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
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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 Fariha Salman
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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 Dr. Pei Soo Ang, University Malaya, Malaysia
Advocating for inclusivity of people with disabilities through visual communication
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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. Lousie 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 Lauran Doak
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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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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