Keynote and invited talks in international conferences and workshops
November, 2026, keynote talk at the 5th International Workshop on Multimodal Human Understanding for the Web and Social Media. The 34th ACM International Conference on Multimedia, 2026. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
September, 2025, keynote talk at the International Summer School on Haptics and Cognitive Robotics for Music (HAPCOR for Music), TU Dresden, Germany.
June 2018, Keynote talk, "Multimodal analysis in risk/benefit communication and narrative persuasion", at the International Symposium on Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis. University of Örebro, Sweden.
June 2017, Keynote talk, "Empirical studies of intermediality, discourse meaning and media materiality" at the 12th Nordic conference on Forum for Discourse Studies, LinnaenusUniversity, Centre for Intermedial and Multimodal Studies, Växjö, Sweden.
June 2009, keynote talk at the 3rd Finnish Symposium on Functional Linguistics and Multisemiotic Discourse Analysis, University of Helsinki, Finland. Theme: Analysing film and video from multisemiotic discourse perspectives. Title: "Multimodality in audiovisual narratives".
Selected Invited Talks:
October, 2026, invited talk at the DIGSUM Symposium on GENERATED/- TIVE FUTURES, Umeå, Sweden.
October, 2026, invited talk at BreGroMM: The Bremen-Groningen Online Workshops on Multimodality (video attached)
Topic: Multimodality and Experimental Approach
Abstract: A large body of multimodality research has proposed frameworks describing how meaning is constructed across different modes. Yet a lot of these proposals are established through close readings of examples and analysts’ own interpretations. This talk argues that experimental methods offer a way of turning descriptive multimodal categories into hypotheses -- hypotheses that can be tested against viewers’ and users’ actual behaviour and understanding. The question thus becomes an empirical one: do viewers really construe meaning in the way a multimodal discourse framework says they do?