Programme

TUESDAY, 11 June 2019

11.00-

Registration opens at Metsätalo, Unioninkatu 40, main entrance.

12.00-15.00

Workshop: Introduction to

Ethnography of Communication,

Metsätalo, Unioninkatu 40, Room 4

Facilitators: Michaela Winchatz, Evelyn Ho 

and Leah Sprain provide general introduction 

and introduce Cultural Discourse Analysis; 

Gerry Philipsen presents Speech Codes Theory. 

The workshop is open and free for all interested

in ethnography of communication. Please register here by June 7.

15.30-16.00

Opening ceremonies

16.00-17.30

KEYNOTE LECTURE,

Metsätalo, Unioninkatu 40, Room 4

Robert Craig, University of Colorado Boulder

"Cultivating Communication: Grounded Practical Theory,

Culture, and the Paradox of Pluralism"

WEDNESDAY, 12 June 2019

09.00-12.00

Interdisciplinary Moves: Language Ideology

and Ethnography of Communication

(Johanna Vaattovaara with Saila Poutiainen

and Hanna-Mari Pienimäki), Metsätalo, Room 4

Matthew Sung: Negotiating language ideologies

and identities in interactions in

multilingual contexts:

Transnational students in a Hong Kong university

Enesh Akhmatshina: Pan Arab Satellite Television:

Between the Language Ideology

and Factual Polyglossia

12.00-13.00

LUNCH at Hotel Arthur, Vuorikatu 19

13.00-14.30

Session 1a (Panel),

Metsätalo, Room 25

Session 2 (Educational scenes),

Metsätalo, Room 26

13.00-13.30

Hsin-I Sydney Yueh: Japan-Worshiping as Praxis:

Media Ethnography of Taiwan ACG Lovers’

Daily Communication

Karen Tracy & Robert T. Craig: 

Culture in Theory vs. Practice:

Small Claims Training and

the Actual Speech Event

13.30-14.00

Bei Ju: Making Sense of WeChat

Vernacular Affordances

in Border Crossing

Kristine Muñoz: Teaching peace

in Medellín: A public school after

the peace accord

14.00-14.30

Chuyue Ou: Senior-younger address:

Cultural practice and socializing

among Chinese university students

Sally O. Hastings: Benefits of Ethnography

of Communication for Mental Health

Professionals

14:30-15:00

ILTAPÄIVÄKAHVIT, Metsätalo 5th floor lobby

15.00-16.30

Session 1b (Panel continues),

Metsätalo, Room 25

Session 3 (Race in class),

Metsätalo, Room 26

15.00-15.30

Dorji Wangchuk: Toasting to Deities

and Hungry Ghosts: A Cultural Discourse Analysis

of Social Drinking in Bhutan

Deanna L. Fassett & Tabitha Hart: 

“We cannot deny that this is a race issue”:

Blending the ethnography of communication

and critical communication pedagogy to

analyze a social drama on race

15.30-16.00

Todd L. Sandel: Saying “Good Ni:ight” in Bhutan:

Community Constructed Messages on WeChat

Michaela Winchatz, Evelyn Ho,

Saila Poutiainen & Leah Sprain:

“Don’t say that word out loud”: Testing the

boundaries of communicative competence,

discourse-centered pedagogy, and a ‘slur-once-removed’

18.00-21.00

CONFERENCE DINNER CRUISE

THURSDAY, 13 June 2019

10.00-12.00

Interdisciplinary Moves:

Media Ethnography and Ethnography of

Communication (Johanna Sumiala),

Metsätalo, Room 4

Chaim Noy: Museum ethnographies

of communication:

The media-audience-discourse nexus

Workshop: Digital humanities:

A broader reach for ethnography 

(Kristine Muñoz)

12.00-13.00

LUNCH at Hotel Arthur, Vuorikatu 19

13.00-14.30

Session 4 (Interdisciplinary understanding),

Metsätalo, Room 25

Session 5 (Interaction data),

Metsätalo, Room 26

13.00-13.30

Menno H. Reijven: Speech Codes

and Persuasion in an American Presidential Debate

Eileen Fung, Genevieve Leung & Evelyn Y. Ho: 

Making Soup, Talking Culture:

An Ethnography of Communication Among

Intergenerational Chinese Americans

13.30-14.00

James L. Leighter, Mary Ann Vinton

& John O'Keefe: The Grass Will Not

Lie to You: The Contribution of

Ethnography of Communication to

Socio-Ecological Modeling of the

Nebraska Sandhills

Leah Sprain: Climate discourses

in energy system transformation:

A cultural discourse analysis of

climate change language

14.00-14.30

Liene Ločmele: Interdisciplinary

understandings of the cultural discourse

of economic emigration in Latvia

Brion van Over: “Evaluator in Chief”:

The interactional making of Trump as the Boss

14.30-15.00

ILTAPÄIVÄKAHVIT,

Metsätalo 5th floor lobby

15.00-16.30

Session 6 (Identity),

Metsätalo, Room 25

Session 7 (Developing models),

Metsätalo, Room 26

15.00-15.30

Nadezhda Sotirova: “Why would you stay

in this pauper/peasant country?”:

Re-examining the rural/urban post-social

divide in migration discourses in Bulgaria

Menno H. Reijven: Speech Codes

as the Cultural Context of Membership

Categorization Devices

15.30-16.00

Sunny Lie: Asian American (AA)

Buddhist Identity Talk:

Natural criticism of Buddhism in the U.S. 

(Session will be conducted through Skype)

Daniel Chornet, Maija Gerlander

& Saila Poutiainen: A dialogic approach

to speech codes theory: An elaboration

on and method for proposition two.

16.00-16.30

Max Saito: Transformative Experience

in the Dining Hall of Kinhaven Junior Session

Gonen Dori-Hacohen & Bracah Nir: 

Using Hymes’s SPEAKING model for

analyzing Speech-Language Therapy:

Crossing from EoC to the Discipline of Communication Disorders

Optional sauna at Löyly (Hernesaarenranta 4)

FRIDAY, 14 June 2019

10.00-12.00

Panel discussion: Ethnography of Communication,

Folklore Studies, and Academic Power.

Metsätalo, Room 12

Participants: Pertti Anttonen, Kristine Muñoz,

Eija Stark and Karen Tracy.

12.00-13.00

LUNCH at Restaurant Sunn, Aleksanterinkatu 26

13.00-14.30

Invited closing words: Tamar Katriel,

Metsätalo, Room 12

Plans for the future

14.30-15.00

LÄHTÖKAHVIT, 

Metsätalo 3rd floor lobby

Optional Marimekko visit