Programme

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Doctoral Workshop

Thursday, May 23rd

9:30–10:00 Workshop Check-In, Agora Building Main Hall

10:00–12:00 Workshop groups meet (30 minutes per paper, 10 minutes for student presentations, 20 minutes for feedback by expert evaluators and discussion) 

• Group 1: Postill, Tenhunen, da-Costa Vroom, Hellström, Martela, Rathinam, Tawah, Terho; Room Ag C231
• Group 2: Archambault, Donner, Abdullahi, Francisco, Geirbo, Wagner, Walter; Room Ag C233

11:00 Coffee/tea break (to be enjoyed during group session)

12:00–13:00 Lunch

13:00–14:30 Workshop groups meet 

• Group 1, Room Ag C231
• Group 2, Room Ag C233

14:30 Coffee/tea break, Agora Building Main Hall

15:00–16:00 Workshop groups meet

• Group 1, Room Ag C231
• Group 2, Room Ag C233

18:00- Dinner, Harald [map]

Main Conference

Friday, May 24th 

11:00–12:00 Conference Check-In, Agora Building Main Hall

12:00–12:15 Welcome and Opening, Auditorium MaA 103

12:15–13:15 Keynote paper by John Postill: "Mobile phones and actual changes (big and small) in the global South: a preliminary exploration", Auditorium MaA 103

13:15–14:15 Keynote paper by Julie Archambault: "Mobile epistemologies and the anthropology of new media", Auditorium MaA 103

14:15–15:00 Coffee/tea break, Agora Building Main Hall

15:00–16:30 Panel sessions (30 minutes each: 20 minutes for presentation and 10 minutes for discussion) 

• PANEL 1: Mobile technology in the health sector in developing countries (Chair: Perpetual Crentsil), Room Ag C222
• PANEL 3: Mobile phones, social networks and social knowledge (Chair: Jonathan Donner), Room Ag C233 
• PANEL 4: Mobile telephony, politics, governance and education (Chair: Sirpa Tenhunen), Room Ag C232
• PANEL 5: Mobile phones and gender (Chair: Julie Archambault), Room Ag C231

16:30–16:45 Coffee/tea break, Agora Building Main Hall

16:45–17:45 Panel sessions resume

• PANEL 2: Mobile phones for enhancing agriculture and economic and and business transactions (Chair: Sirpa Tenhunen), Room Ag C231 
• PANEL 3: Mobile phones, social networks and social knowledge (Chair: Laura Stark), Room Ag C233
• PANEL 6: Mobile telephony and technological development (Chair: Jukka Jouhki), Room Ag C232
• PANEL 7: Calling to arms: Communication circuits and war in Africa (Chair: Mirjam de Bruijn), Room Ag C222

18:15– Conference dinner at Hotel Alba

Main Conference

Saturday, May 25th 

9:00–10:30 Panel sessions continue

• PANEL 1: Mobile technology in the health sector in developing countries (Chair: Laura Stark), Room Ag D121 
• PANEL 2: Mobile phones for enhancing agriculture and economic and business transactions (Chair: John Postill), Room Ag C231
• PANEL 3: Mobile phones, social networks and social knowledge (Chair: Primus Tazanu), Room Ag C233
• PANEL 6: Mobile telephony and technological development (Chair: Jukka Jouhki), Room Ag C232
• PANEL 7:  Calling to arms: Communication circuits and war in Africa (Chair: Inge Brinkman), Room Ag C222

10:30–11:00 Coffee/tea break, Agora Building Main Hall

11:00–12:00 Panel sessions continue

• PANEL 2: Mobile phones for enhancing agriculture and economic and business transactions (Chair: Perpetual Crentsil), Room Ag C231
• PANEL 3: Mobile phones, social networks and social knowledge (Chair: Primus Tazanu), Room Ag C233 
• PANEL 6: Mobile telephony and technological development (Chair: Jukka Jouhki), Room Ag C232

12:00–13:00 Lunch

13:15–14:15 Keynote paper by Jonathan Donner: "Everybody's Internet: Mobile data in the developing world", Auditorium MaA 103

14:15–15:00 FILM: Connecting dreams, live histories, communication and mobility (a film depicting the first years of mobile telephony in Africa), Auditorium MaA 103. 

15:00–15:30 General discussion on theme “Mobile for development: where do we go from here?”, Auditorium MaA 103

15:30–15:45 Closing of conference, Auditorium MaA 103