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:
May, 2025, invited talk at the Centre for the Study of Conflict, Emotion and Social Justice, University of Bournemouth, U.K.
April, 2022, invited talk at International Workshop on Multimodal Understanding for the Web and Social Media". TheWebConf 2022. Lyon, France.
September, 2019, invited talk at the workshop “New Horizons in Cohesion Studies: Widening the Angle”. The Biennial International Conference on the Linguistics of Contemporary English (BICLCE) at the University of Bamberg, Germany.
January, 2019, invited talk on Stylistics and Film; Department of Film and Media, University of Helsinki, Finland.
October, 2018, invited talk on Narrative arts, prosocial messages and Emotion-centred communication, Arts and Prosocial Behaviour Research Group; Department of Aesthetics and Media Studies, University of Kent, U.K.
September 2018, invited talk in International Conference on Spatial Cognition, Rome, in the symposium of Mind, Movement and Moving Images.
March 2018, invited talk in the workshop of The Remediation of Education (REED), University of Stockholm, Sweden.
May 2015, invited talk on Cohesion in Film in the Research Center of Multimodal Communication, Odense, Denmark.
December 2013, invited talk on Measuring Cinemaitc Stylistics in Department of English seminar, Polytechnic University, Hong Kong