Calendar

2025

Want to see what I’m doing? Click a month to see my public commitments scheduled for that month. Internal and regular meetings and presentations are mostly not listed in this overview.

December
  • EU Cost Action Network PLURILINGMEDIA meeting on 3 December in Warsaw
  • Presentation of the UNESCO project “Empowering the Government and Citizens of Uzbekistan by Strengthening Access to Information, Accountability of Institutions, and Media Competence” at the last meeting of the year of the authorities’ network MIL Sweden on 4 December
  • Presentation of the report Language-friendly Gothenburg? for the Council of the Sweden-Finnish Minority at the City of Gothenburg on 4 December
  • An invited talk at the 10th anniversary of Språkkraft/Lingvis on 8 December in Stockholm
  • Submission of the draft strategy to the presidential administration of the Republic of Uzbekistan within the UNESCO project
  • Running for election to the UNESCO MIL Alliance global board
  • Publication of the article “Language-friendliness as minority governance: Finnish-speaking older people’s experiences of an age-friendly city policy in Sweden” in Wellbeing, Space & Society
  • Publication of the special issue “The cultures of Finnishness in Sweden” in the journal Kulttuurintutkimus – Kulturstudier
November
  • Kick-off of the work of the evaluation committee of Norwegian journalism education at the Norwegian Agency for Quality Assurance in Education (NOKUT) on 3 November in Oslo
  • The first “sauna dialogue” at Tillsammansfestivalen, a festival for intergenerational encounters of the City of Gothenburg, on 7 November
  • An interview on the UNESCO project “Empowering the Government and Citizens of Uzbekistan by Strengthening Access to Information, Accountability of Institutions, and Media Competence” published in GU Journal on 11 November
  • AI workshop for Finnish-language employees of Svenska Kyrkan on 13 November
  • An invited talk at the conference “Digital Colonization and Epistemic Resistance: Digital Competences and Media Education 4.0” on 19–20 November at the Pedagogical University of Krakow, Poland
  • A conference of the Nordic-Baltic Network for Cultural Journals organized by Nätverkstan in Gothenburg on 20–21 November
  • Meeting with the Nordic steering group of the project “Nordic co-operation on a safer digital democracy for children and youth” at the Nordic Welfare Centre in Stockholm on 24–26 November
  • Advisory group meeting on the grants for the culture of the national minorities at the Swedish Arts Council on 27–28 November
October
  • Special issue webinar on the JEMIE issue “Teaching and learning resources for linguistic minorities” as part of ECMI’s Online Talks on 6 October
  • Presentation of the draft MIL strategy in Uzbekistan to stakeholders as part of the UNESCO MIL project
  • Academic visit to the Riga Stradins University in Latvia with guest lectures and a workshop on 12–13 October
  • A presentation at the conference “Perspectives on the Revitalization of Minority Languages” by the Institute of Language and Folklore (Isof) at the University of Lund on 16–17 October
  • Webinar on cultural policies organized by Länsstyrelsen i Stockholm on 23 October
  • Launch of the report on the language-friendly city commissioned by the Äldreombudsmannen of the City of Gothenburg
  • Submission of the inception report of the project on Nordic policies of children’s digital media use for the Nordic Welfare Centre
  • Global MIL Week by UNESCO in Cartagena with online presentations (online)
  • A keynote talk at the online conference “Media and information literacy & intercultural dialogue in the era of AI” of the UNESCO Chair Intercultural Policy for an Active Citizenship and Solidarity under the auspices of the Hellenic National Commission of UNESCO on 29–30 October in Thessaloniki, Greece
  • A presentation with B. Straszer at the conference “Modersmål, mångfald och minoriteter” (MMM2025) at Dalarna University in Falun on 28 October
  • Release of the anthology The art of flerspråkigt skrivande by the cultural magazine Lyktan (ed. L. Lovén)
September
  • TADAM AI & media literacy hackathon in Athens on 4 September
  • Presentation of national minorities research at a webinar organized by Länsstyrelsen Västerbotten on 4 September
  • Evaluation of UNESCO MIL Youth Hackathon submissions (1,200 submissions from 124 countries across the world)
  • ECREA board meeting in Brno 15–17 September
  • Deadline for Journalistica NordMedia special issue submissions on 15 September
  • Publishing agreement on the book Pedagogical Journalism with Peter Lang
  • Publishing agreement of the anthology Linguistic minorities in AI society: Opportunities and challenges of artificial intelligence for minoritized languages and cultures with Academic Studies Press
  • Gothenburg Book Fair on 25–28 September, incl. collaborations with TINFO, Författarcentrum Väst, Göteborgs Stads kulturförvaltning etc.
  • Publication of the special issue “Teaching and learning resources for linguistic minorities” in the Journal of Ethnopolitics and Minority Issues in Europe (JEMIE)
August
  • NordMedia2025 Conference in Odense on 13–15 August
  • NordMedia2025 Doctoral Pre-Conference in Odense on 12 August
  • Publication of the results of the Nordic journalism educators and AI survey
  • Kick-off of the project “Nordic co-operation on a safer digital democracy for children and youth” with the Nordic Welfare Centre in Stockholm on 25–26 August, in collaboration between Tampere University, Oslo University and Nordicom
July
  • On vacation, no public commitments
  • WJEC Conference and meeting in San Francisco; I was elected to the steering committee of the World Journalism Education Council (WJEC) as the representative of Europe
June
  • Nordic Cultural Policy Forum by the Nordic Council of Ministers in Suomenlinna, Helsinki, on 17–18 June
  • Webinar on AI & media literacy organized by the TADAM project on 26 June
  • Evaluation report of the journalism education study programme at Stockholm University submitted
May
  • EASE Conference (European Association of Scientific Editors) in Oslo on 23–17 May
  • Hanaholmen annual journalism students’ intensive course in Espoo on 19–23 May
  • Annual Finnish National Media Educational Forum in Helsinki on 22 May
April
  • Meeting of the expert group for the cultures of national minorities of the Swedish Arts Council
  • Stepped down as the editor-in-chief of the journal Kulttuurintutkimus – Kulturstudier, after a 3-year mandate period
March
  • NERA Conference in Helsinki on 5–7 March
  • Started working in the advisory committee of EAVI, first meeting on 14 March
  • Visit to the Sámi cultural centre Aejlies in Tärnaby on 25 March
  • Panel discussion organized by Kommittén av demokratins röstbärare in collaboration with Sveriges Unga Akademi and Unescorådet in Stockholm on 27 March
  • Presentation on AI for communication officers of Svenska Kyrkan on 28 March
February
  • TADAM workshop for minority-language public-service journalists in Stockholm on 4 February
  • Panel discussion with AI Sweden organized by Sveriges Unga Akademi in Gothenburg on 6 February
  • PLURILINGMEDIA Cost Action Network management committee/core group meeting in Budapest on 11–13 February
  • Workshop on AI in academic writing for the Centre of School Development at the City of Gothenburg on 18 February
  • Panel discussion organized by the Writers’ Centre West in Gothenburg on 20 February
  • Host/moderator at the Sweden-Finns’ Day at the City Library of Gothenburg on 24 February
  • Consultations with stakeholders in Tashkent as part of the UNESCO MIL project
  • Presentation for the City of Stockholm on national minorities on 26 February
January
  • Started to work for UNESCO Uzbekistan as an international consultant within the project “Empowering the Government and Citizens of Uzbekistan by Strengthening Access to Information, Accountability of Institutions, and Media Competence”
  • Launch of the book AI-journalistik: Artificiell intelligens och algoritmer på redaktionen by the Swedish publisher Studentlitteratur