Sophia Diamantopoulou (UCL Institute of Education), Elisabetta Adami (University of Leeds School of Languages, Cultures and Societies), Eva Insulander and Eva Svärdemo Åberg (Stockholm University, Dept. of Education) are pleased to invite you to a series of jointly organized talks on multimodality.
MULTIMODALITY TALKS Series is a joint initiative for researchers across the world who are interested in multimodality. It aims to provide a platform for dialogue for advancing multimodal research across disciplines. Multimodality draws attention to how meaning is made through the combined use of semiotic resources such as gesture, speech, face expression, body movement and proxemics, (still and moving) image, objects, sound and music, writing, colour, layout, and the built environment.
If you would like to present your work at our series, please send a title, abstract and short biosketch to: e.adami@leeds.ac.uk sophia.diamantopoulou@ucl.ac.uk eva.insulander@edu.su.se and eva.svardemo-aberg@edu.su.se
The seminars will be running 12.00-13.30 GMT – 13.00-14:30 CET online on Zoom. Kindly use the registration link to register and attend the talk.
In this programme, you can find links to recordings of previous talks if the speaker has agreed for the talk to be recorded.
Semester 2:
- 20th January 2023
Speaker: Dr Maria Papadopoulou, Associate Professor in Language and Literacy Education at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Multimodal communication in emergent multilingual contexts: analyzing tutor-students’ interactions
To watch the recorded talk, please see here
- 3rd February 2023
Dr. Michele Zappavigna, University of New South Wales, Australia
Picture characters and paralanguage: Modelling emoji-text relations in social media discourse
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- 17th February 2023
Dr. Pei Soo Ang, University Malaya, Malaysia
Advocating for inclusivity of people with disabilities through visual communication
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- 3rd March 2023
Prof. Adam Jaworski, University of Hong Kong
Sculptural Place Names: Between Elitism and Egalitarianism in Gentrified Urban Spaces
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- 17th March 2023
Fariha Salman
Title: to be announced
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- 31th March 2023
Dr. Sara van Meerbergen, Stockholm University, Sweden
Translation Studies meets Social Semiotics. Recontextualization of images and changing multimodal depictions of agency, gender and diversity in translated picture books and media for children.
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- 21th April 2023
Prof. Louise Ravelli, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Museums and Communication in the 21st Century
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- 5th May 2023
Dr. William Feng, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
Tradition, modernity, and Chinese masculinity: The multimodal construction of ideal manhood in a reality dating show
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- 19th May 2023
Dr Lauran Doak, Nottingham Trent University, UK
Rethinking play and ‘play deficits’ in autism through multimodal analysis of playground video data.
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- 2nd June 2023
Prof. Arlene Archer, University of Cape Town, South Africa
A multimodal approach to English for academic purposes in contexts of diversity
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First Semester:
- 14th October 2022 9:30-11:00 BST
Prof Theo van Leeuwen
Organizational semiotics: practices and products
To watch the recorded talk, see here
- 28th October 2022
Prof Martin Engebretsen, University of Agder, Norway
Studying data visualization as a social and semiotic practice
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- 11th November 2022
Prof Bessie Mitsikopoulou, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
Integrating multimodal and digital literacies in language education
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- 25th November 2022
Prof. Lisa Björlund Boistrup, Malmö University, Sweden
Multimodality and mathematisation: Different communicational resources in relation to mathematisations within and outside the mathematics classroom
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- 9th December 2022
Dr. Sumin Zhao & Chris Cummins, University of Edinburgh, UK
Arguing with numbers in digital multimodal dialogue
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MULTIMODALITY TALKS Series is organised by The UCL Visual and Multimodal Research Forum, the University of Leeds Multimodality@Leeds and Insulander/Svärdemo Åberg at the Department of Education, Stockholm University. It is conceived of working as a tandem with the Bremen-Groningen Online Workshops on Multimodality to make the best of the online format to offer multiple chances for sharing research and stimulating discussions on multimodality worldwide.
The Visual and Multimodal Research Forum 