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Symposium: Queer Solidarity Across and Beyond Borders

On May 30-31, 2022, the Department of Gender Studies at Lund University will host a symposium organised by a group of staff members including Mia Liinason and Onur Kilic from TechnAct. The symposium invites LGBTQI+ activists from Hungary, Poland, Sweden, and Turkey for creating a transnational platform of discussion and sharing knowledges of resistance. Below…

by technact May 20, 2022

Online-offline: What life is like for LGBTI+ individuals inside authoritarian regimes

During the spring term, Signe Lind was an intern with TechnAct. During her time with us, she wrote a paper called ‘Online-offline: What life is like for LGBTI+ individuals inside authoritarian regimes’ where she interviewed various activists to try to understand their experiences. Signe Lind is a Bachelor’s student of Liberal Arts at the University…

by technact January 24, 2022

TechnAct Podcast: The critical work of masculinities – Interview with Javier Omar Ruiz

In this episode of the TechnAct Podcast, we interview Javier Omar Ruiz, a popular educator and co-founder of the Colectivo Hombres y Masculinidades (Men and Masculinities Collective) in Colombia. We had an insightful and interesting conversation about the critical work of masculinities. This podcast was recorded in Spanish, but for those who don’t understand Spanish,…

by technact January 24, 2022

Workshop at Lund University

In December, Lund University will host a Workshop organised by Mia Liinason (Lund University), Selin Çağatay (CEU), and Olga Sasunkevich (University of Gothenburg). The workshop, Working transnationally beyond comparative hierarchies. Exploring relationalities, solidarities and changing conditions in transnational research and pedagogies, can be joined in person or online. If you would like to hear more…

by technact November 5, 2021

Paper to be published at HICSS-55 Conference

A new paper by Nadia Ruiz-Bravo and Lisen Selander of TechnAct with Maryam Roshan is going to be published at the HICSS-55 Conference in early 2022. The paper, The Political Turn of Twitch – Understanding Live Chat as an Emergent Political Space will be presented by Nadia during the conference which runs from the 4th…

by technact September 29, 2021

Season 2 of the TechnAct Podcast is here!

Welcome to Season 2 of the TechnAct podcast! Sama Khosravi Ooryad, the new Ph.D. in the TechnAct cluster, joins Nadia and Onur to host the podcast in this new season. In the first episode, we we had an insightful and interesting conversation with Zeynab Peyghambarzadeh who is a bisexual activist and scholar with a long…

by technact August 2, 2021

Call for Papers for a special issue of Frontiers in Sociology

Mia Liinason of TechnAct is co-editing a special issue of Frontiers in Sociology with Marta Cuesta and there is a call for papers. We invite contributions that critically engage with the emergent possibilities and risks for feminist, antiracist and LGBTI+ subjects and struggles in digital times, that examine the diverse effects on digital activism and…

by technact June 21, 2021June 21, 2021

Symposium: Digital Platforms and Collective Rights

We are pleased to invite you to the TechnAct summer meet-up symposium on ‘digital platforms and collective rights’ on June 17, 2021! The event is online and will take place on Zoom (registration is required). Please register by sending an email before the event to mia.liinason@gu.se The symposium will feature five invited speakers and start…

by technact May 19, 2021

CANCELLED! Seminar with Dr. Hamid Pousti

We are sorry for this late notice. We will announce a new date after Easter.