Programme

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

Topics linked to diversity, equity, and inclusion in research communication courses for doctoral students: A practitioner’s perspective  

- Adrienn Károly

Building Global Skills Systematically? Questioning the Potential of Joint Programmes 

- Birgit Kraus

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

"Will I Get Along with Others?" Intercultural Encounters and Relationship Building in Erasmus+ Blended Intensive Programmes 

- Romée Jager 

Language practices and a multilingual academic workplace: Towards shared language work and belonging? 

- Johanna Ennser-Kananen, Adrienn Károly, Lotta Kokkonen, Mélodine Sommier, Minttu Vänttinen

Intercultural communication in mental health counselling sessions: insights from migrant patients and interpreters in the Netherlands

- Julia Schmelzer

Towards a decolonial intercultural communication in forced migration contexts

- Eila Isotalus

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

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

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

Intercultural Communication – Some Reflections on the State of the Art 

- Jens Allwood

The Nationalism of Interculturalism: Reifying Culture in the European University Alliances? 

- Björn Kjellgren, Yoonjoo Cho

Heritage Language and Family Language Policy: Italian-French Families in Grenoble in the 21st Century 

- Roxanne Comotti

Journalistic Tactic and Intercultural Deficit: Post– publication Audience Engagement in a Finnish News Case Study

-Ilkhom Khalimzoda

“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

Planning and Enabling Intercultural Group Work in Engineering Education: Experiences Across Micro, Meso and Exo Levels 

- Becky Bergman

The Table and the Bed as Border Spaces. Studies in the Anthropology of Everyday Life

- Leszek Pułka

Beyond Western Models: News Avoidance and Media Trust in Egypt's Media System 

- Farah Ismail, Ahmed Taher

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

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

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

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

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

Food and Identity: Reflections on Heimat among Finnish-German, Finnish-Austrian, and Finnish-Swiss Second Generation Individuals 

- Claudia Sirpa Jeltsch

"This is not about me": Intercultural challenges and cultural biases in language teaching at universities 

- Julia Frisch

Language Decided, Particles Divided: A Case Study of Bilingual Particle Patterns 

- Paul Sbertoli-Nielsen, Dorothée Schulz-Budick

Driving or Stifling Evolution? – How Large Language Models Explain Interculturality and the Field of Intercultural Communication 

- Marko Siitonen

Blocking and Threading Analysis – Introducing a Method for Exploring Identity Construction Through Talk of Difference and Similarity 

- Karoliina Karppinen, Leena Mikkola, Malgorzata Lahti

International language policies concerning Portuguese and their local implications on foreign-language teaching 

- Iiris Rennicke, Renata Santos

Harmony in Diversity: Integrating Ikigai, Haikus, and Suno for Multicultural Teambuilding 

- Renate Link

Middle managers’ accounts of inclusive and multilingual communication practices in a globally dispersed organization 

- Lotta Kokkonen, Malgorzata Lahti, Sari Rajamäki

Can Icelanders use Danish as a key to understanding Swedish and Norwegian? 

- Þórhildur Oddsdóttir, Brynhildur Anna Ragnarsdóttir

A “Cultural Machine?” The AI-human “Intercultural” Butterfly Takes Flight 

- David Dalsky

Stories for Democracy: Challenging Prejudices and Stereotypes through Intercultural Communication 

- Sarah Ljungquist