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Guest Lecture: Migration in Digital Memory: Navigating Identities, Narratives, and Politics
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Decolonial Mourning and Political Memory Work–Thinking through (Dis-)compassion and towards a Caring Commons
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Hanna Teichler (Frankfurt): “Transoceanic Memory. Environment, Narrative and Temporality in Anglophone Literature” | Transoceanic Exchanges
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Anne Kraume (Constance): “‘Todavía huelo la espuma del mar que me hicieron atravesar.’ Transoceanic Memory in 20th-Century Afro-Latin American Poetry” | Transoceanic Exchanges
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Romana Radlwimmer (Frankfurt): “Book Launch Lavapiés liegt am Meer. Historische Poetik eines Madrider Stadtviertels [Lavapiés by the Sea. Poetics of a neighborhood in Madrid]” | Transoceanic Exchanges
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Dr. Pavan Malreddy / Prof. Dr. Frank Schulze-Engler
Department of English and American Studies
Norbert-Wollheim-Platz 1
D-60629 Frankfurt am Main
To make an appointment:
Phone: 069/798-32352
Email: c.argast@em.uni-frankfurt.de
Prof. Dr. Jacopo Torregrossa
Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
Norbert-Wollheim-Platz 1
D-60629 Frankfurt am Main
To make an appointment:
Phone: 069/798-32021
Email: salerno-petersen@em.uni-frankfurt.de
Tuesday, 10 February 2026, 4pm-6pm CET
Campus Westend, IG 1.414
Dr. Tuğba Hasrak Hasdemir (Department of Public Relations and Advertising at the Faculty of Communication at Ankara Hacı Bayram Veli University):
“Migration in Digital Memory: Navigating Identities, Narratives, and Politics“
This presentation explores how migration and migrant experiences are represented and mediated through digital texts and visuals generated by artificial intelligence (AI). Focusing on international and European contexts (with particular attention to Turkey, a country that has shied from being a country of emigration to a key host state for migrants and refugees), the study examines how digital memory intersects with issues of identity, narrative, and political discourse. Drawing on content from two prominent multimodal AI platforms, ChatGPT (OpenAI) and Gemini (Google), the study analyzes both text-based and visual representations of migration, including forced, voluntary, economic, and asylum-related mobility. Through prompts such as “images of refugees, migrants, asylum seekers”, the research investigates dominant visual motifs (e.g., fences, boats, bags, children), portrayals of racial and ethnic identities, and the encoding of gendered roles. The study also considers how narrative structures, affective tones, and political framings in AI-generated content reflect, reinforce, or challenge dominant perceptions of migration and migrant identities. Within this framework, the analysis briefly addresses algorithmic bias as one of the factors that may subtly shape these representations, especially in relation to training data and content moderation policies. While not the primary focus, algorithmic bias is considered as part of the broader ecosystem influencing how migrant stories are digitally constructed and remembered. By engaging with the intersection of digital memory, identity, narrative, and politics, this study contributes to critical memory studies, migration discourse analysis, and the growing field of AI humanities.
Organised by the Frankfurt Memory Studies Platform.