<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
<style type="text/css" style="display:none;"> P {margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;} </style>
</head>
<body dir="ltr">
<div style="text-align: center; text-indent: 0px; background-color: white; margin: 1em 0px; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;" class="elementToProof">
<b>Dear colleagues,</b></div>
<div style="text-align: center; text-indent: 0px; background-color: white; margin: 1em 0px; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;" class="elementToProof">
Registration is now available for 10 online talks on critical interculturality (April-May 2026):</div>
<div style="text-align: center; text-indent: 0px; background-color: white; margin: 1em 0px; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;" class="elementToProof">
<a style="margin: 0px;" data-linkindex="0" data-auth="NotApplicable" rel="noopener noreferrer" title="https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=ZtVnJUxgikCKYFXQ3J2da-suxUXMpCdNkZWCDUo955ZURU1OSEFLOFZTMjJNVEVNM0FSOUxVNEVSRS4u&origin=Reminder¶m=Form---1-0" class="OWAAutoLink" id="OWA355c0f79-9c6b-7277-25c9-29b09d177639" target="_blank" href="https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=ZtVnJUxgikCKYFXQ3J2da-suxUXMpCdNkZWCDUo955ZURU1OSEFLOFZTMjJNVEVNM0FSOUxVNEVSRS4u&origin=Reminder¶m=Form---1-0">https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=ZtVnJUxgikCKYFXQ3J2da-suxUXMpCdNkZWCDUo955ZURU1OSEFLOFZTMjJNVEVNM0FSOUxVNEVSRS4u&origin=Reminder¶m=Form---1-0</a></div>
<div style="text-align: center; text-indent: 0px; background-color: white; margin: 1em 0px; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;" class="elementToProof">
You can register until 26th March to receive the Zoom link.</div>
<div style="text-align: center; text-indent: 0px; background-color: white; margin: 1em 0px; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;" class="elementToProof">
<b>Please do not hesitate to spread the word!</b></div>
<div style="text-align: center; text-indent: 0px; background-color: white; margin: 1em 0px; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;" class="elementToProof">
<b>Warm regards,</b></div>
<div style="text-align: center; text-indent: 0px; background-color: white; margin: 1em 0px; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;" class="elementToProof">
<b>Fred Dervin</b></div>
<div style="text-align: center; text-indent: 0px; background-color: white; margin: 1em 0px; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;" class="elementToProof">
<b>---</b></div>
<div style="text-align: center; text-indent: 0px; background-color: white; margin: 1em 0px; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;" class="elementToProof">
<b>10 online talks on Critical Interculturality (April-May 2026)</b></div>
<div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; background-color: white; margin: 1em 0px; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;" class="elementToProof">
The TENSION research group (Faculty of Educational Sciences, University of Helsinki) and Routledge present a series of 10 international talks offering new perspectives on critical interculturality. Each session features an author from the Routledge book series
on interculturality edited by Fred Dervin <u>(<a style="margin: 0px;" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="1" rel="noopener noreferrer" title="https://www.routledge.com/New-Perspectives-on-Teaching-Interculturality/book-series/NPTI" class="OWAAutoLink" id="OWA6e57b089-2e6e-f881-5152-5bc53d8ecceb" target="_blank" href="https://www.routledge.com/New-Perspectives-on-Teaching-Interculturality/book-series/NPTI">https://www.routledge.com/New-Perspectives-on-Teaching-Interculturality/book-series/NPTI</a>),
</u>discussing their work. They will explore their book’s genesis, key findings and research challenges, focusing on how it provides new critical understandings of interculturality. These talks aim to showcase up-to-date and critical work on this complex notion.
