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11:00 Registration opens
12:30 Welcome
13:00–14:00 Keynote: Intercultural ethics and intercultural dialogue in the age of AI - Professor Giuliana Ferri, University College London
14:00–14:30 Coffee Break
14:30–16:00 Session 1:
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Session 1.1 Language education |
Session 1.2 Migration and workplace |
Session 1.3 Diversity and inclusion |
Session 1.4 Ai |
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| 14:30 |
Language Education and Inclusion: Insights from Italian University Language Centers and Students’ Perspectives - Anna Maria De Bartolo, Vanessa Marcella |
Turkish immigrant entrepreneurship and intercultural communication - Findings from a systematic literature review - Serol Karalar, Daniela Gröschke |
Language practices and a multilingual academic workplace: Towards shared language work and belonging? - Johanna Ennser-Kananen, Adrienn Károly, Lotta Kokkonen, Mélodine Sommier, Minttu Vänttinen |
Driving or Stifling Evolution? – How Large Language Models Explain Interculturality and the Field of Intercultural Communication - Marko Siitonen |
| 15:00 |
Exploring the Role of Virtual Reality in Language Learning through Simulated Classrooms and AI Chatbots: Enhancing Multilingual Identity and Intercultural Competence in Finnish Secondary Schools - Avishan Keshavarz |
Qualification matched employement: a intercultural communication perspective - Annelise Ly |
The Corporate Closet: How Queer Professionals Disclose Their Identity and Come Out at Work -Mark O'Neill, Irina Lock, Anna Berbers |
Harmony in Diversity: Integrating Ikigai, Haikus, and Suno for Multicultural Teambuilding - Renate Link |
| 15:30 |
Improving intercultural communication between migrant patients and mental health care providers in the Netherlands: An evidence-based communication intervention - Julia Schmelzer, Houda Al-Kalaf, Christopher Jenks |
Topics linked to diversity, equity, and inclusion in research communication courses for doctoral students: A practitioner’s perspective - Adrienn Károly |
16:00–16:15 Break
16:15–17:45 Session 2:
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SESSION 2.1 Organizational culture |
SESSION 2.2 Culture and Interpersonal communication |
SESSION 2.3 Internationalization in higher education |
SESSION 2.4 Trust and politics |
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| 16:15 |
Digital Transformation and DEI in Japanese Business: Insights from Top and Middle Managers in IT companies -Akiko Asai, Kiyoshi Hori, Jonna Koponen, Lotta Salin, Saara Julkunen |
Cultural Differences in Request Refusal: A Comparative Study of Chinese and Italian Communication Patterns - Gong, L. & Busà, M.G. |
Braving the Unknown: Building Resilience for International Students' Academic and Intercultural Adaptation Journey - Pranjali Kirloskar Deshmukh |
How institutional (dis)trust shapes professional cross-cultural interaction. Case-in-point - Ukraine. - Maryna Starodubska |
| 16:45 |
Performative DEI Pedagogy: Theory and Practice for DEI in Organizations - Gian-Louis Hernandez |
Negotiating Politeness: Migrants as Agents of Cultural Transfer - Laima Nevinskaitė |
Navigating the intercultural in internationalising universities: Taken for granted assumptions and complexities - Jianwei Xu |
Clash of discourses on Bāyazīd Bastāmī’s tomb: economic inclusion or political exclusion - Maryam Ayad |
| 17:15 |
Language management in cross-national online teams: How participants manage language choice at the interactional level - Kaisa S. Pietikäinen |
Relational dialectics of intercultural friendships in the SuomiKamu volunteer training by the Finnish Red Cross - Mira Kotamäki, Saila Poutiainen |
Evolving Visual Narratives of Migration: A Comparative Study of Polish Media during the 2015 and 2022 “Migration Crises” -Patrycja Rozbicka, Aleksandra Matyja |
Intercultural (In)Justice in Authoritarian Contexts: Analyzing Asymmetric Bilingualism in Lukashenko’s Speeches - Anna Skibińska, Andrei Turko |
18:00–19:30 University of Helsinki Reception
10:00–12:00 Session 3:
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Session 3.1 What counts as culture |
session 3.2 mobility 1 |
session 3.3 Migration and family |
session 3.4 Media responses |
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| 10:00 |
Intercultural Communication – Some Reflections on the State of the Art - Jens Allwood
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The Nationalism of Interculturalism: Reifying Culture in the European University Alliances? - Björn Kjellgren, Yoonjoo Cho |
Food and Identity: Reflections on Heimat among Finnish-German, Finnish-Austrian, and Finnish-Swiss Second Generation Individuals - Claudia Sirpa Jeltsch |
“The trees can take care of themselves": The role of cultural myths in negotiating environmental action within Latvian media discourse - Liene Ločmele, Barbara Ruth Burke, Nadezhda Sotirova |
| 10:30 |
