Multimodality Talks Series

Webinar

Date: Friday 20 January 2023

Time: 13.00 – 14.30

Location: Online

Dr. Maria Papadopoulou, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.

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.

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.

Elisabetta Adami (University of Leeds School of Languages, Cultures and Societies), Sophia Diamantopoulou (UCL Institute of Education), 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.

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.

To receive announcements on our talks, please sign up to:
https://groups.google.com/g/multimodality-talks-series

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.

20th January 2023	Dr. Maria Papadopoulou, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki To attend the talk, please register 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 To attend the talk, please register here
17th February 2023	Fariha Salman To attend the talk, please register here
3rd March 2023	Prof. Adam Jaworski, University of Hong Kong Sculptural Place Names: Between Elitism and Egalitarianism in Gentrified Urban Spaces To attend the talk, please register here
17th March 2023	Dr. Pei Soo Ang, University Malaya, Malaysia Advocating for inclusivity of people with disabilities through visual communication To attend the talk, please register here
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. To attend the talk, please register here
21th April 2023	Prof. Lousie Ravelli, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia Museums and Communication in the 21st Century To attend the talk, please register here
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 To attend the talk, please register here
19th May 2023	Lauran Doak To attend the talk, please register here
2nd June 2023	Prof. Arlene Archer, University of Cape Town, South Africa A multimodal approach to English for academic purposes in contexts of diversity To attend the talk, please register here

The Multimodality Talks team across our three institutions include:

UCL
Sophia Diamantopoulou, Lecturer UCL IOE
Jiawei Ding, PhD student, UCL IOE
Mimoe Iigo, UCL IOE alumna
Karen Choi, UCL IOE alumna

University of Leeds
Elisabetta Adami, Associate Professor
Zhe Liu, PhD student
Ahlam Almohissen. PhD student

Stockholm University
Eva Insulander, Associate professor and senior lecturer, Department of Education
Eva Svärdemo Åberg, Senior lecturer, Department of Education
Henrika Florén, PhD student UCL IOE

Theme

School, Education and Learning

Research subjects

Didactics, Teaching, and Learning Research in Higher Education Life-Long Learning, Knowledge Acquistion, and the Development of Civil Society Historical and Sociological Perspectives on Education

Research groups

Higher Education Learning Practices (HELP)

The Research Group on Higher Education Learning Practices at Stockholm University engages in theoretical and empirical research on different aspects of higher education.

History of Education and Sociology of Education

The research group has an interest in the meaning and evolution of educational systems. The changing conditions of education are highlighted both historically and in present-day terms, on a conceptual and policy level.

Last updated: January 9, 2023

Source: IPD