UCL International Centre for Intercultural Studies Seminar Series: Digital Intercultural Communication, University College London (UCL) Institute of Education, London, UK, 2026-27.
The digital intercultural communication talk series brings together leading scholars working at the intersection of digital communication, culture, interculturality, and postdigital life. Talks examine how language, digitality, and interculturality shape one another across platforms, tools, and postdigital communicative practices, and help us understand what digital intercultural practice means in an increasingly interconnected, technologically mediated world.
20 October 2026, 12-13, Revisiting Interculturality in the Digital Era
Panel discussion, online (Register by October 16)
* Milene Oliveira on postdigitality and a framework for analysing digital intercultural practice
* Fotini Diamantidaki on the human encounter in COIL projects
* Giuliana Ferri on generative AI, political economy and the limits of intercultural dialogue
* David Wei Dai on developing CritIC (Critical Interactional Competence) in AI-mediated intercultural professional communication, and
* Áine McAllister on the role of the poetic imagination (and how to activate it) as both a counterbalance and an ‘anamchara’, as we move further on through the digital realm.
29 October 2026, 17:15 – 18:15, Rodney H. Jones, in person
When AI talk to each other: Intercultural encounters with AI communities
17 November 2026, 17:15 – 18:15, Gordon Blaine West, in person
Ice cream dumplings: Transpositioning through friction across digital mediums
10 December 2026, , 18:15 – 19:15, Christoffer Guldberg, in person
AI as mirror and canvas: Communication, knowledge and agency in the age of AI