Join us Thursdays between 16:00 and 17:00 Finnish Time (EET/EEST, UTC+2/UTC+3) in April-May 2026 for these insightful presentations, followed by a live Q&A with a global audience.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; background-color: white; margin: 1em 0px; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;" class="elementToProof">
<br>
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; background-color: white; margin: 1em 0px; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;" class="elementToProof">
<b>Schedule</b></div>
<div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; background-color: white; margin: 1em 0px; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;" class="elementToProof">
<b><br>
</b></div>
<div style="text-align: center; text-indent: 0px; background-color: white; margin: 1em 0px; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;" class="elementToProof">
<b>1. Thursday April 2 2026 (16:00-17:00 Finnish Time; EET/EEST, UTC+2/UTC+3)</b></div>
<div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; background-color: white; margin: 1em 0px; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;" class="elementToProof">
Rob<b>yn Moloney</b></div>
<div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; background-color: white; margin: 1em 0px; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;" class="elementToProof">
<i>Intercultural Communication: A Personal Approach</i></div>
<div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; background-color: white; margin: 1em 0px; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;" class="elementToProof">
I introduce a new user-friendly textbook “<i>Intercultural Communication: A Personal Approach”
</i>designed for international teaching across disciplines. Through responding to Encounters (interview transcripts) with 30 individuals, the reader critically engages with lived experience of intercultural communication in diverse workplaces.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; background-color: white; margin: 1em 0px; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;" class="elementToProof">
Robyn Moloney is an experienced and committed teacher, teacher educator, and writer in intercultural education.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; background-color: white; margin: 1em 0px; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;" class="elementToProof">
<br>
</div>
<div style="text-align: center; text-indent: 0px; background-color: white; margin: 1em 0px; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;" class="elementToProof">
<b>2. Thursday April 9 2026 (16:00-17:00 Finnish Time; EET/EEST, UTC+2/UTC+3)</b></div>
<div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; background-color: white; margin: 1em 0px; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;" class="elementToProof">
<b>Mélodine Sommier, Anssi Roiha & Malgorzata Lahti</b></div>
<div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; background-color: white; margin: 1em 0px; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;" class="elementToProof">
<i>Interculturality in Higher Education</i></div>
<div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; background-color: white; margin: 1em 0px; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;" class="elementToProof">
In this talk, we will present examples from different educational contexts and disciplines that illustrate how to move away from essential traps and implement critical intercultural education in higher education.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; background-color: white; margin: 1em 0px; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;" class="elementToProof">
Dr. Mélodine Sommier currently works as an Academy Research Fellow at the University of Jyväskylä (Finland).</div>
<div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; background-color: white; margin: 1em 0px; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;" class="elementToProof">
Dr. Anssi Roiha works as a University Lecturer in special education at the Department of Education at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. </div>
<div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; background-color: white; margin: 1em 0px; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;" class="elementToProof">
Dr. Malgorzata Lahti works as a Senior Lecturer in communication at the Department of Language and Communication Studies at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. </div>
<div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; background-color: white; margin: 1em 0px; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;" class="elementToProof">
<br>
</div>
<div style="text-align: center; text-indent: 0px; background-color: white; margin: 1em 0px; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;" class="elementToProof">
<b>3. Thursday April 16 2026 (16:00-17:00 Finnish Time; EET/EEST, UTC+2/UTC+3)</b></div>
<div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; background-color: white; margin: 1em 0px; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;" class="elementToProof">
<b>Deborah Darling</b></div>
<div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; background-color: white; margin: 1em 0px; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;" class="elementToProof">
<i>Plurilingual and Intercultural Pedagogy for All in Higher Education</i></div>
<div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; background-color: white; margin: 1em 0px; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;" class="elementToProof">
International higher education is evermore converging on instruction in a limited number of languages. Sharing a language has multiple benefits but also comes at the expense of delegitimising other languages in higher education. This presentation outlines the
