(SISU, May 24)

8:30 Welcome address

Deans of Institute of Language Sciences

Keynotes 1&2, Chair: Qiang Geng

8:40 Kay O’Halloran (keynote) - Linguistics and Multimodal Studies in a Datafied World

9:20 David Machin (keynote) – Why digital administrative systems create extra work and demoralize us? A study of performativity and decontextualization caused by Unikum in Swedish preschools

10:00 Coffee & tea break (20 minutes)

Session 1: Datafication of knowledge, Chair: …

10:20 Zoe Hurley - Scattering and Gathering: The Digitization of Arab Women’s Knowledge

10:50 Wenting Zhao - Healthism in algorithmic knowledge: Media influencers’ curation of health advice for divergent consumer niches 

11:20 Lame Kenalemang – AI in beauty and cosmetics marketing 

11:50 Lunch break (1h10min)

Keynote 3, Chair: Wenting Zhao

13:00 Peter Mantello - The Aesthetic of Absence: Learning to Love your Disembodied AI Companion

Session 2: Relationality and Collective Intelligence. Chair: Hongying Xu

13:40 Natasa Lackovic – What is Meant by 'Relational' in Relational Approaches and Pedagogies in Higher Education: Socio-Techno-Material Connections of Knowledge and Identity

14:10 Cary Campbell - The symbolic grounding problem & the challenge of AI & collective intelligence: (post)digitisation and noospheric constraints

14:40 Tea & Coffee break (20 minutes)

Session 3: Digitalization and Corpus. Chair: Peter Mantello

15:00 Qiang Geng – Imagining China in international media consumer discourse: A big data-driven analysis

15:30 Hongying Xu – How do information values of nominal expressions interplay with thematic structures in English written texts?

16:00 Break (10 minutes)

Session 4: Language and translation in education. Chair: …

16:10 Hanyu Lei – Virtual Linguistic Landscapes and the Representation of Talent Cultivation Policies: What Do University Homepages Say?

16:40 Lily Zhang – Employing AI in English for Special Purposes in Shanghai Middle Schools 

17:10 Liqiu Zhang – Reflexive Translational Transcoding: Toward an Intercultural, Multimodal Paradigm for Digital Justice

17:40 Break (10 minutes)

Keynote 3, Chair: Alin Olteanu

17:50 Lesley Gourlay (online) - The un-digitalisation of education: Writing machines and the hand

18:30 – 19:00 Roundtable

19:00 Dinner