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Ethnography is applied in different disciplines, as the conference Ethnography with a Twist also showed. The conference was held at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland, from 12 to 14 February 2019. The conference gathered over 160 participants, who came from nearly 20 different countries. At the conference, there were many different fields of research present, for example, virtual world, urban, and family research. The program of the conference also showed how widely and multidisciplinarily ethnography was dealt with and how ethnography can also be part of the art field. As the program may also suggest, twisting can mean very many things, and the participants also understood "ethnography with a twist" in many different ways. At the conference, an often heard question was, "what is twisting in ethnography?" At this conference, twisting ethnography meant differing from previous research, looking from a new perspective, blending methods, modifying the target of using collected data or results, going beyond the boundaries of science and art, focusing on body knowledge, and using ethnography in business. Ongoing collaborative ethnography and the gentle touch of twisting The first keynote speaker was Marie Sandberg, Associate Professor at the Ethnology Section, Saxo Institute, University of Copenhagen. She introduced an ongoing collaborative research project where the data has been produced and collected collectively. Sandberg explores different informal modes of volunteer work in support of refugees who came to Europe in 2015. Sandberg's research focuses on the experiences of volunteers at train stations and reception centers in three different European countries. However, Sandberg pointed out that the refugee crisis was also a crisis of reception. Sandberg also mentioned that the refugee situation has not been studied from the point of view of volunteer helpers, and therefore her research focuses on them. Sandberg uses ongoing collaborative methods, including workshops and discussing, walking, and doing together. Often these methods involve many researchers, and they have their own roles, such as debater, observer, or recorder.
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