rationale and framework for a plurilingual approach for English-Medium Instruction lecturers.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; background-color: white; margin: 1em 0px; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;" class="elementToProof">
Debbie Darling is Senior Lecturer in Applied Linguistics at Queen Mary, University of London.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; background-color: white; margin: 1em 0px; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;" class="elementToProof">
<br>
</div>
<div style="text-align: center; text-indent: 0px; background-color: white; margin: 1em 0px; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;" class="elementToProof">
<b>4. Thursday April 23 2026 (16:00-17:00 Finnish Time; EET/EEST, UTC+2/UTC+3)</b></div>
<div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; background-color: white; margin: 1em 0px; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;" class="elementToProof">
<b>Vander Tavares</b></div>
<div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; background-color: white; margin: 1em 0px; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;" class="elementToProof">
<i>Researching Interculturality in Post-Colonial Contexts: Indigenous Perspectives and Beyond </i></div>
<div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; background-color: white; margin: 1em 0px; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;" class="elementToProof">
In this talk, I will focus on the place of (primarily) Indigenous perspectives and experiences in post-colonial educational contexts and what these perspectives and experiences help to reveal about interculturality both conceptually and pedagogically. Considering
the Eurocentric character of interculturality, this talk centers <i>Researching Interculturality in Post-Colonial Contexts: Indigenous Perspectives and Beyond
</i>in order to offer a decolonial critique of the field.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; background-color: white; margin: 1em 0px; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;" class="elementToProof">
Vander Tavares is a multidisciplinary scholar working within and across language, teacher, and higher education. He is currently an Associate Professor of Education at the University of Inland Norway.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; background-color: white; margin: 1em 0px; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;" class="elementToProof">
<br>
</div>
<div style="text-align: center; text-indent: 0px; background-color: white; margin: 1em 0px; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;" class="elementToProof">
<b>5. Thursday 30 April 2026 (16:00-17:00 Finnish Time; EET/EEST, UTC+2/UTC+3)</b></div>
<div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; background-color: white; margin: 1em 0px; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;" class="elementToProof">
<b>Wisam Kh. Abdul-Jabbar</b></div>
<div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; background-color: white; margin: 1em 0px; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;" class="elementToProof">
<i>Teaching Interculturally in Qatar</i></div>
<div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; background-color: white; margin: 1em 0px; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;" class="elementToProof">
This book explores the teaching of intercultural communication in Qatar. It concentrates on local epistemologies and ethical practices that influence curricula across schools and universities. It advocates for cross-cultural pedagogies, examines verbal and
nonverbal interactions, identity, media, and language learning. It addresses teaching culture, citizenship, interfaith dialogue, and internationalization, and offers models for intercultural competence, translation, and social reform in education.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; background-color: white; margin: 1em 0px; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;" class="elementToProof">
Wisam Kh. Abdul‑Jabbar<b> </b>is currently an assistant professor and assistant dean at Hamad Bin Khalifa University in Qatar. His work aims to bridge cultural and philosophical perspectives to resolve conflict and enhance educational practices and policies. </div>
<div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; background-color: white; margin: 1em 0px; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;" class="elementToProof">
<br>
</div>
<div style="text-align: center; text-indent: 0px; background-color: white; margin: 1em 0px; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;" class="elementToProof">
<b>6. Thursday May 7 2026 (16:00-17:00 Finnish Time; EET/EEST, UTC+2/UTC+3)</b></div>
<div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; background-color: white; margin: 1em 0px; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;" class="elementToProof">
<b>Wei Liu</b></div>
<div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; background-color: white; margin: 1em 0px; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;" class="elementToProof">
<i>The Lebowski Shock: Deconstructing Normative Intercultural Paradigms</i></div>
<div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; background-color: white; margin: 1em 0px; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;" class="elementToProof">
This talk will introduce “Lebowski Shock” as a new concept in intercultural communication to complement and contrast with Culture Shock. The talk will also share the four design features of Lebowski Shock which will help deconstruct normative intercultural
paradigms.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; background-color: white; margin: 1em 0px; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;" class="elementToProof">
<br>
Wei Liu, PhD, is a scholar administrator in international higher education at the University of Alberta, Canada.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; background-color: white; margin: 1em 0px; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;" class="elementToProof">
