Programme

The opening ceremony will take place at the School of Education and Communication, Jönköping University, on Thursday 26 November at 1:00 pm.
Thursday 26 November
Time/Place | Activity | ||
|---|---|---|---|
1 pm | Opening Ceremony | ||
Welcoming by Stephan Rapp, Dean at School of Education and Communication | |||
Hb116 | |||
1:15 pm | Keynote speaker 1, | ||
Margit Krause-Ono, Muroran Institute of Technology: | |||
Introduced by Ylva Lindberg | |||
Myths, Mirroring, and Media - Changing ideologies and realities between and within Japan and Europe. | |||
Hb116 | |||
2:15 pm | Parallel sessions | ||
Session A, chairperson Anette Svensson | Session B, chairperson Helena Wistrand | ||
Ha108 | Hb117 | ||
Jens Allwood: Exploring National Images and Stereotypes | Gunilla Carstensen and Leif Dahlberg: Cross-cultural communication in Swedish courtroom | ||
Arvid Karsvall, Sarah Eldursi, Amanda von Matern, Tony Fang: Order and Openness in Virtual Teamwork | Steven Crawford: Three Projects, Three Pillars: Experiential Learning in a Multicultural Environment | ||
Elisabeth Ahlsén: Integrated Marketing Communication – Application in Tourism marketing - A Case Study of Cambodia Destination Marketing in Sweden | |||
3:45 pm | Swedish fika in Arkaden | ||
4:15 pm | Keynote speaker 2, | ||
Johan Larsson, Jönköping University: | |||
Introduced by Hannah Falk | |||
Intercultural negotiations | |||
Hb116 | |||
5:15 pm | Workshops & session | ||
Workshop 1 | Workshop 2 | ||
Ha108 | He207 | ||
Li Andersson-Yang, Jönköping University: | Ylva Lindberg, Jönköping University: | ||
| How social media reshape the patterns of intercultural communication - promoting Swedish higher education in China as an illustration | Researching cultures in Second Life | ||
7 pm | Mingle in Orangeriet | ||
With Johan Larsson |
Friday 27 November
| Time | Activity | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 am | Keynote speaker 3 | ||
| Dany Badran, Lebanese American University: | |||
| Introduced by Tommy Josefsson | |||
| Intercultural communication, conflict and crisis in Lebanon | |||
| Hb116 | |||
| 10 am | Coffee break in Arkaden | ||
| 10:30 am | Special sessions: | ||
| Cultural Transfer Part 1, chairperson Ylva Lindberg | Session B "The Rhetoric of Immigration: Labour, Integration and Exclusion", chairperson Jens Allwood | Session C, chairperson Iben Jensen | |
| Ha108 | Hb117 | Hc114 | |
| Special presenter: Adnan Mahmutovic, Stockholm University | Ruth Olga Björkenwall, Pamela Innes, Unnur Dís Skaptadóttir, Mira Skadegård Thorsen, Laura Assmuth: Labour, Integration and Exclusion | Mikael Jensen: Communicative purpose and style – a cultural comparison | |
| Muayyed J. Juma: The Americanization of Film Subtitles: A Sociocultural Linguistic Perspective to Subtitling Translation in the Arab World | Mira Skadegård Thorsen: Taking nationality hostage: Structural discrimination in immigration and integration discourses | CANCELLED André Leblanc: Should we tell the truth when tanking about the culture of the Other? The case of Amélie Nothomb | |
| Anette Svensson & Stefan Lundström: Worlds of many Languages: Learning from Fiction in Multimodal Text Universes | Pamela Innes: Where you learn matters: Laborers’ experiences learning Icelandic | Klas Borell: Dramatic Events, Fear and Prejudice: A New Approach to the Study of Islamophobia and Islamophobic Hate Crimes | |
| Ruth Olga Björkenwall: Assimilation failures?: Finnish laborers in Arctic Sweden | Øyvind Økland: Social media among young people in Kenya. Crossing ethnic borders | ||
| Unnur Dís Skaptadóttir: The changing discourses about immigrants in Iceland: Diversity, boundaries and borders | Gunnhild Aakervik: The new refugee wave and need for language training, communication skills inclusionwave and need for language training, communication skills inclusion | ||
