Upcoming Events by the Junior Professorship Team
Panel Organization "New Perspectives on (Digital) Interculturality", organized in cooperation between ReDICo (Researching Digital Researching Digital Interculturality Cooperatively), and the Junior Professorship for Intercultural Praxis with a Focus on Digital Culture. The panel will take place as part of the 26th Intercultural Summer Academy, titled "(Re-)Imagining Interculturality: Relations, Complexities, and Digitality," on September 25, 2025, at Friedrich Schiller University Jena (Zwätzengasse) and online via Zoom.
Sektion 7 „Perspectivas decoloniales en la enseñanza de dinámicas culturales hispanoamericanas: cruzando umbrales hacia la pluralidad y la post-digitalidad“. Die Sektion wird gemeinsam von Dr. Ana Troncoso und Jun.-Prof. Dr. Yolanda López García organisiert und ist Teil der Jornadas Hispánicas „Umbrales. Polifonías, pluricentrismo y post-digitalidad“ des Deutschen Spanischlehrkräfteverbands (DSV), die vom 26. bis 28. Februar 2026 in Freiburg stattfindet.
Past Events by the Junior Professorship Team
Making the City: Industriestädte im Wandel: Ein interkultureller Dialog in der Kulturhauptstadt Chemnitz. Besuch von Studierenden der Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, des Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA) Lyon (Frankreich) und der Jan-Evangelista-Purkyně-Universität Ústí nad Labem (Tschechische Republik) an der TU Chemnitz im Rahmen der Kulturhauptstadt Chemnitz. More information here.
4th Annual Meth@Mig Workshop "Between Data and Dialogue: Focusing on Participants in Migration Research" to be held on April 3-4, 2025 at Chemnitz University of Technology. More information here.
Ibero-American Network of Imaginaries and Representations (RIIR) "Conversatorio 2024: Imaginarios de la Migración" on November 29, 2024. More information here.
- 23.01.2025: The Junior Professorship Intercultural Practice with a Focus on Digital Cultures cordially invited to the inaugural lecture by Junior Professor Dr. Yolanda López García. She spoke on the topic “Imaginaries of Whitexicans: Exploring Coloniality in Postdigital Times”.
- 12.12.2024: Carmen Pereyra and Yolanda López lectured about "Mujeres que no fueron tapa’: prácticas digitales para reimaginar la feminidad" at the IV Encuentro Latinoamericano de Antropología Digital. Online.
- 11.12.2024: The guest lecture "Decolonial Turn in Intercultural Communication: Mapping Theoretical Foundations and Praxes" by Prof. Dr Benachour Saidi (Mohamed First University, Morocco) took place as part of Yolanda López's lecture "Intercultural Communication and Competence". Chemnitz, Germany.
- 29.11.2024: The Junior Professorship was hosting the Ibero-American Network of Imaginaries and Representations (RIIR) "Conversatorio 2024: Imaginarios de la Migración" in collaboration with the Faculty of Sociology of the Universidad Santo Tomás, Colombia. The event was held in Spanish and made public via live broadcast on the RIIR YouTube channel. More Information here.
- 24.-26.09.2024: Junior professor Yolanda López was invited as a keynote speaker at the EC2U Alliance conference „Multilingualism, Cultural Diversity and Education for Sustainable Development in Higher Education“. Poitiers, France.
- 23.-25.09.2024: Carmen Pereyra, Research Associate at the Juniorprofessorship, joined the 4th Vienna Anthropology Days (#VANDA) at the University of Vienna. Carmen Pereyra shared the ongoing research she and Yolanda López are conducting on Latin American migrant women living in Germany, discussing aspects of digital anthropology, participatory research, and exploring themes in digital migration studies and postdigitality. Vienna, Austria.
- 18.09.2024: Participation in the Digital Anthropology Talk "Activism, Representation, and Digital Praxis" organized by the Red Latinoamericana de Antropología Digital, featuring an interdisciplinary and international group of panelists. The event explored social media practices from various perspectives, emphasizing the importance of a global-local lens in understanding the formation of digital communities, where activism and politics emerge as key elements to be interpreted within digital spaces. Yolanda López contributed to this discussion with her presentation on "Coloniality Practices in Postdigitality". The talk in Spanish language is available here.
