Programme and Schedule

Below you will find the Programme and Schedule for the first hype conference: (Don't) believe the hype !? We are very excited to have received so many excellent and diverse contributions.

The full Abstract Booklet with the titles and abstracts of the contributors, presentations, workshops and art works can be accessed here:

--> Abstract Booklet

The full Programme and Schedule, with all the information you will need, can be accessed and downloaded here:

--> Programme and Schedule

For a quick overview of the schedule, take a look below. Note: we changed the times on Monday and on Friday morning you will need to bring your own coffee!

Download the full calender schedule of the conference:

--> hypestudies.org/conference_schedule.ics

Day 1 | 10.09.2025

9.30 - 13:30: Registration desk open

10:00 - 11:00: Welcome and programme presentation (DotCom Room)

11:00 - 11:30: Coffee break

11:30 - 13:30: Panel session 1

1. DotCom Room: AI Hype: Between Power and Resistance
2. Nanotechnology Room: Energy Hype: Green Futures and Controversies
3. Internet of Things Room: Commodification, Libido and Emotions in Hype
4. Metaverse Room: Internet of Things Room: Hype, Entrepreneurship, Venture
   Capital, and Emerging Technologies
5. Web 3 Room: Hype in Science and its Histories

13.30 - 15:00: Lunch

15:00 -16:30: Workshop (and Panel) session A

1. DotCom Room: Hype, Human FlourishingTM and its Discontents" (online
   workshop)
2. Nanotechnology Room: Shitpublishing Workshop (in person workshop)
3. Internet of Things Room: A Quantum of Hope: putting quantum science &
   tech on the theater stage (in person workshop)
4. Metaverse Room: After Hype (hybrid book presentation)
5. Web 3 Room: (STARTS AT 14:00!) Exploring metaphors of AI: Visualisations,
   narratives and perception (online panel)

Virtual Reality Room: Arts Exhibition

16:30 -17.00: Coffee break

17.00 -18.30: Keynote by Gemma Milne: Hype and the Age of Badness (in room U0.2,
ground floor)

Day 2 | 11.09.2025

9:00 - 13:30: Registration desk open

9:00 - 11:00: Panel session 2
6. DotCom Room: Socio-Ethical Dilemmas and Health Hype
7. Nanotechnology Room: Political Communication and Disinformation
8. Internet of Things Room: Decoding Scripts and Rituals of Hype
9. Metaverse Room: Hype, Emotions and Panics
10. Web 3 Room: What Hype Obscures: Hidden Labour and Environmental
Impacts

11:00 - 11:30: Coffee break

11:30 - 13:30: Panel session 3
11. DotCom Room: Materiality and Infrastructure of Hype
12. Nanotechnology Room: Awards, Fashions, and Social Dynamics
13. Internet of Things Room: Hype, Culture & Identity
14. Metaverse Room: Music, Aesthetics and Theatre
15. Web 3 Room: Governing through hype: Politics & Legitimacy

13.30 - 15:00: Lunch

15:00 -16:30: Workshop session B
6. DotCom Room: Locating Hype: Digital qualitative methods across sites and
forms (an in person open discussion)
7. Nanotechnology Room: Humbling Tech Hype: Assessing Change and
Continuity (in person workshop)
8. Internet of Things Room: A collective critical cartography of hype (in person
workshop)
9. Metaverse Room: Investigating Datasets - The underbelly of the AI Hype
(hybrid workshop)
10. Web 3 Room: Hype Was Here: Tracing the ghosts of collective excitement (in
person workshop)

Virtual Reality Room: Arts Exhibition

16:30 - 17.00: Coffee break

17:00 - 18.30: Plenary Panel discussion with Christo Buschek, Ola Michalec, Oksana
Dorofeeva, Jack Stilgoe and Gemma Milne. Moderated by Vassilis Galanos. (DotCom
Room)

19:00 – party start: informal gathering for food at Plaça Osca

20:00 - Whoop: Party! (first 25 people to arrive get a free beer!)

Day 3 | 12.09.2025

9:00 - 10:00: Registration desk open (Reminder: grab your own coffee for this morning!)

10:00 - 12:00: Panel session 4
16. DotCom Room: AI in Daily Life: Affective and Everyday Interventions
17. Nanotechnology Room: Hype, Education, and Public Communication
18. Internet of Things Room: Intervening with the AI Hype
19. Metaverse Room: Hype and Resistance: Alternative Futures
20. Web 3 Room: Towards New Theorizations of Hype

12:15 - 13:00: Video screening (DotCom room)

13.30 - 15.00: Lunch

15:00 -16:30: Workshop session C
11. DotCom Room: Queering Hype: A Playable Workshop for Trans/forming
Predictive AI (in person workshop)
12. Nanotechnology Room: When Hype breaks the City (online workshop)
13. Internet of Things Room: Detectives of Hype: Surfacing Bias and Worldviews in
Our Sensemaking Processes (in person workshop)
14. Metaverse Room: I want to be a Caring Trickster! An Emo Hype with Potential?
(online workshop)
15. Web 3 Room: Digging into Hype: Multiplayer Mining for Meaning (online
workshop)

Virtual Reality Room: Arts Exhibition

16:30 -17:00: Coffee break

17:00 - 18:00: Closing of the conference (DotCom Room)