3rd Global Conference
Tuesday 14th July 2009 – Thursday 16th July 2009
Mansfield College, Oxford
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 (v.1.3e)
Tuesday 14th July 2009
from 12.30
Registration
13.30
Welcome and Opening Remarks
Rob Fisher and Phil Fitzsimmons
14.00
Session 1: Places, Persons and Processes
Chair: Phil Fitzsimmons
Andri Savva
Young Children’s Responses to Visual Images: Preferences, Functions and Origins
Jeanine Breaker
Regarding Preservation of Nuance: Visual Literacy in the Perception of the Human Body
Mark Thorsby
Reading the Visual: Language, Body, & Space
Thomas Forget
Abstract Perception:Graphic Literacy and the Limits of Pictures
16.00
Tea
16.30
Session 2: Across Visual Lines
Chair: Sofia Pantouvaki
Bev Croker
Reading the Contemporary Picture Book: Negotiating Change
Phil Fitzsimmons
Voices in the Dark: Unpacking ‘/Twilight/’ through the Facets of Visual Paratext
Kerrie McCaw
Thinking and Talking with Alice
18.00
Notices and Announcements
Wine Reception
18.45
Dinner
Wednesday 15th July 2009
09.00
Session 3: Outsider and Insider Visions
Chair: Monika Raesch
Boris Goesl
The Inner Eye and the Outer Space: Planetaria as Schools for Visual Literacy
Mary Anne (Edgeworth) Drinkwater
Radical Educational Policy: Critical Democratic Pedagogy and the Reinfusion of the Arts in Secondary Schools
Desdemona McCannon
Visualising the Essay: Using Information Graphics to Facilitate Critical Thinking Within an Art School
10.30
Coffee
11.00
Session 4A: Places of Seeing and Being
Chair: Bev Croker
Jan Connelly
Critiquing the Visual via Semiotic Tools Inside the Image Saturated World of Advertising. Learning through the Mobilization of the Iconic Popular Culture Programme: ‘The Gruen Transfer’ (ABC)
Marina Mohdarif
Young Learners’ Second Language Visual Literacy Practices
Amanda Hufford
Architectural Analysis Portfolio – Drawn Knowledge A Case Study
Session 4b:Creating Culture and Consciousness
Chair: Jeanine Breaker
Katherine Arbuckle
“This looks like a hat. I don’t know what it is.” Investigating pictorial literacy in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Laura Trafí-Prats
ABC Milwaukee: The Visual Culture Literacies of Growing up Urban
Sofia Pantouvaki
The Visual and Social Semiotics of Toilet Signs in Greece
12.30
Lunch
14.00
Session 5a: The New View
Chair: Tracey Bowen
Heather Mullin
Go To, Select and Click: Critical Inquiry Online
Senka Anastasova
Exploring Digital Practices of Looking
Sandra Schamroth Abrams
Keeping an Eye on the Game: Video Gaming, Visual Literacy and Cultural Identity
Session 5b: Seeing Across Even More Divides
Chair: Boris Goesl
Leila Tafreshi Motlagh
How the Gossip Industry Enjoys Visual Literary?
Jill O’Sullivan
Chorography: Reflections on its Place in Visual Literacy and Creative Arts
Oksana Cheypesh
Superheroes as Models of Cultural Synthesis
15.30
Tea
16.00
Session 6a: Defining, Refining and Realigning
Chair: Heather Mullin
Monika Raesch
The Interplay of Visual Literacy and Teaching Approaches
Hyeon-Kyeong Kim
Open the Picturebook and Open the Children’s Heart: Visual Literacy as a Therapy
The Materializing Gaze: Gaydar and Cruising as Queer Visual Literacies
Gilad Padva
Joseph Reylan B. Viray
Group Painting Session: Pedagogical Tool for Cultivating Peace and Oneness among Students of Various Ethnic Orientations at the Polytechnic University of the Philippines
Session 6b: Discourses, Definitions and Delights
Chair: Penny Kinnear
José Gabriel Ferreras Rodríguez
Celluloid Obsessions: Martin Scorsese’s Visual DNA
Christa Holm Vogelius
The Slight Pencil’s Witchery: Sigourney’s Ecphrastic Model of Viewership
Esra Plumer
The Comfort of Standing Next to Walls
Monsterrat Rifa-Valls
Screening Subjectivity: A Narrative Analysis of Learning Visual Literacies
18.30
Sessions End
Thursday 16th July
09.00
Session 7a: Icons, Inquiry and Intersections
Chair: Brian Finch
Rick Instrell
A Plain Language Guide to Multimodal Literacy
Tracey Bowen and Penny Kinnear
Visualizing Processes of Inquiry
Shoshi Waksman
The Weave of Text and Picture: Iconic and Linguistic Resources in the Process of Meaning Construction
Session 7b: Choosing and Chasing a New View
Chair: Senka Anastasova
Estefanía Sanz and Pablo Romero
On Visual Kinderculture: Taiwanese, Japanese and Spanish Children Depicting Their Leisure Habits
Rachel Shalita
The Gaza War as reflected Visually in Israeli Daily Journals
Emek Çaylı Rahte
Gender and Visual Literacy: Women’s /Media Watch Group/ (MEDIZ) in Turkey
10.30
Coffee
11.00
Session 8: Places of Being and Seeing
Chair: Desdemona McCannon
Yael Krimerman-Naveh
Moral Education and Visual Literacy
Michele Paule
‘I am a smart girl but I don’t look like that at all’: Televisual Constructs of Genius and Gender
Evangelia Moula
Comics in Education: Advocating Visual Literacy – Reinforcing Intercultural Discourse
12.30
Lunch
14.00
Session 9: Reading Frames and Fractures
Chair: Jan Connelly
Brian Finch
Framing Children’s Film Viewing Practices
George S. Larke-Walsh
Visual Literacy in Film: Teaching First Year Undergraduates how to read film using in-class and web-based materials
Faye Ran
Reading Between The Lines — Visual Literacy and Film
Jane Mills
Screen Literacy, Its Social and Educational Implications and Applications
16.00
Tea
16.30
Unpacking the Themes, Development Meeting
17.15
Conference Close
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