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Launching MULTIMODALITY TALKS Series

The UCL Visual and Multimodal Research Forum is collaborating with the University of Leeds Multimodality@Leeds and the University of Stockholm to offer the first of 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. 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 Multimodality Talks Series is organised by Elisabetta Adami (University of Leeds), Sophia Diamantopoulou (UCL), Eva Insulander and Eva Svärdemo Åberg (Stockholm University).

Please note that the forthcoming sessions of MULTIMODALITY TALKS are running fortnightly on Fridays from 12:00-13:30 GMT. Use the registration link below to access the Zoom link to the event.

FORTHCOMING MULTIMODALITY TALKS Series

5th February 2021 Professor Staffan Selander and Dr Eva Insulander, Stockholm University, Sweden

Knowledge representations and re-designs in museum contexts

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/multimodality-talks-knowledge-representations-and-re-designs-in-museums-tickets-136335016705

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 attend the talk, register here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/janina-wildfeuer-from-comic-strips-to-serious-games-multimodality-talk-tickets-132279825519

5th March 2021 Professor Yiqiong Zhang, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, Guangzhou, China

The same pandemic, different “PanMeMic”: A multimodal comparison of the pandemic websites by Chinese and American universities

To attend the talk, register here:

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/yiqiong-zhang-the-same-pandemic-different-panmemic-multimodality-talk-tickets-132285474415

26th March 2021 Professor Kobus Marais, The University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa

Tom, Dick and Harry as well as Puss in Boots and Fido are translators: The implications of biosemiotics for multimodal translation studies

To attend the talk, register here:

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/kobus-marais-biosemiotics-and-multimodal-translation-studies-tickets-132288491439

16th April 2021 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

To attend the talk, register here:

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/multimodality-talks-professor-mia-heikkila-tickets-135929245031

30th April 2021 Professor Carey Jewitt, UCL Institute of Education, UK

InTouch: Digital touch communication

To attend the talk, register here:

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/carey-jewitt-intouch-digital-touch-communication-tickets-132313319701

14th May 2021 Professor Anders Björkvall, Örebro University, Sweden & Orla Vigsø, University of Gothenburg, Sweden

The Semiotics of Destruction of Election Posters

To attend the talk, register here:

https://www.eventbrite.se/e/anders-bjorkvall-orla-vigs-the-semiotics-of-destruction-of-election-post-biljetter-132778633467

28th May 2021 Dr Najma Al Zidjaly, Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Oman

Whatsapp during the pandemic in the Arab World

To attend the talk, register here:

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/najma-al-zidjali-whatsapp-during-the-pandemic-in-the-arab-world-tickets-132315885375

4th June 2021 Professor Kay O’Halloran, University of Liverpool, UK

A Multimodal Approach to Big Data Analytics

To attend the talk, register here:

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/kay-ohalloran-a-multimodal-approach-to-big-data-analytics-tickets-132318788057

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 attend the talk, register here:

https://www.eventbrite.se/e/chiao-i-tseng-emilia-djonov-discourse-semantics-of-time-and-tickets-132782256303

RECORDINGS OF PAST MULTIMODALITY TALKS SESSIONS

3rd December 2020 Prof. Rodney Jones, University of Reading, UK

The invasion of the body snatcher: Synthetic embodiment and metalinguistic entanglement on TikTok

Watch the recording of the talk here.

10th December 2020 Dr Ibrahim Seray, UCL, UK

Communication and non speaking children with physical disabilities: The issue of recognition

Watch the recording of the talk here.

17th December 2020 Dr Carl Smith, Ravensbourne University London, UK

The multimodality of Contextology, Double Consciousness and Holotechnica

Watch the recording of the talk here.

8th January 2021 Dr Ali Reza Majlesi, Stockholm University, Sweden

Agency and joint activities with people with late-stage dementia

Watch the recording of the talk here.