DIGINAUTS: Border dissidence, digital resistance & the production of irregularized migrants

DIGINAUTS Conference and book workshop with TechFugees hackathon.

Programme (open part)

Thursday 24 October

Venue: South Campus, auditorium 22.0.11

09:00 - 09:15 Welcome by DIGINAUTS

09:15 - 09:45 Introduction to hackathon by TechFugees

09:45 - 10:45 Keynote Navigating the Aegean Sea: Smartphones,
                        transnational activism and via political in(ter)ventions in
                        contested maritime borderzones
                        Simon Noori

10:45 - 11:00 Coffee

11:00 - 12:30  Doing research on borders and migrants' digital practices.
                        Reflections on the state of the art and future paths
                        Panel Discussion: Anna Lundberg, Ninna Nyberg Sørensen
                        and Simon Noori

Friday 25 October

Venue: IT University of Copenhagen, room 4A14

13:30 - 14:30 Keynote Technologies of Flight. Notes on Recognition,
Denial, Capturing and the mobile Commons of Migration
Brigitta Kuster and Vasilis Tsianos

14:30 - 15:00 Hackathon presentation of winning projects and prizes

15:00 - 16:30 Drinks reception with presentations of hackathon projects

About DIGINAUTS

The Velux Core Group Project: Diginauts: Migrants’ Digital Practices in/of the European Border Regime is an interdisciplinary research project, which explores migrants’ widespread, varied and innovative digital practices as they navigate through and in the European border regime, and potentially create networks of solidarity and remake migration. The project is a collaboration between AUU, UCPH and ITU. Read more