The programme for the conference is available below. Delegates are listed according to the session in which they appear. Clicking on the Session Title will take you to the abstracts (where available) for that session. Each delegate is listed according to their affiliation.
Final Conference Programme (1.6a)
Monday 30th June 2008
from 12.30
Registration
13:30
Welcome and Opening Words
Rob Fisher and Phil Fitzsimmons
14.00
Session 1: Visual Literacy in Focus
Chair: Phil Fitzsimmons
Graciela Ormezzano
Learning from Photographs: Aesthetic Education and Visual Literacy
Jane Tormey
Peripheral Vision: Teleology and Photographic Literacy
Roger Archibald
The Camera As Prosthesis
15.30
Tea
16.00
Session 2: From Issues to Elements
Chair: Aaron Koh
Katharina Lobinger
Different Images – Different Literacies. A Theoretic Approach Towards the Understanding of Mass Media Images
Jan Connelly
Not just Visual Literacy but Critical Visual Literacy: Pedagogical Tools for the Classroom
Phil Fitzsimmons
The Blue Page: Visual Literacy as Self, Sense and Sentiment
Collator: Dimitrios Politis
17.30
Notice and Announcements
Wine Reception
18.30
Dinner
Tuesday 1st July 2008
09.00
Session 3: Text and Texture of the Visual
Chair: Courtney Coyne-Jensen
Dimitrios Politis and Petros Panaou
Imaging Words: Visual and Textual Literacy Combined
Donna Foley
The Social Semiotics of Australian Writing
Taunya Tremblay
Visual Texts and Media Literacy: Cultivating Critical Conversations
10.30
Coffee
11.00
Session 4: Thinking and Thought in Education
Chair: Jan Connelly
Aaron Koh
Researching the Visual in Education Research: From the ‘Linguistic Turn’ to ‘Visual Turn’ in Education Policy Documents
Jaroslav Vancat
Supporting Creativity with EduArt
Barbra McKenzie
Flowcharting and Visual Literacy: Exploring Tacit Knowledge through the Visual
12.30
Lunch
14.00
Session 5: Culture and the Contexts of the Visual
Chair: Barbra McKenzie
Joe Grixti
Transforming Literary Classics into Visual Spectacles: The Impact of Consumerism on Perceptions of High Culture
Beatriz Tomši? ?erkez & Primož Urban?
Attention and the Visual World in the “Society of Risk”
Shoshana Sitton
Visual Literacy for Deciphering Cultural Identity: The New Central Bus Station in Tel-Aviv
15.30
Tea
16.00
Session 6: Across the Visual Spectrum
Chair: Roger Archibald
Courtney Coyne-Jensen
Towards Embodied Visual Literacy Praxes: Drawing within Experience
Tatiana Bolivar-Lebedeff
The Value of Visual Literacy Practices in the Education of the Deaf Students: The Experience of Deaf Teachers
Jennifer Kamp
Threat or Thrill in Grovedale: An Artist’s Response to the Changing Nature of Place
Collator: Holger Briel
17.30
Sessions End
Wednesday 2nd July 2008
09.00
Session 7: Frames and Fistulas
Chair: Donna Foley
Iva Jevtic
Between Word and Image: Benjamin’s Dialectical Image as Species of Space
Marek Zasempa
The Picture Within and Beyond the Frame: Limits and Limitless in Visual Representation
Chi-Ying Yu
GEICO Cavemen: A Contemporary Tale of Mediated Other and Political Correctness
10.30
Coffee
11.00
Session 8: Visual Literacy as Identity
Chair: Joe Grixti
Holger Briel
Club Visuals as Liminal Art
Ryan Burt
Playing Indian” for My People The Sioux: Luther Standing Bear’s Literary Fancy Dancing and America’s Imperial Imagination
Joanna Kidman
Through Our Eyes: Cultural Identity and Visual Literacy amongst Maori Youth in New Zealand
12.30
Lunch
14.00
Session 9: Language Facets of the Visual
Chair: Iva Jetvic
Chris McCauley
Demystifying the Visual: Post-secondary Visual Literacy
Adéle Nel
The Vocabulary of Ageing: Image and Word in Antjie Krog’s Body Bereft
Shirin Zubair
The Grammar of Visual Design : Semiotics in Popular Pakistani Women’s Magazines
Collator: Tatiana Bolivar-Lebedeff
15.30
Tea and Sessions End
Thursday 3rd July 2008
09.00
Session 10: From the Past to the Present
Chair: Shoshana Sitton
Danielle Magnusson
Political Spaces: Medieval Marginalia and Chaucer’s Nun’s Priest’s Tale
Sibylle Baumbach
Facing Medusa, or How to Visualize the Unrepresentable
Jorge Calles Santillana
Radical Media Literacy For a Radical Democracy
10.30
Coffee
11.00
Session 11: Identity and Symbol
Chair: Joanna Kidman
Kenneth Marunowski
Constructing a European Identity through Visual (and Verbal) Representation
Malcolm Cumberbatch
Carnvial as Visual Literacy in the African Diaspora
Mark Ighile
The Art of Seeing: An Exploration of Visual Components in Performance Literature
12.30
Lunch
14.00
Session 12: New Beginnings and New Lines
Chair: Barbra Mckenzie
Carolina Ferrer
The Forking Paths of Open Your Eyes and Vanilla Sky
Oksana Cheypesh
Masculinity and Technology in North American Comics
Ourania Kouvou
Child Art and Modernity
Collator: Ryan Burt
15.30
Tea
16.00
Development meeting
16.30
Conference Close
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