<br>
</div>
<div style="text-align: center; text-indent: 0px; background-color: white; margin: 1em 0px; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;" class="elementToProof">
<b>7. Thursday May 14 2026 (16:00-17:00 Finnish Time; EET/EEST, UTC+2/UTC+3)</b></div>
<div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; background-color: white; margin: 1em 0px; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;" class="elementToProof">
<b>Fred Dervin & Jun Peng</b></div>
<div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; background-color: white; margin: 1em 0px; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;" class="elementToProof">
<i>Interculturality Online: Ideological Constructions and Considerations for Higher Education</i></div>
<div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; background-color: white; margin: 1em 0px; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;" class="elementToProof">
Why do we overlook ideology in online intercultural communication education and research? We explore how students and teachers worldwide experience virtual exchanges. Using concrete examples, we critically examine the ideologies shaping these digital encounters
and propose a more equitable and reflexive approach to ‘doing’ interculturality online in higher education.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; background-color: white; margin: 1em 0px; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;" class="elementToProof">
Fred Dervin is Professor of Multicultural Education at the University of Helsinki, Finland. Over a career of 25 years, Dervin has made substantial contributions to global scholarship on interculturality.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; background-color: white; margin: 1em 0px; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;" class="elementToProof">
Jun Peng is a PhD researcher at the University of Helsinki, Finland. Her research focuses on interculturality in education, online intercultural interactions and foreign language education.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; background-color: white; margin: 1em 0px; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;" class="elementToProof">
<br>
</div>
<div style="text-align: center; text-indent: 0px; background-color: white; margin: 1em 0px; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;" class="elementToProof">
<b>8. Thursday May 21 2026 (16:00-17:00 Finnish Time; EET/EEST, UTC+2/UTC+3)</b></div>
<div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; background-color: white; margin: 1em 0px; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;" class="elementToProof">
<b>Julie Byrd Clark</b></div>
<div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; background-color: white; margin: 1em 0px; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;" class="elementToProof">
<i>Ecointerculturality: Communing with the more-than-human world</i></div>
<div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; background-color: white; margin: 1em 0px; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;" class="elementToProof">
In this talk, I present <i>Ecointerculturality, </i>an original contribution which seeks to engage new and ancient ways of communicating referred to as ecotranslanguaging. In doing so, my presentation underscores voices and works that have been largely ignored
in intercultural communication education and research, namely the more-than-human world.<b> </b></div>
<div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; background-color: white; margin: 1em 0px; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;" class="elementToProof">
Julie S. Byrd (aka Byrd Clark) is Professor of Critical Language, Intercultural, and Indigenous Education at Western University, Canada.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; background-color: white; margin: 1em 0px; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;" class="elementToProof">
<br>
</div>
<div style="text-align: center; text-indent: 0px; background-color: white; margin: 1em 0px; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;" class="elementToProof">
<b>9. Thursday May 28 2026 (16:00-17:00 Finnish Time; EET/EEST, UTC+2/UTC+3)</b></div>
<div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; background-color: white; margin: 1em 0px; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;" class="elementToProof">
<b>Ning Chen</b></div>
<div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; background-color: white; margin: 1em 0px; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;" class="elementToProof">
<i>Intercultural Preparation in Higher Education</i></div>
<div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; background-color: white; margin: 1em 0px; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;" class="elementToProof">
In my talk, I critique simplistic intercultural preparation in higher education. Drawing from data collected in China and Finland, I advocate for reflective, context-sensitive and intersectional approaches that address power dynamics and linguistic diversity
in global engagements.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; background-color: white; margin: 1em 0px; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;" class="elementToProof">
Dr Ning Chen is Lecturer at Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts and Visiting Researcher at the University of Helsinki. </div>
<div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; background-color: white; margin: 1em 0px; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;" class="elementToProof">
<br>
</div>
<div style="text-align: center; text-indent: 0px; background-color: white; margin: 1em 0px; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;" class="elementToProof">
