Monthly Archives: January 2016

Dates announced for Semester 2, 2015/16

The Digital Studies Seminar will convene on the following dates for the second semester of 2015/16 academic year:

  • Wed. 10 February 2016
  • Wed. 24 February 2016
  • Wed. 9 March 2016
  • Wed. 23 March 2016
  • Wed. 6 April 2016
  • Wed. 20 April 2016
  • Wed. 4 May 2016
  • Wed. 18 May 2016
  • Wed. 1 June 2016
  • Wed. 15 June 2016
  • Wed. 29 June 2016

It is anticipated that the first four sessions of the seminar series (10 Feb. – 23 Mar.) will continue to centre around a close reading of Bernard Stiegler’s recently translated aesthetic volume, entitled Symbolic Misery Vol. 2, The kastrophe of the Sensible (Polity, 2015).

Following the reconvening after the Easter holidays, the seminars will focus again on individual paper presentations. The speakers invited to present will be selected from Digital Studies’ international network. A list of the people involved in the international network can be found here.

Dates announced for Semester 1, 2015/16

The Digital Studies Seminar will convene on the following dates for the first semester of 2015/16 academic year:

  • 14 October
  • 28 October
  • 11 November
  • 25 November
  • 9 December

The first seminar (14 Oct.) will concern a paper presentation by Connell Vaughan, entitled “Vandalism in Cyberspace: From Street Art to ISIS”. Connell’s biog and the abstract of the paper can be downloaded here.

The following four meetings (28 Oct. – 9 Dec.) will centre around a close reading of Bernard Stiegler’s recently translated aesthetic volume, entitled Symbolic Misery Vol. 2, The kastrophe of the Sensible (Polity, 2015).