Sorbian lifeworlds in the digital age

The conference "Sorbian Lifeworlds in the Digital Age: Transdisciplinary Forum on the Present and Future of Sorbian/Wendish Digital Culture" is being organised in cooperation with BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg, the Sorbian Institute and DomPro gGmbH.

The event is aimed at academics, but also in particular at digital culture experts, Sorabists, IT developers, producers and users of digital tools and resources.

Thursday, 20 March to Friday, 21 March 2025
Start-up Centre Startblock B2, Siemens-Halske-Ring 2, 03046 Cottbus/Chóśebuz

After an introduction to the task and akeynote "Digital cultures and national minorities - new opportunities, old challenges?", the module areas: Communities, Spaces, Infrastructures, Practices and Imagined Worlds will be explored in depth in five different panels, promising plenty of interaction. Short specialist presentations will provide food for thought, while project presentations will illustrate the potential and challenges of digitalisation. The World Café "Sorbian digital futures" on the second day of the event will present results and perspectives from the exchange of expertise. In addition, on 20 March, 5:30 - 8 p.m., interested parties can try out digital tools and developments from the context of Sorbian/Wendish culture directly at an interactive trade fair. The projects presented will show examples of how digitalisation affects Sorbian/Wendish culture.

The results of the forum will become clearin the concluding panel discussion on 21 March, 3-4 pm. Researchersfrom the field of "digital culture" and Sorbian studies as well as users of Sorbian digital resources will discuss their views on the topic together with representatives from the Sorbian IT industry:

• Jan Budar (Director of the Foundation for the Sorbian People)
• Prof. Dr Hauke Bartels (Sorbian Institute / Dresden University of Technology)
• Alena Pawlikec (Network for Regional Identity and Language Management ZARI)
• Annie Eckert MA, Dr Isabella Kölz, Dr Nadine Wagener-Böck (StudioLab "Arbeit an Arbeit") and
• Anca Claudia Prodan, Ph.D. (BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg / Sorbian Institute)
  Moderation: Dr Anastasija Kostiučenko-Kessler, Sorbian Institute

Digital technologies are shaping all areas of life in society. Scientists from various universities, together with cultural workers, filmmakers and representatives of the Foundation for the Sorbian People, Sorbian associations and the Sorbian Institute, will examine the effects this has on Sorbian-Wendish culture.

Additional information and programme:

Contact:

Madlen Domaschke, Sorbian Institute Bautzen, T +49 3591 4972-54, madlen.domaschke(at)serbski-institut.de,www.serbski-institut.de

Anca Claudia Prodan, Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg (BTU), Chair of Technoscience Studies, E Anca.Prodan(at)b-tu.de, +49 355 69 2123