<b>10. Thursday June 4 2026 (16:00-17:00 Finnish Time; EET/EEST, UTC+2/UTC+3)</b></div>
<div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; background-color: white; margin: 1em 0px; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;" class="elementToProof">
Lian Sun, Taylor & Francis-Routledge, Fred Dervin, University of Helsinki, Finland (editor-in-chief); Marina Alonso Bolaños, Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Mexico; Julie Byrd Clark, Western University, Canada; Patrick A. Danaher, University
of Southern Queensland, Australia; Daniel Fried, University of Alberta, Canada; Shaun O’Dwyer, Kyushu University, Japan; Aziz Qaissi, Mohammed VI Polytechnic University, Morocco; Elatiana Razafi, University of New Caledonia; Vander Tavares, University of Inland
Norway, Norway; Zhongfeng Tian (田中锋), Rutgers University-Newark, USA.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; background-color: white; margin: 1em 0px; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;" class="elementToProof">
<i>Global Voices: Translating Research to Decolonise</i></div>
<div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; background-color: white; margin: 1em 0px; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;" class="elementToProof">
This session introduces the new Routledge series, <i>Global Voices</i>, which champions a plurilingual and intercultural vision for global scholarship. By translating key works into English, the series aims to liberate important ideas, diversifying international
conversations. Editorial Board members will join this session to discuss the role of language and translation in decolonising knowledge and academic practices.</div>
<div style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
<br>
</div>
<div style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="elementToProof">
<br>
</div>
<div class="elementToProof" id="Signature">
<p style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; line-height: 1.5; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px;" class="elementToProof">
<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; color: black;">---</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; line-height: 1.5; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px;" class="elementToProof">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black;"> </span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; line-height: 1.5; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px;" class="elementToProof">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black;"><b> Fred Dervin </b></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; line-height: 1.5; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px;" class="elementToProof">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black;"> Professor of multicultural education</span></p>
<div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px;" class="elementToProof">
<table style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; line-height: 1.5; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px;">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; line-height: 1.5; border-width: 1pt; border-style: solid; border-color: white; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; width: 162.65pt; height: 99px;">
<p style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; line-height: 1.5; background-color: white; margin: 0px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="elementToProof">
<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black;">Kasvatustieteellinen tiedekunta, </span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; line-height: 1.5; background-color: white; margin: 0px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="elementToProof">
<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black;">PL 9 (Siltavuorenpenger 3 A 328),</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="elementToProof">
<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black;"><u>00014</u> Helsingin yliopisto </span></p>
</td>
<td style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; line-height: 1.5; border-top: 1pt solid white; border-right: 1pt solid white; border-bottom: 1pt solid white; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; width: 127.55pt; height: 99px;">
<p style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="elementToProof">
<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black;">Pedagogiska fakulteten, </span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="elementToProof">
<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black;">PB 9,<u>00014</u></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="elementToProof">
<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black;">Helsingfors Universitet </span></p>
</td>
<td style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; line-height: 1.5; border-top: 1pt solid white; border-right: 1pt solid white; border-bottom: 1pt solid white; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; width: 191.2pt; height: 99px;">
<p style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="elementToProof">
<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black;">Faculty of Educational Sciences, </span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="elementToProof">
<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black;">P.O. Box 9,<u>00014</u></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="elementToProof">
<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black;">University of Helsinki</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</div>
<p style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; line-height: 1.5; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px;" class="elementToProof">
<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black;"><b> </b></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; line-height: 1.5; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px;" class="elementToProof">
