In 2024 the Multimodality Talks Series will experiment a new format as Conversations with Multimodality. We have invited speakers from outside the field whose work relates to multimodal aspects of communication. The topics for this year’s sessions will be AI, Interculturality, Medical communication/education, and Museums. The key speech will be commented on by two discussants with relevant expertise in multimodality, before opening to the Q&A.
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 you will receive a link to attend the talk.
26 January 2024 – Theme: AI
Talk title: The Semiotic Machine: Technology and multimodal interaction in context
Presenter: Rebekah Wegener, Paris Lodron University Salzburg
Discussants: Oystein Gilje, University of Oslo / Henrika Florén, Karolinska istitutet
23 Feb. 2024 – Theme: Interculturality
Talk title: Protests, Plural Identities and Semiotic Projections: Exploring Cohesion and Discord in Social Infrastructure Spaces.
Presenter: Haynes Collins, University of Leeds
Discussants: Sara Van Meerbergen, Stockholm University / Elisabetta Adami, University of Leeds
22 April 2024 - Theme: Medical Communication/Education
Talk Title Bringing a multimodal lens to medical education
Presenter: Christen Rachul, University of Manitoba
Discussants: Martin Engbretsen, University of Agder /Jeff Bezemer, UCL IOE
17 May 2024 - Theme: Museums
Talk Title TBC
Presenter: Theopisti Stylianou-Lambert, Cyprus University of Technology
Discussants: Eva Insulander, Stockholm University / Alexandra Bounia, University of the Aegean
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.
This international 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. 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 team across our three institutions include:
UCL
Sophia Diamantopoulou, Associate Professor
Jiawei Ding, PhD student
Karen Choi, alumna
University of Leeds
Elisabetta Adami, Associate Professor
Karolinska Institutet
Henrika Florén, Educational Developer
Marcus Emas, Educational Developer
MULTIMODALITY AT LEEDS 