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I'm sure most of you know that ICA will meet in Glasgow in 2027. Before and after Glasgow there are interesting meetings taking place in Helsinki. </div>
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In 24-27 May 2027 we are organizing <b>Explorations in Ethnography, Language and Communication Conference in Helsinki.</b> Yours truly is in organizing committee and our Leah Sprain (Univ of Colorado Boulder, USA) is one of the keynote speakers. Other keynotes
are Hanna-Máret Outakoski (Sámi University of Applied Sciences, Norway), Sari Pietikäinen (Univ of Jyväskylä, Finland) and Ben Rampton (King's College London, UK). The theme of the conference is "Language, Communication and Environments."</div>
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This is a bi-annual meeting of the Linguistic Ethnography Forum (LEF) which is a Special Interest Group of the British Association of Applied Linguistics. The webpage and the call for papers opens in August 2026, and the deadline for submission of abstracts
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<b>ICA takes place in Glasgow 3-7 June 2027. </b>There are direct flights to/from/to Helsinki/Edinburgh. By train, you would travel via Sweden, Denmark.. and from Paris to London to Edinburgh/Glasgow. I believe there is also a boat connection from the Netherlands
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And finally, <b>IPrA Conference takes place in Helsinki from 27 June to 2 July 2027.
</b>Call for papers below, DL 15 October 2026. </div>
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<b>Helsinki</b>, Finland, from <b>27 June to 2 July 2027</b>. </span></p>
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<i>- </i><span style="color: black;"><i>Deadline for</i></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; color: black;"> <b><i>panel proposals</i>:
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- <b><i>Contributions</i></b><i> to accepted panels</i>, and<i> submissions for </i>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">In addition to the<b><i> Presidential Address</i></b> (<b>Michael Haugh</b>) and the plenary lectures to be delivered by the recipients of</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">· the <b><i>John J. Gumperz Lifetime Achievement Award</i></b> and</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">· the <b><i>Innovation Award</i></b>,</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">the following plenary speakers are being scheduled (titles to be announced):</span></p>
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<b>Akin Odebunmi</b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" role="presentation"> (University of Ibadan, Nigeria)</span></li><li style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(11, 15, 18); margin: 0in 0in 6pt;">
<b>Fred Dervin </b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" role="presentation">(University of Helsinki, Finland)</span></li><li style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(11, 15, 18); margin: 0in 0in 6pt;">
<b>Maite Taboada</b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" role="presentation"> (Simon Fraser University, Canada)</span></li><li style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(11, 15, 18); margin: 0in 0in 6pt;">
<b>Michelle M. Lazar</b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" role="presentation"> (National University of Singapore, Singapore)</span></li><li style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(11, 15, 18); margin: 0in 0in 12pt;">
<b>Xinren Chen</b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" role="presentation"> (Nanjing University, China) </span></li></ul>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" role="presentation">Dr. <b>Minna Nevala</b>, Professor of English Language</span></li></ul>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" role="presentation">Dr. <b>Ylva Biri</b>, University Lecturer of English</span></li><li style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(11, 15, 18); margin: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" role="presentation"><b>Krista Leipivaara</b>, PhD student</span></li><li style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(11, 15, 18); margin: 0in 0in 12pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" role="presentation">Dr. <b>Hanna Limatius</b>, University Researcher of English,</span></li></ul>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Lucien Brown, Pilar Blitvich, Xinren Chen, Zoe Xi Chen, Jonathan Culpeper, César Félix-Brasdefer, Hartmut Haberland, Christiane Hohenstein, Cornelia Ilie, Dennis Kurzon, Ritva Laury, Miriam Locher, Melissa
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