CHAIR

Volha Verbilovich

(UMass Amherst, US)

vverbilovich@umass.edu

 

 

PAPERS

Sasha Razor

(UC Santa Barbara, US)

sasharazor@ucla.edu

Digital Diasporas and the Quest for Belarusian Liberation:
Analyzing Exilic Platforms and Governance in the Wake of the 2020 Failed Belarusian Uprising

 

Irina Aristarkhova

(U of Michigan, US)

airina@umich.edu

Digital Citizenship and Creative Political Resistance in Russia and Belarus

 

Zhasmina Tacheva

(Syracuse U, US)

ztacheva@syr.edu

“The ‘Genders’ are Taking Over”: 

Queer Bulgarian Diaspora’s Digital Frontline against Nationalist Violence

 

Jasmina Tumbas

(U at Buffalo, US)

jasminat@buffalo.edu

Yugoslav Hauntings in the Diaspora: 

Queer and Feminist Strategies of Resistance Against Nationalism

 

 

DISCUSSANT

Saida Hodžić

(Cornell U, US)

sh888@cornell.edu