The First Bremen Conference on Multimodality took place in September 2014. The programme featured speakers from more than 15 nations and various disciplines. Besides the talks and discussions, there were also poster presentations by some colleagues. Please find their titles and abstracts here.
| Wednesday, 10 September | ||
| 18.00 | Come Together @ Teerhof | |
| Thursday, 11 September | |||
| 09.00-09.15 | Conference Opening | ||
| 09.15-10.00 | Keynote Hartmut Stöckl | From Text-Linguistics to Multimodality – Mapping Concepts and Methods across Domains | |
| 10.00-10.20 | Coffee Break |
| Panel I: Methods for Multimodality Reserach I | |||
| 10.20-10.55 | Marc Debus, Heiner Stuckenschmidt & Hartmut Wessler | On the Use of Different Modalities in Political Communication: Evidence from German Election Manifestos | |
| 10.55-11.30 | Ognyan Seizov | A Visual Communication Approach to Multimodal Document Analysis Online | |
| 11.30-12.05 | Jan Krasni | Bridging the Gap between Polyphony and Multimodality in Online Media Formats | |
| 12.05-12.40 | Ana-Maria Teodorescu | News Items Possible Paradigm in Analyzing Online Editions for Romanian Newspapers – The Multimodal Approach? | |
| 12.45-14.00 | Lunch Break |
| Panel II: Methods for Multimodality Research II | |||
| 14.00-14.35 | Martin Kaltenbacher & Thomas Kaltenbacher | Seeing the Unforeseen: Eye-Tracking and Multimodal Analysis | |
| 14.35-15.10 | Simone Paolo Ponzetto, Hartmut Wessler, Lydia Weiland, Stephan Kopf, Wolfgang Effelsberg & Heiner Stuckenschmidt | Automatic Classification of Iconic Images Based on a Multimodal Model. An Interdisciplinary Project | |
| 15.10-15.45 | Tuomo Hiippala | Layout Symmetry in Bilingual Documents | |
| 16.00-16.20 | Coffee Break |
| Panel III: Methods for Multimodality Research III | |||
| 16.20-16.55 | Alina Kwiatkowska | Cognitive Semiotics as a Common Descriptive Framework for Pictorial and Verbal Representation | |
| 16.55-17.30 | Sandra Handl | Dos and Don’ts in Pictorial and Multimodal Consumer Information: Visual Rhetoric and/vs. Cognitive Semantics | |
| 17.30-18.05 | Anna Mattfeldt | Images and Agonalitaet (Polarity) in Discourse Analysis | |
| 18.05-18.40 | Wendy L. Bowcher & Jennifer Yameng Liang0 |
Issues and Suggestions for Describing the GSP of Page-Based Multimodal Texts | |
| 19.30 | Conference Dinner @ LUV |
| Friday, 12 September | |||
| 09.15-10.00 | Keynote Diane Mavers | Reflecting on the Semiotic Work of Multimodal Research | |
| 10.00-10.20 | Coffee Break |
| Panel IV: Film, TV & Comics | |||
| 10.20-10.55 | Christina Schmitt | Amodality – Multimodality. Metaphoric Meaning Making in Audiovisuals | |
| 10.55-11.30 | Assimakis Tseronis | Towards an argumentative analysis of multimodal discourse: Balancing facts against emotion in documentary films about the economic crisis | |
| 11.30-12.05 | Shaimaa El Naggar | Critical Discourse Analysis and Multimodality: Tracing ‘New’ Domains and Genres | |
| 12.05-12.40 | Elisa Vales | Narrative Process Annotation of Comic Strips for Corpus Analysis | |
| 12.45-14.00 | Lunch Break |
| Panel V: Various Multimodal Artefacts | |||
| 14.00-14.35 | Ulrike Wrobel | German Sign Language (DGS) as an instance of a multimodal language? | |
| 14.35-15.10 | Kaela Zhang | Public Healthcare Posters: A Social Semiotic Approach to Cross-Cultural Studies | |
| 15.10-15.45 | Kate Maxwell | When Here is Now and There is Then: Bridging the Gap in Time | |
| 16.00-16.20 | Coffee Break |
| Panel VI: Various Multimodal Artefacts II | |||
| 16.20-16.55 | Martin Siefkes & Emanuele Arielli |
An Experimental Approach to Multimodality. Investigating the Interactions between Musical and Architectural Styles in Aesthetic Perception | |
| 16.55-17.30 | Dorra Moalla | Visual Literacy in EAP: The Dialogue between Reader/Designer Features and Multimodal Text | |
| 17.30-18.05 | António Manuel Dos Santos Avelar | Visual and Visual Metaphors: Crisis and Education in Portuguese Secondary Schools | |
| 18.05-18.30 | Conclusion |
Please find a pdf-version of our program here.