In 2023/2024, the series entailed a new format as Conversations with Multimodality. We invited speakers from outside the field whose work relates to multimodal aspects of communication. Their key speech was commented on by two discussants with relevant expertise in multimodality. The topics for the 2024 sessions were AI, interculturality, health communication/education, and museums.
This year’s series of talks is organised by The UCL Visual and Multimodal Research Forum, the University of Leeds Multimodality@Leeds and Karolinska Institutet, Unit of Teaching and Learning.
- 26 January 2024
- Presenter: Dr Rebekah Wegener (Paris Lodron University Salzburg).
- Discussants: Prof Øystein Gilje (University of Oslo) & Henrika Florén (Karolinska Institutet).
- The Semiotic Machine: Technology and multimodal interaction in context
- To watch the recorded talk, see here
- 23 February 2024
- Presenter: Dr Haynes Collins (University of Leeds)
- Discussants: Dr Sara Van Meerbergen (Stockholm University) and Dr Elisabetta Adami (University of Leeds)
- Protests, Plural Identities and Semiotic Projections: Exploring Cohesion and Discord in Social Infrastructure Spaces
- To watch the recorded talk, please see here
- 26 April 2024
- Presenter: Dr. Christen Rachul (University of Manitoba)
- Discussants: Prof. Martin Engebretsen (University of Agder), Prof. Jeff Bezemer (UCL Institute of Education)
- Bringing a multimodal lens to medical education
- To watch the recorded talk, please see here
- 14 June 2024
- Presenter: Professor Theopisti Stylianou-Lambert (Cyprus University of Technology)
- Discussants: Dr Eva Insulander and Dr Jennifer Blunden
- Emerging technologies and museums: presence, embodiment and multisensory experiences
- To watch the recorded talk, please see here
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 Visual and Multimodal Research Forum 