8:30 – 9:00 a.m. (CET)

9:00 – 9:15 a.m. (CET)

9:15 – 10:45 a.m. (CET)

Registration & Coffee

Conference Opening

Bodies and Digital Technologies

Chair: Johannes Paßmann (Ruhr-University Bochum)

Performative Transformations: The Role of Filters in Redefining Bodily Performances

İbrahim Emre Günay | Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University

Motion Capture: The Multiplicity of Jar Jar Binks in Star Wars

Richard Aude | University of Leipzig

Silicon Bodies: Multisensory Exploration of AI in Literature

Loredana Filip | LMU Munich

10:45 – 11:00 a.m. (CET)

11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. (CET)

Coffee Break

Body Norms, Affect, and Embodiments

Chair: Miriam Strube (Paderborn University) & Katharina Vester (American University)

Sculptural: (Not So) New Forms of Embodiment in Digital Media and the (Not So) Surprising Affective Anxieties They Generate

Paula-Irene Villa Braslavsky | LMU Munich

Digital Structure of Feeling: Emotions in Postfeminist Digital Culture

Adrienne Evans | Coventry University

12:00 – 12:15 p.m. (CET)

12:15 – 12:30 p.m. (CET)

Coffee Break

Welcome Address

Vice Rector for Academic Affairs
Kornelia Freitag | Ruhr-University Bochum

12:30 – 1:15 p.m. (CET)

Keynote Address

Chair: Heike Steinhoff (Ruhr-University Bochum)

Perfect Bodies and Perfect Selves: Feeling Judged on Social Media

Rosalind Gill | Goldsmiths, University of London

1:15 – 2:15 p.m. (CET)

2:15 – 3:15 p.m. (CET)

Lunch

Body Activism

Chair: Alexandra Hartmann (Paderborn University)

From #RepresentationMatters to System Change: #Body Justice Beyond Visibility and Self-Love

Elisabeth Lechner | University of Graz

“I Don’t Want Ozempic”: Fat Activism in the Ozempic Era

Evangelia Kindinger | HU Berlin

3:15 – 3:30 p.m. (CET)

3:30 – 4:30 p.m. (CET)

Coffee Break

Gender, Sex and Sexuality

Chair: Hannes Koberg (Ruhr-University Bochum)

The Use of the Body as a Site for Fluidity and Liberation: Contemporary Feminist of Colour Authorship Stagings on Digital Media

Sarah Back | University of Innsbruck

Redefining the Trans(Masculine) Body on TikTok: An Exploration of „Gender Envy“ Shortvideos

Lydia Schneider-Reuter | Ruhr-University Bochum

4:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. (CET)

6.30 p.m. (CET)

Concluding Discussion

Conference Dinner
(L’Osteria Bochum Husemann Karree – Viktoriastraße 14 a, 44787 Bochum)