Digital Spaces & Creative Methodologies Panel

Digital Spaces & Creative Methodologies Panel

Friday 8 November 2024, 1pm

Colin Matthew Room, Radcliffe Humanities

Speakers: Tanvi Kanchan, Dr Keisha Bruce's

All welcome

Join us for our first panel discussion of our 2024/25 programme, where we will hear from Tanvi Kanchan, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), and Dr Keisha Bruce (Independent) speak about their work on digital spaces and creative methods. Each contributor will present a short paper, which will be followed by a Q&A and group discussion to close the session. We look forward to welcoming you all!

Queer digital cultures, queerer methods

 Tanvi Kanchan (they/them) is a final-year PhD candidate and teaching assistant in the Department of Politics and International Studies at SOAS, University of London. Their doctoral research explores gender, sexuality, religion, caste, nationalism, and state-corporate surveillance in Indian queer and trans women’s digital cultures. They hold an MA in International Journalisms from SOAS and a BMM in Journalism from University of Mumbai. Their work has been published in Communication, Culture & Critique and the DiSCo (Digital Studies Collective) Journal. They have previously worked as a journalist and communications professional covering gender, sexuality, politics, music and culture, and digital justice.

The Poetic Figuration of Researching Diasporic Intimacies

 Dr Keisha Bruce's (she/they) work centres the diaspora in articulations of blackness, community, and being. They are deeply interested in the ways that the Black diaspora might be moved by feeling, intimacies, and affect. As such, they are a pleasure seeker and a worldbuilder. They believe in the generative power of imagination, fantasy, and (other)worlding as a liberatory, queer praxis of existence. Their research has been published in Women's Studies Quarterly, Journal of Postcolonial Writing, and Feminist Media Studies. You can find more about keisha's work at www.keishabruce.com.

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