Organizers

Samira Ibnelkaïd is an Affiliate Researcher at the University of Oulu (Finland) and the ICAR Laboratory Lyon (France), and a Kone Foundation grantee. Her current funded research project is titled "Liberation: Decolonizing Mobility and Identity in the Digital Era". Drawing on what she terms Critical Phenomenology of Interaction, her work addresses the intricate relationships between mobility, identity, and power structures, focusing on how these dynamics are shaped by omnicolonialism and challenged through communal and digital practices. The core of Samira's research lies in challenging the European dominant narrative that frames migration as a crisis and racialized individuals as threats, arguing instead in favour of translocal networks of multibelonging and collective emotional, sensory, and epistemic intelligence. 

Email: samira.ibnelkaid(at)oulu.fi 

Personal website: samiraibnelkaid.com

Iuliia Avgustis is a Postdoctoral Researcher at Tampere University, an Affiliate Researcher at the University of Oulu, and a Kone Foundation grantee. Her current funded research project is titled "Neurotypical and Neurodivergent (Dis)engagements: Practices of Smartphone Use in Face-to-Face Interactions". Drawing on multimodal interaction analysis of video-recorded naturally occurring interactions, her research examines how individuals with and without ADHD manage smartphone-related disengagements during face-to-face interactions and navigate the social and moral implications of device use. By respecifying ADHD symptoms as observable interactional phenomena, Iuliia's research aims to provide a framework for studying interactions involving neurodivergent participants, thus expanding the limited literature on atypical interactions. 

Email: iuliia.avgustis(at)tuni.fi

University of Oulu research profile