Thinking Network Politics Conference Schedule

Thinking Network Politics: Methods, Epistemology, Process - Conference Programme

 

Pre-Conference Seminar

 

17.00-18.15, Wednesday 24 March, Room 251, Helmore Building, Anglia Ruskin University, East Rd :

(Department of English Communication Film and Media, Research Seminar - All Welcome)

Dr Joss Hands - Constructing the Common: The Politics of Co-operation in Digital Activism

 

Conference Programme

 

Day 1 - Thursday 25 March 2010

 

9.30 onwards:

Registration - St George House reception.

 

10.15 Welcome and Introductions: Board Room (2nd Floor)

Dr Joss Hands and Dr Jussi Parikka: What is Network Politics?

 

10.30 - 11.20 Keynote: Board Room, chair Professor Greg Elmer

Professor Sean Cubitt: The Light through the Cloud: Questions of Network Distribution

 

11.20 Tea and Coffee Break

 

11.45 - 13.00 Panels, Session 1

 

Panel 1 - Boardroom (2nd floor), chair: Ganaele Langlois:

Adnan Hadzi: Why Openness Matters: the Deptford.TV project

Phoebe Moore: Work in Crisis, or the Revenge of the General Intellect?

Nathaniel Tkacz: The Politics of Forking Paths

 

Panel 2 - Training Room (3rd floor), chair: Olga Goriunova 

Kristoffer Gansing: Transversal Media Practices

Shintaro Miyazaki: Sonic Archaeology of Networks

Udi Edelman: Lexicon as a Network – Creating Knowledge Together

 

13.00 - 14.30 Lunch

Buffet lunch available in Vice-Chancellor's Office, next door to the board room.

 

14.30 - 15.45 Panels, Session 2

 

Panel 3 - Boardroom, chair: Jussi Parikka

Seb Franklin:Ontology, Obfuscation, Clouds

Ben Roberts: Network Politics and Individuation

Tony D. Sampson: Viral Love: In Between Dictatorship & Spontaneity

 

 

Panel 4 - Training Room, Chair Joss Hands

Tsila Hassine: New Technologies, Old Agendas

Eva Giraud - Re-Evaluating Haraway's Politics of Articulation: Animal Rights, Activist Networks and Non-Human Actors

Ben Little: Youth, Exceptionalism and Networks.

 

15.45 - Tea and Coffee Break

 

16.10 - 17.00 Keynote: Boardroom, chair Joss Hands

Professor Greg Elmer: Thinking out of the Box: Toward a Progressive Politics of Live Research

 

17.00 - 17.30 Concluding Discussion and Summary Remarks

 

From 18.00 Onwards, Drinks:

The Eagle, 8 Benet St, Cambridge (Self-Funded)

 

19.30 Meal:

D'arry's Cook house and Wine Shop, 2-4 Kings' Street, Cambridge. (Self- Funded)

 

Day 2 - Friday 26 March 2010

 

10.00 Arrive

 

10.15-11.30 Panels, Session 3

 

Panel 5 - Boardroom, chair Jussi Parikka

Olga Goriunova: New Media Idiocy

Ganaele Langlois: Tracking Networks: Notes on Developing a Semio- Technological Approach

 

 

Panel 6 - Training Room, chair Joss Hands

Veronica Barassi: Networks, Technologies and Political Action: An Ethnographic Critique of the Network Approach

Zoetanya Sujon: The Tiered Case Study: A Methodology for Messy Media

Yenn Lee:Korean Candlelight Protests 2008: The Curious Birth of a Consumer Activist Network in the Web 2.0 Era

 

11.30 - 11.45 Tea and Coffee Break

 

11.45 - 13.00

Round table with break out groups and plenary session.

 

13.00- 13.15

Final Concluding Remarks -- Dr Joss Hands and Dr Jussi Parikka

 

Lunch opportunities close-by for those wishing to continue informal discussions (self-funded)


 

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