| 1 pm | Lunch at Guvernören | ||
| 2:30 pm | Workshops & sessions | ||
| Cultural Transfer Part 2, chairperson Anette Svensson | Workshops 3 and 4: | Session C, chairperson Jens Allwood | |
| Ha108 | Hb117 | Hc114 | |
| Herbert Jonsson: What may be gained from mistranslations of Japanese haiku? | Thommy Josefsson, Jönköping University: | Elena Korshuk: Cross-cultural Communication in e-courses Via link | |
| Zlatan Filipovic: Passion for the other and the vicissitudes of shame | Intercultural Curriculum Development | ||
| Ylva Lindberg: The Place of African Sub-Saharan Francophone Literature in Sweden | Natalya Berbyuk Lindström via link from Bali | ||
| 2:30-5:00 pm | Entertainment in the HJ-auditorium | ||
| Burundi drumming and dancing | |||
| 4:30 pm | Coffe break in Arkaden | ||
| 5:00 pm | Keynote speaker 4, | ||
| Jonas Landgren, University of Gothenburg: | |||
| Introduced by Jens Allwood | |||
| Intercultural Crisis Communication | |||
| Hb116 | |||
| 6:00 pm | NIC Business Meeting | ||
| Ha 108 | |||
| Jens Allwood | |||
| 7 pm | Conference Dinner at Science Park | ||
| Only for those registered for the Conference Dinner |
Saturday 28 November
| Time | Activity | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 am | Keynote speaker 5, | ||
| Grégoire Njeijimana, Burundi University: | |||
| Introduced by Ylva Lindberg | |||
| Challenges in Intercultural Communication | |||
| Hb116 | |||
| 10 am | Coffee break in Arkaden | ||
| 10:30 am | Special sessions | ||
| Session A, chairperson Elisabeth Ahlsén | Session B, chairperson Arvid Karsvall | Session C, chairperson Tommy Josefsson | |
| Ha108 | Hb117 | Hc114 | |
| Arjan Arjuna Verdooren: Does the emperor need new clothes? - Dilemmas around essentialism in intercultural training | Maribel Blasco, Bjarne Ørsnes: Cultural resistance in language learning: Teaching the use of German Sie/Du to Danish CLIL -students | Klaus Geyer: Exploring linguistic landscapes in semi-public spaces: An inter-cultural project for students | |
| Ina-Lotte Dühring: Where do we go from here? Intercultural Competence in Germany’s Teacher Education | Mariya Aida Niendorf: Intercultural Communicative Competence: The challenges and implicatins of teaching Japanese politeness strategies to Swedish learners of Japanese | Iben Jensen: Rich on intercultural competence but poor in sharing - An analysis of an innovative project on cultural awareness in a public organisation | |
| Mikael Jensen & Linnea Moreira Emanuelsson: Kinesic code-switching among bi-culturals | Steven Elers: Māori (Indigenous) and Asian Immigration: The Potential for Intercultural Conflict in Aotearoa/New Zealand? | Pavel Rodin: Crisis communications on social media in cross-cultural setting: three levels of analysis | |
| Rami Marashli: Toward an Integrated Sweden? A study of the Syrians’ ambition of integration in Swedish society | Phoebe Elers: Insights from New Zealand Doctors: Can patient portal improve intercultural communication in the delivery of healthcare? | Jamshid Gholamian: Intercultural counseling – a dialogic approach | |
| Eilef Johan Gard: Intercultural Communication in a Higher Education Institution | Johnny Långstedt: Culture, an excuse? An explorative study of project manager’s accounts of intercultural encounters in international construction projects. | Christine Anthonissen: “These children, they will be angry.” Language as determining educational instrument for immigrant children | |
| 1 pm | Closing | ||
| Hb116 | |||
| Ylva Lindberg, Linda Bergqvist & Jens Allwood | |||
| 1:15 pm | Lunch | ||