A “Cultural Machine?” The AI-human “Intercultural” Butterfly Takes Flight - David Dalsky |
Planning and Enabling Intercultural Group Work in Engineering Education: Experiences Across Micro, Meso and Exo Levels - Becky Bergman |
Heritage Language and Family Language Policy: Italian-French Families in Grenoble in the 21st Century - Roxanne Comotti |
Beyond Western Models: News Avoidance and Media Trust in Egypt's Media System - Farah Ismail, Ahmed Taher |
| 11:00 |
Sound in Common - Julian Day |
“It's like really like hardcore student food”: Orientations to locality and local meanings of food in a virtual exchange project - Margarethe Olbertz-Siitonen, Malgorzata Lahti |
Everything inside the house... is my job. But outside the house, it's his job.’ Thai migrant women’s conceptualization of housework, mental load and power – a story of a relentless to-do list? - Szonja Zoltanfi |
Countering the LVU Disinformation Campaign: Strategies and Responses from Swedish Media and Authorities - Mahitab Ezz El Din, Andreas Jahrehorn Önnerfors, Emma Ricknell |
| 11:30 |
Understanding risk cultures for citizen-centered crisis communications: The case of Sweden - Pavel Rodin |
Chinese international students’ time and space experiences in a UK university - Xian Zhao |
Negotiating Language in Family Texts: Case-study of Transnational Families in Finland - Gali Bloch |
Faith, Friction, and the Feed: A Discursive Analysis of Religious Intolerance on Social Media - Shomaila Sadaf, Marko Siitonen |
12:00–13:30 Lunch
13:30–14:30 Keynote: Educating Intercultural Citizens in Times of Crisis - Associate professor Hanne Tange, Aalborg University
14:30–15:00 Coffee Break
15:00–16:30 Session 4:
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Session 4.1 Effective intercultural work |
session 4.2 Pedagogy |
Session 4.3 concepts |
SESSION 4.4 INTERACTION IN LEARNING |
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| 15:00 |
Intercultural Leadership Communication - How female managers effectively communicate in an intercultural working environment - Angela Warkentin |
Teaching and Learning Intercultural Skills: An Interactive, AI-Supported Didactic Model for Developing Cross-Cultural Competence - Joachim Liedtke |
The role of Intercultural Communication for migration and international relations in times of increasing xenophobia and polarization - Elisabeth Ahlsén |
Navigating Consensus and Difference: Identity Construction in Virtual Exchange through Stance-Taking - Mahnaz Shirdel, Marko Siitonen |
| 15:30 |
Communicate first, trust later? Rethinking a crucial (but often overlooked) intercultural partial competence - Tina Paul |
Culture in foreign language textbooks. A Comparative Longitudinal Study - Iwona Kowal |
Breathing new life to the concept of adaptation: emotions and places - Jolanta A. Drzewiecka |
Beyond the Pages: Interculturality in our Book Club - Ines Nikšić |
| 16:00 |
The Importance of Intercultural Communication in Project Management – Perception according to Company Size and Type - Marwa Rahman |
Reaching Level C Proficiency of Latvian – Opportunities and Challenges - Iveta Grīnberga, Inga Laizāne, Inta Urbanoviča, Sigita Kušnere, Gunta Kļava, Andra Kalnača, Oskars Otomers |
"This is not about me": Intercultural challenges and cultural biases in language teaching at universities - Julia Frisch |
16:30–17:30 NIC Business Meeting
18:45 Conference Dinner on a Cruise Boat (separate registration)
09:00–10:30 Session 5:
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Session 5.1 Language usage and learning |
Session 5.2 Mobility 2 |
Session 5.3 trying new methods |
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| 09:00 |
Language Decided, Particles Divided: A Case Study of Bilingual Particle Patterns - Paul Sbertoli-Nielsen, Dorothée Schulz-Budick |
Building Global Skills Systematically? Questioning the Potential of Joint Programmes - Birgit Kraus |
Blocking and Threading Analysis – Introducing a Method for Exploring Identity Construction Through Talk of Difference and Similarity - Karoliina Karppinen, Leena Mikkola, Malgorzata Lahti |
| 09:30 |
International language policies concerning Portuguese and their local implications on foreign-language teaching - Iiris Rennicke, Renata Santos |
"Will I Get Along with Others?" Intercultural Encounters and Relationship Building in Erasmus+ Blended Intensive Programmes - Romée Jager |
Middle managers’ accounts of inclusive and multilingual communication practices in a globally dispersed organization - Lotta Kokkonen, Malgorzata Lahti, Sari Rajamäki |
| 10:00 |
Can Icelanders use Danish as a key to understanding Swedish and Norwegian? - Þórhildur Oddsdóttir, Brynhildur Anna Ragnarsdóttir |
Stories for Democracy: Challenging Prejudices and Stereotypes through Intercultural Communication - Sarah Ljungquis |
10:30–10:45 Break
10:45–12:00 Panel Discussion: Relevant Concepts and Methods for Future Research in the Field of Intercultural Communication. Including final words.
12:00 Lunch