5th Global Conference (2011)

5th Global Conference

Friday 8th July 2011 – Sunday 10th July 2011
Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom

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

Friday 8th July 2011
From 12.30
Registration

13.30
Welcome and Opening Words
Phil Fitzsimmons

14.00
Session 1: Reflecting on the Visual Image
Chair: Phil Fitzsimmons

Imagination as a Tool for Visual Literacy
Kerrie McCaw & Susan Paterson

Foundations of Visual Literacy: Historic Preservation and Image Management
Margot Note

The Frame and the Window: Rhetoric value in the visual field
Alexandra Ai Quintas

15.30
Coffee

16.00
Session 2: Refracting Visual Literacy
Chair: Margot Note

Towards Identity: Between the outer visual and inner seeing
Phil Fitzsimmons and Edie Lanphar

Drawing on Art Praxis(practice): Inculcating visual thinking within everyday pedagogy
Tracey Bowen

Visual Literacy and Architectural Design Education
Sevinc Kurt

17.30
Notices and Announcements

17.40
Wine Reception

Saturday 9th July 2011
09.00
Session 3: Reflecting Visual Literacy Across the Globe
Chair: Sevinc Kurt

National Colour Stereotypes: Overcoming the “White Greek Island House” Myth
Sofia Pantouvaki

Visual Translations: Visual Semiotics and the Display of Indigenous Australian Art
Lisa Chandler

The Creation of New Values in Japanese Texts Through the Use of Multimodal Communication
Kaori Okuizumi & Noriko Okamoto

10.30
Coffee

11.00
Session 4a: The Flicker of Visual Literacy
Chair: Lisa Chandler

Title Reading the Image: Visual literacy and the Films of Jean Rouch
Rayma Watkinson

Female Enclosure, Surveillance, and Prurient Expectations of the Contemporary Audience: Visualizing the Medieval in Newby’s Film Anchoress
Rebecca Flynn

Cinema, Media Literacy, Filmic Languages and European Visual Memories
Vitor Reia-Baptista

Session 4b: Depictions of Depth
Chair: Christopher Carter

Images for Deification: Visual Literacy in Marguerite Porete’s Mirror of Simple Souls.
Pablo Garcia Acosta

Visual Literacy in Development Communication: Pictorial illustration preferences in a low-literate target group
Rolf Gaede

Spectral Sights: Law to Paranormal Visuals and Visions in The Eye
Liew Kai Khiun

12.30
Lunch

14.00
Session 5(a): Reimaging and Reimagining
Chair: Vitor Reia-Baptista

The Reimag[e]ined Prince: Re-Examining “Hamlet” in Nicki Greenberg’s “Hamlet: Staged on the Page”.
Laura-Jane Maher

Identity and Visual Culture in David Wiesner’s The Three Pigs and Art & Max
Lesley Clement

Visual Literacy in Literature and Advertising: Interferences between Visual Strategies in Portuguese Concrete Poems of the 70s and Contemporary Ads
Elsa Simões Lucas Freitas

Session 5(b): Refocusing and Realigning
Chair: Desdemona McCannon

Technology and visual literacy in “underdeveloped” contexts: a case from 1920′s Latin America
Emilio Irigoyen

The Spiritual Diagram. Theology and Didactics in Saint John of the Cross
Anna Serra Zamora

Two Lessons in Reading the Picture: John Ruskin vs. Roger Fry
Aleksandra Piasecka

15.30
Coffee

16.00
Session 6: Visual Literacy Through the Looking Glass
Chair: Anna Serra Zamora

The Vestibule of The Text: Explorations of Paratext
Bev Croker

Contemporary Visual Literacy: Advertising and retail design
Graham Cairns

The Changing Face of Poverty: A multimodal perspective
Michele Milner

17.30 Sessions End

Sunday 10th July 2011
09.00
Session 7: Engendering Visual Facets
Chair: Bev Croker

Women as the Visualized Other: Decoding art, advertisements and images of women
Wendy C. Turgeon

Dark but Comely: Women of Color in Turkish Films
Aundreta Conner-Farris

The Spectator Who Knew Too Much: Knowledge and Knowingness in Wes Anderson’s “Rushmore”
Pansy Duncan

10.30
Coffee

11.00
Session 8: ‘Looking’ At Landscapes and Visual Geography
Chair: Desdemona McCanon

The Face of the Earth: Visual literacy of understanding the landscape
Jeanine Breaker

Title Outside/In’: Plato’s Cave and the Manufactured Image
John Pratt

Postcards and Polaroid Apps: Critical Multimodality in Distributed Learning Environments
Danielle Zuvela

12.30
Lunch

14.00
Session 9: Are You Reading ‘Us’?
Chair:

Vernacular Design and the Illustration of British identity
Desdemona McCannon

Is New Media Portraiture a Contemporary Response to the Human Desire to be Immortalized?
Suzanne Gabrielle Ellis

The Implied Viewer. Visual Literacy in Collins and Contemporary Fiction
Ben De Bruyn

15.30
Coffee

16.00
Session 10: Us and Them on the Smaller Scale
Chair: Ben De Bruyn

Paper Title Visually Reading ‘The Sopranos’: “You are all white professional males between 25 and 45”
Frieda Pattenden

What’s so Good about Being There?: Negotiating the Audio Visual Chasm between Attending the Live Event and Reading the Televised Media Sport Experience
Margaret Henley

Rhetoric of Ruins: Camilo José Vergara, Walter Benjamin, and the Politics of Urban Photography
Christopher Carter

17.30
Development Meeting and Closing Remarks

18.00
Conference Ends