Welcome to the Junior Professorship Intercultural Practice with a Focus on Digital Cultures
Main areas of research and teaching
The research and teaching topics of the junior professorship address the reconfiguration of everyday life in a postdigital field of action, especially on the topic of migration. The postdigital field of action is understood as the continuity of everyday life in "offline" and "online" fields of action, which are not to be understood dichotomously.
The junior professorship is structured in three thematic areas:
- Postdigital (inter)culturality and social E-maginaries
- Postdigital intercultural practices in the context of migration and internet-mediated interactions.
- E-maginaries of coloniality in social networks
Within the Research Lab on Postdigital (Inter)Culturality, data for the study of (inter)cultural practices, postdigital cultures, digital migration studies and coloniality in social media are observed, collected, analysed and archived, while qualitative methods for the study of the postdigital context are further developed.
The junior professorship coordinates internationalisation and Erasmus+ affairs.
News
The latest updates and daily information about the work of the junior professorship can be found on our Instagram channel @intercultural_praxis! and the bluesky channel Intercultural Practice with a focus on Digital Cultures @TUC @digitalculture-tuc.bsky.social There you will find information about new scientific publications, special teaching experiences and other activities of the junior professor.
Visiting Scholar Prof. Dr. Benachour Saidi at the Junior Professorship
We are pleased to welcome Prof. Dr. Benachour Saidi from Mohamed First University, Morocco, as a visiting scholar at the Junior Professorship. Together with Jun.-Prof. Dr. Yolanda López García, Prof. Saidi will collaborate on the topic of critical interculturality. Both scholars have benefited from the Visiting Scholar Program of TU Chemnitz, which made this collaboration possible.
During his stay, Prof. Saidi will also contribute to the lecture and seminar program of the Junior Professorship and will be available for student consultations.
Further events and activities involving Prof. Saidi will be announced shortly.
Upcoming Events:
On 15 October 2025, Jun.-Prof. Dr. Yolanda López García will give a guest lecture titled "Habitar el ‘entre’: reflexiones críticas sobre interculturalidad desde la experiencia migrante" at the Universidad de Guadalajara (Mexico). The lecture takes place as part of the Seminario de Comunicación Intercultural of the División de Estudios de la Cultura Regional, Departamento de Humanidades, Artes y Culturas Extranjeras, at the Centro Universitario de Los Lagos.
Abstract (English)
Migration processes transform not only places of living but also imaginaries, identities, and ways of relating to the world. In her guest lecture "Habitar el ‘entre’: reflexiones críticas sobre interculturalidad desde la experiencia migrante", Jun.-Prof. Dr. Yolanda López García offers a situated reflection that connects her academic trajectory with her personal migration experience in order to critically rethink interculturality.
Drawing on her research areas — migration, social imaginaries, (post)digital intercultural practices, and critical intercultural communication — as well as her work at Technische Universität Chemnitz, she shows from a praxeological perspective how the “in-between” can be understood as a dynamic constellation of practices in which tensions are negotiated, subjectivities are reconfigured, and theory and practice are brought into dialogue.
Additionally, the lecture introduces students of the Centro Universitario de Los Lagos, Universidad de Guadalajara (Mexico) to Technische Universität Chemnitz, opening new perspectives for intercultural learning and academic exchange.
Abstract (Español)
En los procesos migratorios no solo cambian los lugares de vida, sino también los imaginarios, las identidades y las formas de relación con el mundo. En su conferencia “Habitar el ‘entre’: reflexiones críticas sobre interculturalidad desde la experiencia migrante”, Jun.-Prof. Dr. Yolanda López García desarrolla una reflexión situada que articula su trayectoria académica con su experiencia migrante para repensar críticamente la interculturalidad.
A partir de sus líneas de investigación — Migración, Imaginarios Sociales, Prácticas Interculturales (Post)digitales y Comunicación Intercultural Crítica — y de su labor en la Technische Universität Chemnitz, muestra desde una perspectiva praxeológica cómo el “entre” puede entenderse como un entramado dinámico de prácticas, en el que se negocian tensiones, se reconfiguran subjetividades y se ponen en diálogo la teoría y la práctica.
Asimismo, la conferencia ofrece a las y los estudiantes del Centro Universitario de Los Lagos, Universidad de Guadalajara (México) una presentación de la Technische Universität Chemnitz y abre nuevas perspectivas para el aprendizaje intercultural y el intercambio académico.
HDS. Forum 2025 Individualisation in Higher Education. Inspiration from European University Alliances
On 23 October 2025, Jun.-Prof. Dr. Yolanda López García will participate in the HDS.Forum 2025 – Individualisation in Higher Education. Inspiration from European University Alliances. The conference is organised by Hochschuldidaktik Sachsen (HDS) in cooperation with Technische Universität Chemnitz (TUC) and the alliance ACROSS: European Cross-Border University.
Jun.-Prof. Dr. López García will be a panelist in the discussion "Students and teachers in discourse: How can individualization succeed in university teaching?" (Moderation: Susann Lippman).
Further information about the event is available on the HDS website: HDS.Forum 2025 – Individualisation in Higher Education
Guest Lecture: Criticality, Interculturality and Decoloniality – A Southern Praxis.
As part of the course "Intercultural Communication and Competence: Critical Perspectives" at the Department of Intercultural Communication, the Junior Professorship “Intercultural Praxis with a Focus on Digital Culture” is delighted to invite you to a guest lecture by Prof. Dr. Benachour Saidi (Mohamed First University, Morocco), visiting scholar at the Junior Professorship.
In this lecture, Prof. Dr. Saidi explores the epistemic intersections between criticality, interculturality, and decoloniality, challenging their conceptual boundaries, tensions, and implications within knowledge production. He argues that discourses around interculturality often remain depoliticized, relying on tokenized forms of epistemic diversity, and calls for a more critical, decolonial engagement with intercultural praxis.
đź“… Date: 29 October 2025đź•” Time: 17:15 – 18:45đź“Ť Location: C10.101 (alternative: 2/N101)
All students, researchers, and interested guests are warmly invited to attend.
Perspectivas decoloniales en la enseñanza de dinámicas culturales hispanoamericanas: cruzando umbrales hacia la pluralidad y la post-digitalidad.
Section 7 is organized jointly by Dr. Ana Troncoso and Junior Professor Dr. Yolanda López García and is part of the Jornadas Hispánicas, held under the theme “Umbrales. Polifonías, pluricentrismo y post-digitalidad”, hosted by the German Association of Spanish Teachers (DSV).The conference will take place from February 26 to 28, 2026, in Freiburg.
New publications:
- López García, Y. (2025). Exploring Whitexicans' narratives of Europeaness in the postdigital field of action. In F. Lenehan & R. Lietz (Eds.), Reimagining Digital Cosmopolitanism: Perspectives from a Postmigrant and Postdigital World (pp.303-335). Bielefeld: transcript Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839475324