<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(33, 37, 41); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);"><b>Included in the Stanford Elsevier Top 2% Scientists List of the world’s best scientists </b></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; line-height: 1.5; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px;" class="elementToProof">
<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black;"><b><br>
</b></span></p>
<div style="direction: ltr; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(43, 43, 43);" class="elementToProof">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.25pt; background-color: white; line-height: 1.5;"><b>Book series:</b></span></div>
<ul style="direction: ltr; text-align: justify; margin: 0px; background-color: white;">
<li style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); direction: ltr; text-indent: 0px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 5.25pt 0px 10.5pt;">
<span role="presentation" style="letter-spacing: 0.25pt; line-height: 1.5;"><b>New Perspectives on Teaching Interculturality</b> (Routledge):
<a style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0px;" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="x_x_x_OWAAutoLink" id="OWA5c5cb9b4-37ab-08de-504e-f07565260f14" target="_blank" href="https://www.routledge.com/New-Perspectives-on-Teaching-Interculturality/book-series/NPTI">
https://www.routledge.com/New-Perspectives-on-Teaching-Interculturality/book-series/NPTI</a><br>
</span></li><li style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); direction: ltr; text-indent: 0px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 5.25pt 0px 10.5pt;">
<div style="margin: 0px;" role="presentation" class="elementToProof"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.25pt; line-height: 1.5;"><b>Palgrave Studies on Chinese Education in a Global Perspective</b> (Palgrave) (with Chen & Xu)</span><span style="line-height: 1.5;">:
<u><a style="margin: 0px;" class="OWAAutoLink" id="OWAdb04bceb-a994-9ebc-b176-e2be8280bde0" href="https://link.springer.com/series/14568">https://link.springer.com/series/14568</a></u></span></div>
</li><li style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); direction: ltr; text-indent: 0px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 5.25pt 0px 10.5pt;">
<div style="margin: 0px;" role="presentation" class="elementToProof"><span style="line-height: normal;"><b>Encounters Between East and West. Intercultural Perspectives
</b>(Springer) <u><a style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0px;" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="x_x_x_OWAAutoLink" id="OWAafc8971e-6ca5-dec7-292a-efe14567b07b" target="_blank" href="https://www.springer.com/series/13823">https://www.springer.com/series/13823</a></u></span></div>
</li><li style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal;">
<div style="margin: 0px;" role="presentation" class="elementToProof"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: normal;"><b>Southern Studies in Education (SSE)</b> (Routledge) (with R'boul & Barnawi)
<a style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0px;" class="x_x_x_OWAAutoLink" id="OWA49017cc0-99de-9539-0053-61bb8de5cc5e" href="https://www.routledge.com/Southern-Studies-in-Education/book-series/SSE">
https://www.routledge.com/Southern-Studies-in-Education/book-series/SSE</a></span></div>
</li></ul>
<div style="direction: ltr; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);" class="elementToProof">
<b><br>
</b></div>
<p style="direction: ltr; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; line-height: 1.5; background-color: white; margin: 0px 0px 5.25pt;" class="elementToProof">
<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black;"><b>Books:</b></span></p>
<ul style="direction: ltr; text-align: justify; margin: 0px; background-color: white; flex-direction: column; display: flex;">
<li style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
<div style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px;" role="presentation" class="elementToProof">
<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Fred Dervin (2025). <b><i>AI for Critical Interculturality</i>.
</b>Routledge. <a class="OWAAutoLink" id="OWAbe798a69-137d-20ae-c1c1-d2ce6cc7e824" href="https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/10.4324/9781003661849/ai-critical-interculturality-fred-dervin?context=ubx&refId=70e8dc01-e6f2-4e2c-9b83-73f651e9b645">
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/10.4324/9781003661849/ai-critical-interculturality-fred-dervin?context=ubx&refId=70e8dc01-e6f2-4e2c-9b83-73f651e9b645</a></span></div>
</li><li style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
<div style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px;" role="presentation" class="elementToProof">
<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Fred Dervin & Hamza R'boul (eds.) (2025).
</span><b><i>An Introduction to AI and Intercultural Communication Education.</i></b> Routledge.
<a style="margin: 0px;" class="OWAAutoLink" id="OWA5f2841f9-c82a-5064-354b-7bbe71375402" href="https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/10.4324/9781003675983/introduction-ai-intercultural-communication-education-fred-dervin-hamza-boul?context=ubx&refId=ef0c1c85-5950-49bf-8ded-e99232a01f6b">
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/10.4324/9781003675983/introduction-ai-intercultural-communication-education-fred-dervin-hamza-boul?context=ubx&refId=ef0c1c85-5950-49bf-8ded-e99232a01f6b</a></div>
</li><li style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
<div style="direction: ltr; margin: 0px;" role="presentation" class="elementToProof">
<span style="line-height: 1.5;">Fred Dervin & H. R'boul (eds.) (2025). <b><i>Lingua Ex Machina. AI, Multilingualism and Interculturality. Routledge</i>.
