1st Global Conference
Tuesday 3rd July - Thursday 5th July 2007
Mansfield College, Oxford
Conference Programme, Abstracts and Papers
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.1.5b)
Tuesday 3rd July
from 10:00
Registration
11.00
Welcome and Opening Words
Rob Fisher Phil Fitzsimmons
11.30
Session 1: Codes from the Past to the Present
Chair: Phil Fitzsimmons
Ilia Roubanis
Making Authority Visible: From Imperial Seals to National Emblem
Karen Sands-O’Connor
‘Simiya’: Visual Literacy, Cultural Identity, and the Case
of British Picture Books about the West Indies
12.30 - Lunch
14.15
Session 2: The Mind and Meaning
Chair: Stephen Snyder
Jayme Jacobson and Gregory Turner-Rahman
Visual Intelligence: Bridging the Gap from Visual Literacy to Visual
Reasoning
Ian Marley
Dyslexia the Hidden Truth Revealed: Discovering Language and Meaning
Franci Greyling
Tracking Creative Creatures: An Interdisciplinary Investigation into
the Creative Process
15.45
Tea/Coffee Break
16.15
Session 3: Frames and Focus
Chair: Daniel Rhia
Barbra McKenzie
Re-framing Primary School Visual Literacy: Enrichment from Interdisciplinary
Approaches
Phil Fitzsimmons
The Frames, Foramens and Fistulas of the Graphic Novel: An Adolescent
View of Visual Literacy in Action
17.45
Wine Reception
19.00
Dinner
Wednesday 4th July
09.00
Session 4: Masks and Meaning, Icons and Identity
Chair: Barbra McKenzie
Sarah Gilmartin
The Masks of Performance: Art’s Aesthetic and Social Representation
in Ingmar Bergman’s Fanny and Alexander
Isabel Andres
The Cut-and-Paste Queen: The Anti-Fascist Propaganda Through Photomontage
and the Grotesque in Virginia Woolf’s The Years
Iva Jevtic
'The Veil and the Veiled’: the Use of Image in Julian of Norwich's
Revelation of Love
10.30
Coffee
11.00
Session 5: Probing and Perceiving
Chair: Tracey Connolly
Primož Urbanč
Visual Art Education and Multisensory Artistic Experiences: Turning ‘Visual
Literacy’ into ‘Perceptual Literacy’
Ive Verdoodt
Film Choices for Screening Literacy: The ‘Pygmalion Template’ in
Teacher Education
Lisa DeBenedittis
Visuality, Embodied Experience, and the Designed Environment
12.30
Lunch
14.00 Concurrent Sessions
Session 6A: New Screens and Frames
Chair: Franci Greyling
Dalila Honorato
Consequences of Over Exposure to Billboards and Culture Jamming
Teaching Visual Literacy to students of Communication
Jorge Latorre
Jose de Souza
An Illustrated Review of How Motion is Represented in Static Instructional
Graphics
Session 6B: Changes and Challenges
Chair: Emma Jeffries
Elif Bezal
The “Eye/I” of Isolation in Forugh Farrokhzad’s The
House is Black
Sandra Sudjudi
Reading Change and Continuity within Images of Women
15.30
Tea/Coffee
16.00 Concurrent Sessions
Session 7A: Voices, Narratives and Soul
Chair: Bernadette McCarthy
Judit Varga
Rembrandt’s Self-portraits: The Insistence of the Visual over
the Autobiographical
Stephen Snyder
Dialogue in Art: Gombrich’s History of Pictorial Representation
and the End of Art
John Scoville
Warhol, Postmodernism and Reality
Session 7B: Learning to Learn
Chair: Ian Marley
Daniel Riha
The Development of Visual Literacy in Art Education
Desdemona McCannon
Visual Narrative and Informational Allegories- Character Based Learning
Materials for Children
Tracey Connolly
Using the Visual Arts to Enhance University Teaching and Learning
17.30
Sessions End
Thursday 5th July
09.00
Session 8: Seeing it Through
Chair: Jorge Latorre
Ora-Ong Chakorn
The Positive Use of Visual Aids in Thai Annual Reports in Time of Crisis:
Visual Literacy and the Creation of Positive Meaning
Lucía Tello
Movies: A Powerful Resource for Visual Literacy in Journalism Ethics
Emma Jefferies
Visual Engagement: Fostering Design Students’ Visual Engagement
using Personas
10.30
Tea/Coffee
11.00
Session 9: New Visions and New Perspectives
Chair: Penny Kinnear
Bernadette McCarthy
Visual Studies: An Evaluative Tool for the Images of Science
Sophia Diamantopoulou
Mapping meanings on a picture book’: a multi-modal, social semiotic
view of children’s visual work in an art gallery/school project
Farah Malik
Education for Tomorrow: Youth Design a Social Change Videogame
12.30
Lunch
14.00
Session 10: Ontology and Epistemology
Chair: Isabel Andres
Sule Okuroglu
Seeing is Believing(?) : How Metafictional Typography Challenges Formal
Realism
Tracey Bowen and Penny Kinnear
When Fish Look at Water: Recognizing How We Read Visual Texts
Dan Gabriel Simbotin
Ontological Perspectives on Image and the Imaginary
15.30
Tea
16.00
Development Meeting
16.30
Conference Close