part of the 2013 Joint Annual Meeting of the British Forum for Ethnomusicology and ICTM-Ireland at Queen’s University Belfast, which focused on the theme ‘Ethnomusicology in the Digital Age‘. As the conference website put it, ‘Increasingly, digital technologies are mediating people’s engagement with music, posing new challenges to … Continue reading
Last month Thea gave a paper at the Recasting Commodity and Spectacle in the Indigenous Americas symposium which was organised by Charlotte Gleghorn (Royal Holloway, University of London) as part of the Indigeneity in the Contemporary World: Performance, Politics, Belonging research project, in partnership with the Institute for the Study of the Americas. Held at the Senate … Continue reading
Towards the end of last month, Claire gave a talk at the Open Seminar Series run by the Centre of Latin American Studies at the University of Cambridge. Held on Monday 21 May, Claire’s talk was entitled Mapping the Americas Online: Latin(o) American net.art and the Aesthetic Production of Space and focused on the ways in which … Continue reading
Tori’s paper proposal, ‘Local content and ecologies of locality: Theoretical and empirical contributions from research into blogging in a Brazilian favela’, has recently been accepted for Internet Research 13.0: Technologies, the annual conference of the Association of Internet Researchers, or AoIR. This year the event will take place in October at MediaCity:UK/University of Salford in … Continue reading
Earlier this month, Claire attended the annual conference of the Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland (AHGBI) at the University of Stirling. Whilst there was no panel on Latin American digital media specifically (unlike the panel organized by Latamcyber in 2008), there was a broader panel on Digital Hispanism, organized by Kirsty Hooper, which provided … Continue reading