Assistant Professor in Digital Humanities, TCD
The rising popularity of paranormal investigations on YouTube can be considered a new form of armchair travel, namely virtual dark tourism. In October 2022, I discovered the Sam and Colby YouTube channel, which now has over 10 million subscribers and the first episode of their four-part 2023 “Hell Week” series […]
Dark Tourism: Memory, Pilgrimage and the Digital Realm 9 May 2022 | 9:00 – 17:30 (UK time) Hosted by: Edinburgh Napier University, Scotland, UK About the Symposium: The Tourism Department (The Business School) and the School of Arts and Creative Industries at Edinburgh Napier University are hosting a fascinating dark […]
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Participate in the Working on Europe YUFE Academy! I am part of the upcoming Working on Europe YUFE Academy in September 2021, which is a series of research-centred lectures jointly organised by Maastricht University and Studio Europa Maastricht under the Young Universities for the Future of Europe (YUFE) alliance. This […]
Cultural Identities in a Global World: Reframing Cultural Hybridity A Laboratory Conference Hosted by the International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany This week I attended a 3-day “Laboratory Conference” on the topic of cultural hybridity and identities in a globalised world. The conceptualisation […]