Conference report of 2024

Juhana participated the International Conference of Conversation Analysis and Psychotherapy in Mannhein, Germany, March of 2024. Juhana had a data session in the conference with the theme of embodied empathy and touch in medical consultations and gaining helpful comments from the participants.

 

Johanna was the keynote speaker in the conference of Conversation Analysis and Clinical Encounters, in Wolfson College of Oxford University in July 2024, with the topic of our project, Touch & Affect in Healthcare.  Furthermore, Johanna presented in International Conference on Language and Social Psychology in Tallinn June 2024 with the topic “Managing affect in health care encounters with patients and their companions”.

 

Juhana and Enhua Guo presented the panel Touch, affect and embodiment in Healthcare: an EMCA perspective in the conference of International Institute for Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis, Seoul, Korea in June 2024. Eri Sakai participated the panel with the topic “Touching and description of time scales: Conversation analysis of physical assessment in medical acupuncture sessions” and Rachel Chen with “Touching Transformation: The interactive stims of two sensorially-contrastive non-speaking Autistic children”.