Keynote roundtables
#1 HUMANITIES IN THE AGE OF THE DERIVATIVE (Intro)
Post-structuralism proclaimed the “death of the author”, postmodernism the “end of grand narratives” and digital humanities the “end of the book”. In contemporary network culture, fan fiction, fake news, micro-genres, memes and GIFs push against core humanities ideas -- and the social hierarchies built up around them -- including authorship, legitimacy, the work, audience, reading, logocentrism, originality, provenance, meaning, publication/the public, etc. This roundtable will bring together scholars across a range of humanities and social science disciplines (literary studies, history, archaeology, anthropology, media studies) who have been working actively with paradigms such as ‘digital humanities’, ‘public humanities’ and ‘experimental humanities’ to consider the state of the field.
#2 ALGORITHM AS AUTHOR
This roundtable will challenge experts in the theory, history and ethnography of technology to consider the impact of the ‘datalogical turn’ and algorithmic culture on conceptions of subjectivity, narrative, author/ity and value in contemporary society.
Moderator: Penelope Papailias (University of Thessaly)
Participants: Mitsos Bilalis (University of Thessaly) | Despina Catapoti (University of the Aegean) | Maria Cecire (Bard College, New York) | Agata Lisiak (Bard College Berlin) | Manolis Patiniotis (University of Athens) | Petros Petridis (University of Thessaly) | Despoina Valatsou (Research Centre for the Humanities)
#3 NETWORKED IMAGES AND PARTICIPANT ETHNOGRAPHIES
Contemporary digital culture is predominated by image- and video-centered genres - from memes and GIFs to Instagram stories and machinima. At the same time, network connectivity and database modularity have enabled the emergence of new modes of interactive and participatory storytelling. What are the implications of these transformations for anthropological knowledge production and our own storytelling? This panel brings together leading scholars and practitioners who are experimenting within (and beyond) paradigms such as visual anthropology, multimodal anthropology and participatory ethnography to share their thoughts on new modes of (re)presenting, producing and disseminating cultural knowledge.
Moderator: Penelope Papailias (University of Thessaly)
Participants: Steffen Köhn (Freie University Berlin) | Maple J. Razsa (Colby College, Maine) | Christos Varvantakis (Goldsmiths University of London) (online) | Eleana Yalouri (Panteion University of Social & Political Sciences, Athens)
Post-structuralism proclaimed the “death of the author”, postmodernism the “end of grand narratives” and digital humanities the “end of the book”. In contemporary network culture, fan fiction, fake news, micro-genres, memes and GIFs push against core humanities ideas -- and the social hierarchies built up around them -- including authorship, legitimacy, the work, audience, reading, logocentrism, originality, provenance, meaning, publication/the public, etc. This roundtable will bring together scholars across a range of humanities and social science disciplines (literary studies, history, archaeology, anthropology, media studies) who have been working actively with paradigms such as ‘digital humanities’, ‘public humanities’ and ‘experimental humanities’ to consider the state of the field.
#2 ALGORITHM AS AUTHOR
This roundtable will challenge experts in the theory, history and ethnography of technology to consider the impact of the ‘datalogical turn’ and algorithmic culture on conceptions of subjectivity, narrative, author/ity and value in contemporary society.
Moderator: Penelope Papailias (University of Thessaly)
Participants: Mitsos Bilalis (University of Thessaly) | Despina Catapoti (University of the Aegean) | Maria Cecire (Bard College, New York) | Agata Lisiak (Bard College Berlin) | Manolis Patiniotis (University of Athens) | Petros Petridis (University of Thessaly) | Despoina Valatsou (Research Centre for the Humanities)
#3 NETWORKED IMAGES AND PARTICIPANT ETHNOGRAPHIES
Contemporary digital culture is predominated by image- and video-centered genres - from memes and GIFs to Instagram stories and machinima. At the same time, network connectivity and database modularity have enabled the emergence of new modes of interactive and participatory storytelling. What are the implications of these transformations for anthropological knowledge production and our own storytelling? This panel brings together leading scholars and practitioners who are experimenting within (and beyond) paradigms such as visual anthropology, multimodal anthropology and participatory ethnography to share their thoughts on new modes of (re)presenting, producing and disseminating cultural knowledge.
Moderator: Penelope Papailias (University of Thessaly)
Participants: Steffen Köhn (Freie University Berlin) | Maple J. Razsa (Colby College, Maine) | Christos Varvantakis (Goldsmiths University of London) (online) | Eleana Yalouri (Panteion University of Social & Political Sciences, Athens)