Pasts 1
Moderation: Fergal Lenehan

9.00 - 9.15 am

Introduction

9.15 – 10.15 am

Keynote Speech 1:? Helle Strandgaard Jensen, University of Aarhus
"Inter-linked Imaginaries and the Early Web for Kids"

10.15 - 10.30 am

Break

10.30 - 11.30 am

Martin Munke, Saxon State and University Library Dresden/Dresden University of Technology
“The Paradox of Place, or: Digital Boundaries in a Borderless World? Regional History Web Portals as Media of Transregionality and Transculturality”

Anna Nacher, Jagiellonian University, Kraków
“Digital Infrastructures at the End of the World: What has Melted into the Air, Needs to be Re-Captured”

1.30 – 4.00 pm

Between Pasts and Futures 1
Moderation: Luisa Conti

1.30 - 2.30 pm

Emilian Franco, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
“AI and Interculturality: The Brazilian Discourse on AI Development”

Freyja van den Boom, University of Bournemouth
“Reimagining Digitality Through Causal Layered Tetrad Analysis (CLTA): A Critical Framework for AI Governance”

2.30 – 3.00 pm

Break

3.00 - 4.00 pm

Ekaterina Senina, Hochschule Hamm-Lippstadt
“The Yoshi-P Effect: Parasocial Relationships and In-Game Culture in Final Fantasy XIV”

Pia Diergarten, Friedrich Schiller University of Jena
“Experiencing Diversity Online – Potentials for Transformative Learning in Postdigital Spheres”

5.30 – 8.00 pm

Futures 1
Moderation: Fergal Lenehan

5.30 - 6.30 pm

Tomás Cajueiro, Independent Scholar
“Decolonizing Digital Geographies: Journalism and the Creation of possible Imaginaries”

Yolanda López García, Technical University of Chemnitz
“Content Creators and the Reconfiguration of Digital Interculturality”

6.30 - 7.00 pm

Break

7.00 - 8.00 pm

Keynote Speech 2: Ethan Zuckerman, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
"The Quotidian Internet: What We Can Learn from the Ordinary Archive that is YouTube and TikTok?"

Pasts 2
Moderation: Fergal Lenehan

9.00 – 9.15 am

Introduction

9.15 – 10.15 am

Keynote Speech 3:? Valérie Schafer, University of Luxembourg
"Revisiting Internet Histories through Interculturality"

10.15 - 10.45 am

Break

10.45 - 11.15 am

Nathalie Fridzema, University of Groningen and Anya Shchetvina, Humboldt University Berlin
“Nostalgia, DIY, and Internet Critique: The Emergence of the ‘Vernacular Web’ as an Imaginary of Alternative Digital Futures”

1.30 –? 4.00 pm

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Moderation: Luisa Conti

1.30 - 2.30 pm

Julia Polyck-O'Neill, Memorial University of Newfoundland
“Epistemic Uncertainty: ‘Junk Data,’ Digital Futures, and the Intercultural Limits of Big Data Management in the Artist Archive”

Tess McNulty, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign?
“The Uplifting Anecdote: On the Long Pre-History of a Major Viral Genre”

2.30 - 3.00 pm

Break

3.00 - 4.00 pm

Martina Di Tullio, University of Buenos Aires
“Rooting the Internet: A Local History of Communication Practices in Rural-Indigenous Jujuy Puna (Argentina)”

Yehuda Silverman, Northwestern University – Civic Education Project
“A Transformative Autoethnographic Analysis of Acquaint.org’s Platform”

5.30 – 8.15 pm

Futures 2
Moderation: Fergal Lenehan

5.30 - 6.30 pm

Mareike Schütt, Friedrich Schiller University of Jena?
“The Solarpunk movement as a transcultural force reimagining global connectivity, digital inclusivity, and ecological sustainability”

Andrew Bailey, Concordia University
“Archiving the Self: MaddyMakesGames.com and the Digital Memory of Indie Game Development”

6.30 - 7.00 pm

Break

7.00 - 8.00 pm

Keynote Speech 4: Ramesh Srinivasan, University of California, Los Angeles?
"Beyond Fragmentation - A Path for Technology to Support our Collective Futures"

8.00 - 8.15 pm

Conclusion