4th Global Conference
Wednesday 7th July 2010 – Friday 9th July 2010
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
Wednesday 7th July 2010
from 12.30
Registration
13.30
Welcome and Opening Words
Phil Fitzsimmons
14.00
Session 1: Mapping the Visual Mind
Chair: Phil Fitzsiommons
From Inquiry to Practice—Drawing a Course
Penny Kinnear
The Contemporary Visual Literacy of Mapped Place
Jill O’Sullivan
Understanding Migrant Visualizations of Home and Family: Mapping the Terrain
John Watters
15.30
Coffee
16.00
Session 2: Seeing the Visual in Different Frames
Chair: Sheila Sandapen
Modular Composition and Japanese Visual Literacy
Sean McGovern
Therapeutic and Empowering Aspects of Visual Literacy Programmes in Israeli High Schools
Jonathan Friesem
Layers of Meaning: Children’s Understanding of Cinematic Literacy
Phil Fitzsimmons and Edie Lanphar
17.30
Notices and Announcements
17.40
Wine Reception
18.30
Dinner
Thursday 8th July 2010
09.00
Session 3: How We See It
Chair: Sofia Pantouvaki
Beyond the Surface: A Social Semiotic Analysis of Images in Language and Literature Textbooks Relating to National Identity Formation
Natasa Lackovic
Visual Literacy and Visual Literature: Literarts that have to be Learnt
Teresa Noguera
The Concept and Tools of Visual Literacy’ + ‘Teaching Visual Literacy’ + ‘Interpreting Elements and Examples of Visual Literacy’
Courtney Coyne-Jensen
10.30
Coffee
11.00
Session 4: I See and I Understand
Chair: Sean McGovern
Visualising Theatre: Scenography from Concept to Design to Realisation
Sofia Pantouvaki
Behind the Screen: Accessing Digital Texts
Heather Mullin
“Another Gay Sunshine Day”: Embodying New Social Semiotics in Gay Anarchistic Comedies
Gilad Padva
12.30
Lunch
14.00
Session 5(a): New Visions and Viewing
Chair: Gilad Padva
The Intricacies of Visual Referencing in Computer Games
Barbara Barroso
Critical Visual Literacy: Inside Virtual Worlds for the Young and Youth
Jan Connelly
Building Opportunities for Learner-Centered Visual Literacy Development: A Technology Classroom Based Approach
Jane Pilling-Cormick
Session 5(b): Borders, Barriers and Visual Boroughs
Chair: Penny Kinnear
Visual Demarcations of Social Space in Traditional Japanese Culture
Lisa Nobeta
Representations of Cyprus: Impressions of Gender and Culture during British Rule (1878-1959)
Maria Photiou
Transnational Refugees and Participatory Visual Research
Zoe O’Reilly
15.30
Coffee
16.00
Session 6: Tracing Lines in a Changing World
Chair: Rosemary Johnston
Reading Gestures and Reading Codes: The Visual Literacy of Graffiti as both Physical/Performative Act and Digital Information Text
Tracey Bowen
Views from the Water’s Edge: The Impact of Images in Communicating Perspectives of Climate Change
Lisa Chandler
The Reaffirmation of the Embodied Experience of the Visual
Kerrie McCaw
17.30
Sessions End
Friday 9th July 2010
09.00
Session 7: Conceptualizing the Visual in Studies of Visual Literacy: Challenges and Shortcomings
Chair: John Watters
Visual Literacy: The Meaning of Form and Composition
Robert Craig
Conceptualizing the Visual in Studies of Visual Literacy: Challenges and Shortcomings
Michael Griffin
Blurring the Boundaries: Creating New Genres?
Bev Croker
10.30
Coffee
11.00
Session 8(a): Visual Facets and Fistulas
Chair: Ria McCaw
Visual Pathography: Graphic representations of illness in David B.’s “Epileptic
Evita Lykou
Cracking Galton: Re- Reading Galton’s Composite Photography
Suzanne Bailey
Childhood Depression and the Picture Book: Shaun Tan’s The Red Tree
Deborah Pike
Session (8b): Are you Reading Me? Visually speaking
Jan Connelly
Towards an Understanding of Creative Block
Josephine Telfer
Visual Credibility and Poetic Faith: The Technical and Fictional Literacies of You Suck at Photoshop
Craig Stroupe
Predication in Actu and in Potentia: Probing into its Aesthetics
Flutur Troshani
12.30
Lunch
14.00
Session 9: Visual Fores into the Liminal
Chair: Jonathan Friesem
Images of the Excluded : Ideology, Interpretation and Context
Jill Fernie-Clarke
Body Traces: The Present Absence
Ria McCaw
Cartoon Fiction and Divine Truth: Views of Culture, Identity and Mysticism in Hergé’s Tintin in Tibet
Peter D’Sena and Tim Myatt
15.30
Coffee
16.00
Session 10(a): Across Time and Place: Every picture tells a story don’t it?
Chair: Courtney Coyne-Jensen
Gibran’s Narratives: The Textual and the Visual
Otared Haidar
The Nation as Graphic Surface: Dreaming, Story and Visual Identity
Rosemary Johnston
Critical Reading of Animation Films for Children
Rachel Shalita
Session 10(b): Borders of Viewing: Descriptions and demarcations
Chair: Deborah Pike
H is for Heterotopias: Descartes’s Fountains and the Modern Cineplex
Laura Balladur
Skin Deep: Visual Representations of White/British Identity and Black/Foreign Identity in Commercially Successful Popular Cinema
Sheila Sandapen
Precious Jones: Visual Text, Visual Reader
Michelle Keita
17.30
Development Meeting and Closing Remarks
18.00
Conference Ends
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