Chairing the discussion panel “Ethnology meets Technology” at the VIII Ethnology Days 2014

The ethnology days THICK GRIP ON DATA? – Ethnological Intepretations and Analysis | VIII Ethnology Days 2014 by Ethnos Association takes place this year in Helsinki 13.-14.3.2014. I will be chairing the panel “Ethnology meets Technology” panel, which will be debating about the relationship of ethnology towards different technologies, from internet to mobile phones, from house hold appliances to transportations. Some of the workshops in the seminar are in Finnish only, but this panel is in English for the enjoyment of those who have not the pleasure of knowing Finnish.

The panel members will be the Director of Development at National Board of Antiquities, ethnologist and a carpenter Carina Jaatinen and Jukka Jouhki, anthropologist and a Senior Researcher at the University of Jyväskylä.

The panel starts at 2.30 pm on Friday and you can follow it live here!

You can also comment the panelists and join the discussion in Twitter with #ethnologydays2014.