VAKKI ry has arranged the annual VAKKI Symposium since 1980. Below is a list of the previous symposia from the year 2000 onwards, and some information of the most recent ones.
2024: “Diversity in Communication”
XLIV International VAKKI Symposium
February 8–9, 2024 in Vaasa, Finland
Keynote speakers:
Christiane Maaß (University of Hildesheim, Germany)
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Ellen Nathues (University of Twente, the Netherlands)
Differences in Dialogue: The Many Voices We Can Encounter in Communication
2023: “Communicating with Purpose”
XLIII International VAKKI Symposium
February 9–10, 2023 in Vaasa, Finland
Keynote speakers:
Oana Brindusa Albu (Copenhagen Business School, Denmark)
Managing visibilities through communication: The shades and shadows of activism in repressive contexts
Anastasia Kavada (University of Westminster, UK)
Communicating (with) care: Vulnerability and communication for social change
2022: “Responsible Communication”
XLII International VAKKI Symposium
February 10–11, 2022 in Zoom
Keynote speakers:
Martin Hultman (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden)
Three decades of obstruction. How to analyze, understand and change communication patterns to avoid being stuck in the knowledge-action gap of climate change?
Nina Janich (Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany)
Science Communication under the Condition of Uncertainty from the Perspective of Applied Linguistics
2021: “Workplace Communication IV”
XLI International VAKKI Symposium
February 11–12, 2021 in Zoom
Keynote speakers:
Emma Christensen (Roskilde University) and Lars Thøger Christensen (Copenhagen Business School)
Examining the (Re)presentational Voice
Samantha Warren (University of Portsmouth)
Using Instagram in a participant-led field study: Reflections on the politics of organizational communication and identity
2020: “Workplace Communication III”
XL International VAKKI Symposium
February 6–7, 2020 in Vaasa, Finland
Keynote speakers:
Crispin Thurlow (University of Bern, Switzerland)
The (Grubby) Business of Words: What ‘George Clooney’ Tells Us
Dorien van de Mieroop (University of Leuven, Belgium)
Exploring narrative dimensions: The case of stories told in institutional contexts
2019: “Workplace Communication II”
XXXIX International VAKKI Symposium
February 7–8, 2019 in Vaasa, Finland
Keynote speakers:
Cornelius Puschmann (Hans Bredow Institute for Media Research, Hamburg, Germany)
The Enron email dataset as a window into workplace communication
Andrea Whittle (Newcastle University, Newcastle, United Kingdom)
Consequential categories: How categories in interaction work to get work done
2018: “Workplace Communication”
XXXVIII International VAKKI Symposium
February 8–9, 2018 in Vaasa, Finland
Keynote speakers:
Ruth Breeze (University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain)
You can be a great communicator! Self-help guides to workplace communication, and how to survive them
Wyke Stommel (Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands)
The use of metacommunication in online chat counselling: Three different strategies of responding to advice resistance
2017: “Voices”
XXXVII International VAKKI Symposium
February 9–10, 2017 in Vaasa, Finland
Keynote speakers:
David Giles (University of Winchester, UK)
Celebrities, audiences, fans: To what extent do social media dissolve the boundaries?
Mariá Ángeles Orts Llopis (Universidad de Murcia, Spain)
Legal English as the lingua franca of international law: an account of traits and pitfalls for Continental LSP practitioners and legal translators
2016: “Text and Textuality”
XXXVI International VAKKI Symposium
February 11–12, 2016 in Vaasa, Finland
Keynote speakers:
Susanne Göpferich (Justus Liebig University Giessen)
From Literacy to Academic Multiliteracy: Educational Challenges, Empirical Findings and Didactical Implications
Leena Kuure (University of Oulu)
Texts, literacies or multimodal practices?
Else Mundal (University of Bergen)
Textuality and the oral-written continuum in the Middle Ages
2015: “Borders under Negotiation”
XXXV International VAKKI Symposium
February 12–13, 2015 in Vaasa, Finland
Keynote speakers:
Jaakko Husa (University of Lapland)
Language of Law or Blind Men and an Elephant
Helge Jordheim (University of Oslo)
A philological paradigm? Philological invocations in the human sciences
Jens E. Olesen (University of Greifswald)
Working for an open border, common problems and possibilities: the case of the Danish-German border
2014: “Democracy”
XXXIV International VAKKI Symposium
February 13–14, 2014, Vaasa, Finland
Keynote speakers:
Mikko Lehtonen (University of Tampere):
Democracy, language, imagination
Tommi Lehtonen (University of Vaasa):
What is this thing called democracy?
2013: “Point of View as a Challenge”
2012: “Languages in Motion”
2011: “Language and Ethics”
2010: “XXX Jubilee Symposium: Language and Emotion”
2009: “Language and Power”
2008: “Language and Diversity”
2007: “Language and Lifestages”
2006: “Norms and normlessness”
2005: “XXV Jubilee Symposium”
2004: “LSP & Translation – A Multilingual Point of View”
2003: “Diachrony in Synchrony”
2002: “LSP and Translation – Focus on Teaching”
2001: “Understanding and Intelligibility”
2000: “Anniversary Symposium”