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.
The seminars will be running 12.00-13.30 GMT (13.00-14.30 CET) online on Zoom. 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.
- 3rd December 2020 Prof Rodney Jones, University of Reading, UK
The invasion of the body snatcher: Synthetic embodiment and metalinguistic entanglement on TikTok
To watch the recorded talk, see:
https://universityofleeds.zoom.us/rec/play/dSJuZTXQnMAQpThDDmwkn5TtwD-Zyi8Pvt-TttdVVF9omh8N9OGRzZLTcXm8z5Acm9tPoUILAXND3STp.WHlSKRzQ8XB6X1OM?continueMode=true&_x_zm_rtaid=RmrVqhqHTW-9Yq8pq29Pjg.1607427555793.60581dfba7b580c097ca2c1c3e3f7531&_x_zm_rhtaid=415
- 10th December 2020 Dr Ibrahim Seray, UCL, UK
Communication and non speaking children with physical disabilities: The issue of recognition
To watch the recorded talk, see here:
https://ucl.zoom.us/rec/play/eSbKrBPq4xIIj6tvKg4kwrD6_puS7GixMJKbdtMkQjUGXBj5NSbIMQdOQuOxADNIvA9x4PDPeCdTvvwi.KKNyuN1dZAT2iRuF?continueMode=true
- 17th December 2020 Dr Carl Hayden Smith, Principal Research Fellow, Ravensbourne University London; Director of the Learning Technology Research Centre (LTRC)
The Multimodality of Contextology, Double Consciousness and Holotechnica
To watch the recorded talk see here:
https://ucl.zoom.us/rec/play/LV-qoFS5P8Ul_r3aIONU0xnmzBI3HWsZg-t9RVqh2YZgZj1yk9Ygd0ryIBQ3FAkkIAEUXikS0zBAttYD.pn0xRfI1o5cfIePr?continueMode=true
- 8th January 2021 Dr Ali Reza Majlesi, Stockholm University, Sweden
Agency and joint activities with people with late-stage dementia
To watch the recorded talk, see here:
https://video.su.se/media/Ali+Reza+Majlesi+-+On+Agency/0_9xmq9l21 - 22nd January 2021 Professor Øystein Gilje, University of Oslo, Norway and Professor Henning Fjørtoft, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Assessment practices of multimodal compositions
To watch the recorded talk, see here (Passcode: s2*.Pvnz):
https://ucl.zoom.us/rec/share/U7_SfLZoKg6SQpzfCZPSFxa_3a1wT3adY6RS3UhCbCppGE2biRK9VL8ap_ZQVJHH.4KtP-GGYhGrqCaIV
- 5th February 2021 Dr Staffan Selander, Stockholm University, Professor Emeritus and Dr Eva Insulander, Stockholm University, Sweden
Knowledge representations and (re-)designs in museum contexts
To watch the recorded talk, see here (Passcode: q229$r&t):
https://ucl.zoom.us/rec/share/HY7Fg-Xl_BnjRw0aNyi2PLS-0Ia6rtGRqeBXKkU6PGXwbqXaqU5H2W6MiG_1ncdT.VeNwyvYFF48V6P52
- 19th February 2021 Dr Janina Wildfeuer, University of Groningen, Netherlands
From comics strips to serious games: Notes about the multimodal complexity of first-aid instructions
To watch the recorded talk, see here (Passcode: 479675):
https://universityofleeds.zoom.us/rec/play/uZl93C6XIM6eu82AYgUs8cGS5OwFtJBvvCfvkycIdBHvzQawz_3ROm4preuG3tIivZJQAEHYZk3xlmX3.NjVD2g5YiCHqNiJX?continueMode=true
- 5th March 2021 Professor Yiqiong Zang, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, Guangzhou, China
The same pandemic, different “PanMeMic”: The same pandemic, different “PanMeMic”: COVID-19 in Chinese and American university websites
To watch the recorded talk, see here:
https://universityofleeds.zoom.us/rec/play/2rUirBwK60H4Hn9U8bj-UPxpKXKKCyXA7uRISHA44HyxFXmoJT75i6a4L6AofkCWD7utTel9eumnp3dB.8KG_cE3eJ58iQUG2?continueMode=true&_x_zm_rtaid=PrDftjQLQxWhqCHcVaI6kA.1615197253877.7be16350c0dcdc2afb6d6d39632873af&_x_zm_rhtaid=560 - 26th March 2021 Professor Kobus Marais, The University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa
The multimodality of translation in precolonial African contexts
To watch the recorded talk, see here:
https://universityofleeds.zoom.us/rec/play/JJ04OLVPL5MXbt5rCLZJfpA7JblWA42U7te72TVxIpQKvrCwlh7NLTpIZrULpImh7BgaCq5-XAz6ZFUV.5MZkNXNPaO6AfzDh?continueMode=true
- 16th April 2021 CANCELLED
Professor Mia Heikkilä, Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland
A multimodal, gender analysis of the ‘kitchen corner’ in early childhood education settings – a place for reproduction of gender stereotypes
- 30th April 2021 Professor Carey Jewitt, UCL Institute of Education, UK
InTouch: Digital touch communication
To watch the recorded talk, see here:
https://universityofleeds.zoom.us/rec/play/-wpSeAe3a-cECiWY4vk4S1t5qOR-qc6esgNJbwrmDbuS4dF-h68kxNdb_4PyNYTLwM-A8QcMvah2Kwjx.lrXzkdd-QTUdc3ab?continueMode=true
- 14th May 2021 Dr Najma Al Zidjaly, Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Oman
Covid-19 WhatsApp Stickers as Public Signs in Oman
To watch the recorded talk, see here:
https://universityofleeds.zoom.us/rec/play/1vKWgmPP4vMveEIVjVQsCs6fKhcQV6YN_I2IElkxvpOgmgcFFY2y6WOdD3n3j2n795ELfjzGIWW9or_m.idI6nY3CGIs69SnY?continueMode=true
- 28th May 2021 Professor Anders Björkvall, Örebro University, Sweden & Orla Vigsø, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
The Semiotics of Destruction of Election Posters
To watch the recorded talk, see here:
https://video.su.se/media/Multimodality+talks+-+Anders+Bj%C3%B6rkwall+and+Orla+Vigs%C3%B8/0_oh73y3h7
- 4th June 2021 Professor Kay O’Halloran, University of Liverpool, UK
A Multimodal Approach to Big Data Analytics
To watch the recorded talk, see here:
https://universityofleeds.zoom.us/rec/play/whFjr-fKIpDDIU2HCcrU8n42AksfpnbjFQGWhGApINNABSgTfyGYUYEZY4afPoKb4FRX5FKISKjc0QY.JwBsT4nu3PbhhGyM?continueMode=true
- 18th June 2021 Dr Chiao-I Tseng, University of Bremen, Germany & Dr Emilia Djonov, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
Discourse Semantics of Time and Transmedia Narratives for Children
To watch the recorded talk, see here:
https://video.su.se/media/Dr+Chiao-I+Tseng+%26+Dr+Emilia+Djonov/0_29j2x2gg
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