Seminar & Workshop: Caring technologies & mental health matters

Welcome to this two-day event, which will be held both onsite and online.

CARING TECHNOLOGIES & MENTAL HEALTH MATTERS

Seminar & Workshop at Tampere University, Finland, June 9–10 2026

Day 1. Caring Technologies Seminar, June 9: Open-to-public seminar with two keynotes

Virta Building, Auditorium 109, at Tampere University (Åkerlundinkatu 5) and

LIVESTREAM (Shortlink: https://bit.ly/4sSKlmD)

10:15 – 11:45: Opening words and keynote

Professor Jeannette Pols (University of Amsterdam, NL):

How Technologies Improve Our World – Or Not: Forms of the Good in Ethnographic Studies of Technology

13:00–14:45: Session 1

Taina Meriluoto (University of Helsinki) & Suvi Salmenniemi (University of Turku):

Radical Self-Care and Contradictions of Capitalism: Insights from Instagram

Daria Kosinova (University of Turku):

‘There Is No One Magic Touch’: Affective Atmospheres of Digital Mental Health Care Among People with Migrant and Ethnic Minority Backgrounds Living in Finland

Mari Lehto (University of Turku):

Networked Neurodivergence: Unruly Intensities of Digital ADHD Life

15:00–16:10: Session 2

Essi Holopainen (University of Helsinki) & Meri Kulmala (University of Helsinki):

Digital Wellbeing of Young People: Mental Health Peer Support on Social Media

Marjo Kolehmainen (University of Turku):

Haunting Data: Mental Health, Data-Hacking and Digital Temporalities

16:30 – 17:45: Keynote

Professor Ian Tucker (University of East London, UK):

Algorithmic Atmospheres and Digital Infrastructures of Care: Reconfiguring Mental Health in Digital Cultures

Day 2: Mental Health Matters Workshop, June 10, with an open-to-public keynote and workshop for invited participants

Tampere University, Linna building (Kalevantie 5). The keynote talk is accessible online via Zoom (Link: https://utu.zoom.us/j/65881823543)

11:30 – 12:45 Keynote

Dr Jacinthe Flore (University of Melbourne, Australia):

Mental Health Beyond the Mind: Technologies of the ‘Total Body’

The event is jointly organized by the Research Council of Finland funded project Networked Care: Intimate Matters in Online Mental Health Support at the University of Turku (PI: Marjo Kolehmainen) and TaSTI - Tampere Centre for Science, Technology and Innovation Studies at the University of Tampere (Director: Mianna Meskus).