- 04.-06.09.2024: Yolanda López held chair in Panel “Comparative Analysis of Logics, Practices, and Transfer Mechanisms in Migration Research” with colleagues from Germany, Italy, Mexico and Brazil. Conference “Bordering Society: Understanding and Reimagining Migration, Displacement and Diversity in an Age of Rapid Transformations”. University of Birmingham, England.
- 18.-21.08.2024: “Deconstructing the Social Construction of Categories and their Intersectionality – Examples on (De)Coloniality and Diversity from Mexico, Italy and Germany“ with Juniorprofessors Barbara Gross and Yolanda López. Participation in ISCHE 45 - Annual Conference (De)Coloniality and Diversity in the Histories of Education. Natal, Brazil.
- 08.-12.07.2024: Reconfiguración de Identidades Postdigitales: Explorando el fenómeno Whitexican en México [Reconfiguring post-digital identities: exploring the phenomenon of whitexicans in Mexico]. Yolanda López participates in the 10th International Congress for Anthropology AIBR „Inteligencia Antropológica“ [Anthropological Intelligence]. Madrid, Spain & online.
- 02.-05.07.2024: “Postdigital Migration Studies: Methodological Challenges, Ethical Reflections, and the Significance of Social Imaginaries”. Yolanda López participated in the 21st IMISCOE Annual Conference. Lisbon, Portugal & online.
- 25.-27.04.2024: Junior professor López participated in the Networking-Meeting of the IMISCOE-Standing Committee "Methodological Approaches and Tools in Migration Research (Meth@Mig)" as well as the Workshop "Strategien zur Teilnehmergewinnung und Stichprobenmethoden in der Migrationsforschung" [Strategies for participant recruitment and sampling methods in Migration Research] at GESIS – Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften in Mannheim, Germany.
- 23.04.2024: Yolanda López spoke at the workshop "Erfolgreich Bewerben auf eine (Junior-)Professur in den Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften" [Successfully applying for a (junior) professorship in humanities and social sciences]. This workshop was held with Prof. Dr. Michael Hinz und Prof. Dr. Moritz Schumann. Chemnitz, Germany.
- 26.-28.03.2024: Junior professor López coordinated Strand 5, "Critical Intercultural Competence and Practice", in collaboration with Prof. Dr. Agostino Portera (University of Verona) and Dr. Mattia Baiutti (Fondazione Intercultura ets) at the conference "DEIB+ in Education to Transform Society". Additionally, Yolanda López presented "Reimagining Critical Intercultural Competence: Decolonial Perspectives on Interculturality". The conference was organized by Junior professor Barbara Gross and the International Association for Intercultural Education. Chemnitz, Germany.
- 04.-05.03.2024: Yolanda López participated in the Workshop "Towards Postmigrant Social Imaginaries" at FSU Jena. The Junior professor presented the topic "#Storytime! Imaginaries of Coloniality and Migration in Social Media". She also took part in the 33rd intercultural interdisciplinary colloquium for doctoral students, which was organized by the Hochschulverband für interkulturelle Studien e.V. (IKS) and the ReDICo project (Researching Digital Interculturality Co-operatively). Jena, Germany.
- Winter semester 2023/24: As part of Yolanda López lecture “Intercultural Communication and Competence”, the last block was dedicated to a practice-oriented approach. Prof. Dr. Maja Störmer from the International University (IU) gave an online lecture with the title “Intercultural Training: A Critical Look at Practice” in December 2023. In January 2024, the students took part in a “Virtual Escape Room” led by Interculture.de. This was further accompanied by a session reflecting on this method in the field of intercultural learning.
- 12.12.2023: First online round table as part of the Standing Committee “Methodological Approaches and Tools in Migration Research” (Meth@Mig) of IMISCOE. The participants exchanged views on their research and gave insights into their work. Participants were: Barbara Jancewicz (University of Warsaw), Boyang Yin (University of Sheffield), Laila Omar (Princeton University), Tatiana Eremenko (University of Salamanca) and Yolanda López (Chemnitz University of Technology).
