Programme

ETHNOGRAPHY OF COMMUNICATION AND INTERDISCIPLINARY MOVES, 11-14 June, 2019 at the UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI, FINLAND

 

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 ArthurVuorikatu 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 ArthurVuorikatu 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