EASA2024
| EASA2024 | |
|---|---|
| Type | Conference |
| Categories (tags) | Uncategorized, multimodality, multisensoriality, virtual reality |
| Dates | 2024/07/23 - 2024/07/26 |
| Link | https://www.easaonline.org/conferences/easa2024/programme |
| Address | University of Barcelona, Spain |
| Geolocation | 41° 23' 12", 2° 9' 47" |
| Abstract due | 2024/01/22 |
| Submission deadline | |
| Final version due | |
| Notification date | |
| Tweet | 2024 Barcelona EASA, panel P044 "Digital Sensorialities and Affects". We would like to attract multimodality scholars (multimodal CA, linguistic anthropology, video-mediated communication). Deadline 22 Jan. https://www.easaonline.org/conferences/easa2024/programme |
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EASA2024 Barcelona:
Details:
Dear colleagues and friends,
We are excited to extend an invitation to submit proposals for our upcoming panel at the 2024 Barcelona EASA biennale, titled "Digital Sensorialities and Affects". This panel, convened by David Berliner, Mariia Erofeeva (Université libre de Bruxelles), and Nils Klowait (Paderborn University), promises to be a stimulating and innovative exploration of the intersection of digital experiences and human sensoriality. Although the conference is anthropological, we would like to attract multimodality scholars (multimodal CA, linguistic anthropology, video-mediated communication) and make our panel more focused. More information below.
To participate, please submit your 250-word abstract through the EASA Call for Papers process.
To submit a paper, please follow this link: https://www.easaonline.org/conferences/easa2024/programme
The deadline for proposal submissions is 22 January.
P044: Digital Sensorialities and Affects
Short Abstract:
This panel delves into the heart of mediated experiences—video calls, social media, virtual realities, and the vast expanses of fictious online worlds. We critically examine the emergent patterns of sensorialities, interactions, identities, affects and embodiments shaped within these environments.
Long Abstract:
In a world confronting incessant emergencies—pandemics, wars, ecological crises—humankind grapples with the need to both “undo” established ways of being and “do” innovative forms of existence. Digital environments that cultivate collective experiences from afar provide a particular arrangement for the latter, a construction site for novel patterns of sociality, presence, and perception. This panel delves into the heart of mediated experiences—video calls, social media, virtual realities, and the vast expanses of fictious online worlds. We critically examine the emergent patterns of connectivities, interactions, identities, affects and embodiments shaped within these realms. Considering views that sensory perception is culturally contingent, and claims on the constructed nature of senses, we extend these debates into digital landscapes. Integrating insights from sensorial, affect and digital anthropology, this panel seeks to forge a novel discourse on digital sensorialities and feelings. We call for an interrogation into how sensory perception, emotional dispositions and bodily presence are reconfigured in digital environments. We challenge contributors to explore the augmentation of the body within digital domains and the resultant forms of embodiment; emotional experiences and togetherness in virtual worlds; the personal attachments to virtual representations (such as avatars) and the technologies enabling them. At the crossroad of theoretical/methodological discussions and ethnographical cases, this panel aims at contributing to a richer understanding of human sensory, emotional and social experiences in an increasingly digital world thus “doing” anthropology innovatively while “undoing” its conventional constraints.