</b><a style="margin: 0px;" class="OWAAutoLink" id="OWA4c42de6e-503f-a3ed-ebe7-340f091859b4" href="https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/10.4324/9781003684411/lingua-ex-machina-fred-dervin-hamza-boul?context=ubx&refId=e7eb0580-656a-4285-beaa-4a26f28957b5">https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/10.4324/9781003684411/lingua-ex-machina-fred-dervin-hamza-boul?context=ubx&refId=e7eb0580-656a-4285-beaa-4a26f28957b5</a></span></div>
</li><li style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
<div style="direction: ltr; margin: 0px;" role="presentation" class="elementToProof">
Fred Dervin (2025). <b><i>Money and Interculturality: A Theory</i></b>. Routledge.
<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a class="OWAAutoLink" id="OWA3ef60f66-9940-b0fa-47be-65c6e2973634" href="https://www.taylorfrancis.com/reader/download/cfca94f0-cc27-4c08-b973-d27396a16d36/book/pdf?context=ubx">https://www.taylorfrancis.com/reader/download/cfca94f0-cc27-4c08-b973-d27396a16d36/book/pdf?context=ubx</a> </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">OPEN
ACCESS!</span></div>
</li><li style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); direction: ltr; align-self: start; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px;">
<div style="direction: ltr; margin: 0px;" role="presentation" class="elementToProof">
<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Fred Dervin (2025). <b><i>Intercultural Self-defence. A Resource Book for Students, Teachers and Researchers.</i></b> Routledge.
<a class="OWAAutoLink" id="OWA9a3a9913-3a16-0c82-4701-903885a79b05" href="https://www.routledge.com/Intercultural-Self-Defence-A-Resource-Book-for-Students-Teachers-and-Researchers/Dervin/p/book/9781032998954">
https://www.routledge.com/Intercultural-Self-Defence-A-Resource-Book-for-Students-Teachers-and-Researchers/Dervin/p/book/9781032998954</a></span></div>
</li></ul>
<div style="direction: ltr; text-align: left; margin: 0px; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="elementToProof">
<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br>
</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="elementToProof">
<b>Forthcoming:</b></div>
<ul style="direction: ltr; text-align: justify; margin: 0px; background-color: white;">
<li style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
<p style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;" role="presentation" class="elementToProof">
<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Fred Dervin (2026). </span><span style="font-family: Times; color: black; background-color: white;"><b><i>Myth as Disorientation for Critical Intercultural Pedagogy.
</i></b></span><span style="font-family: Times; color: black;"><b><i>From the Kalevala to the Realm of (Digital) Imagination.
</i></b></span>Routledge. <a style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="OWAAutoLink" id="OWA840da4be-1ad2-d883-3e45-eb4c9ab3f40d" href="https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/10.4324/9781003728276/myth-disorientation-critical-intercultural-pedagogy-fred-dervin?context=ubx&refId=c5f9ecc5-535a-4998-9308-02d9307d7bbf">
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/10.4324/9781003728276/myth-disorientation-critical-intercultural-pedagogy-fred-dervin?context=ubx&refId=c5f9ecc5-535a-4998-9308-02d9307d7bbf</a></p>
</li><li style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
<div style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px;" role="presentation" class="elementToProof">
<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Fred Dervin (2026). <b><i>Interculturality in Flux. Theories of Change and Continuity</i></b>. Routledge.
<a class="OWAAutoLink" id="OWA1b5c29b7-758b-176f-a164-8c2f5380ea31" href="https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/10.4324/9781003711759/interculturality-flux-fred-dervin?context=ubx&refId=dd90c496-750c-44f6-a204-3ca3dc5a4f4f">
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/10.4324/9781003711759/interculturality-flux-fred-dervin?context=ubx&refId=dd90c496-750c-44f6-a204-3ca3dc5a4f4f</a></span></div>
</li></ul>
<div style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="elementToProof">
<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></span></div>
</div>
</body>
</html>