Seminars
Linnaeus University Centre for Intermedial and Multimodal Studies has recurring seminars every term. You can find more information regarding where and when below.
NB: This is an IMS staff page, and it is not updated regularly.
Please go to our official IMS page for the most updated information about our research and activities, including detailed seminar descriptions:
IMS seminars
Linnaeus University use Zoom for e-meetings. You can participate via your computer, iPad, or mobile phone, just use the link below.
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The zoom-room is always open for e-meetings.
Seminars spring 2021
27 Jan, 10–12
[reserved for other IMS meetings]
3 Feb, 10–12
Discussions of research applications; welcome to submit!
10 Feb, 10–12
Guest: Eleni Timplalexi, "The transmedial journey of theatre performance going massively online during the COVID-19 pandemic: towards new intermedial forms of expression"
Contact: Lars Elleström
17 Feb, 10–12
Dagmar Brunow: Article draft, “Towards an archival study of screenplay versions: the role of screenwriting research for adaptation studies”
24 Feb, 10–12
[reserved for other IMS meetings]
3 March, 10–12
Guest: Ari Nykvist, ”Transmedia journalism for better storytelling in the digital age”
Contact: Beate Schirrmacher
10 March, 10–12
Spot available
17 March, 10–12
Spot available
24 March, 10–12
Gilbert Ambrazaitis: Project presentation
31 March, 10–12
[reserved for other IMS meetings]
7 April, 10–12
Spot available
14 April, 10–12
Guest: PhD student Li Ling Siew An eye for an eye? Or Lost in Transmediation? A Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis of Political Visual Arts of Civil Disobedience Movement in Hong Kong
Contact: Beate
21 April, 9–12, NB time!
Signe Kjaer Jensen: Final seminar, Musicalized Characters: A study of music, multimodality, and the empiric child perspective on mainstream animation
Opponent: Kim Christian Schrøder
28 April, 10–12
[reserved for other IMS meetings]
5 May, 10–12
Seminar on collaboration with the surrounding society
Beate Schirrmacher
5 May, 10-12
Nafiseh Mousavi, postdoc application presentation
19 May, 10–12
Lars Elleström:
Article draft, “Media Translation and Media Transformation”
The planned seminar with Mieke Bal is postponed
26 May, 10–12
[reserved for other IMS meetings]
2 June, 10–12
Guest: Sara Mygind, Project presentation
Contact: Helene Ehriander
9 June, 10–12
Guest: Alžbeta Jurkovičová, title TBA
Contact: Lars Elleström
Seminars 2020
Spring Term 2020
15 Jan
10–12 Dacke F3016V
Guest: Rong Ou: Project presentation
22 Jan
10–12, Dacke F3016V
Martin Knust: Article draft
5 Feb
10–12, Dacke F3016V
Guest: Charlie Järpvall: "Mediating information: The shape of forms, and other technologies of office work".
Contact: Jørgen Bruhn
12 Feb
10–12, Dacke F3016V
Beate Schirrmacher and Signe Kjaer Jensen: "Intermedial and multimodal approaches to Wagner´s Ride of the Valkyries"
19 Feb
10–12, Dacke F3016V
Diskussions of research applications
4 March
10–12, Dacke F3016V
Guest: Heidi Hart: "Sonic decay: Un-tuning in the age of climate crisis"
Organised by: Jørgen Bruhn
11 March
10–12, Dacke F3016V
Nafiseh Mousavi: Thesis chapter, “Syngué Sabour; The Patience Stone as novel and film: networks of adaptation in mapping out a collective self”
Opponent: Mike Classon Frangos
1 April
10–12, Dacke F3016V
Guest: Erik Erlandson: "Aisthesis and Semiosis: Negotiations between two paradigms of art in the welfare regime of literature"
15 April
10–12, Dacke F3016V
Signe Kjaer Jensen: "Modes of engagement: children's differing understandings of, and aesthetic involvement with, musicalized characters".
Opponent: Helene Ehriander
22 April
10–12, Dacke F3016V
Lea Wierød: "Medial conditions for social bonding through singing"
29 April
[reserved for other IMS meetings]
6 May
10–12, Dacke F3016V
Guest: Ana-Bianca Tudorica, exchange student from "Digital Interactive Arts Masters Program", Faculty of Theater and Film, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj - Napoca, Romania
Contact: Liviu Lutas
13 May
10–12, Dacke F3016V
Pedro Atá: Final seminar
Opponent: Anna Cabak Rédei
20 May
OBS new time! 15-17, Dacke F3016V
Guest: Thomas Leitch:
Organised by Niklas Salmose
3 June
10–12, Dacke F3016V
Letícia Vitral: Final seminar
Opponent: Alin Olteanu
Autumn Term 2020
2 Sept
10-12 Dacke
Final seminar: Nafiseh Mousavi. Opponent: Katja Krebbs
9 Sept
10-12 Dacke
Short presentations of research ideas.
Nafiseh Mousavi & Dagmar Brunow
16 Sept
10-12 Dacke
Kristoffer Holt: Key Dimensions of Alternative News Media
23 Sept
10-12 Dacke
Representation at The European Researcher's Night
7 Oct
10-12 Dacke
Guest: Stefan Iversen: Disruptive Discourse: Metanoic Reflexivity in Contemporary Rhetoric
14 Oct
10-12 Dacke
Guest: Andrea Pócsik: The Intermediality of the Peter Forgacs Holdings at Blinken Open Society Archive
21 Oct
10-12 Dacke
Lars Elleström: Article draft, symbolicity
4 Nov
10-12 Dacke
Nafiseh Mousavi: Article draft, “Multimodality of translational experiences in migratory situations”
11 Nov
10-12 Dacke
Discussions of research applications
18 Nov
10-12 Dacke
Guest: Admeire Santos Söderström: Brazilian animation film: Cultural warrant and the indexing method”
2 Dec
10-12 Dacke
Guest: Janneke Schoene: Article draft, ”Transmediations: Audio guides as complex transmedial formats“
9 Dec
10-12 Dacke
Beate Schirrmacher: Article draft
Seminars older than 2020
Seminars 2019
4 Sept
10-12 + 13-15 Fe3016V Dacke
Guest: Espen Aarseth and Ida Kathrine Hammeleff: On Gaming. Jørgen Bruhn
11 Sept
10-12, Fe3016V Dacke
DISA-IMS get together. Discussions of possible cooperation. Lars Elleström & Mikko Laitinen
2 Oct
10-12, Fe3016V Dacke
Lea Wierød: Article draft
16 Oct
10-12, Fe3016 Dacke
Gilbert Ambrazaitis: Children’s learning of language intonation
6 Nov
10–12, Dacke F3016V
Péter Makai
Article draft
13 Nov
10–12, Dacke F3016V
Emma Tornborg
Article draft
20 Nov
10-12, Fe3016V Dacke
Workshop: Transmediation of Truthfulness II. Beate Schirrmacher & Jørgen Bruhn
4 Dec
10-12, Fe3016 Dacke
Lars Elleström: Article draft, “The Modalities of Media II”
Seminars 2018
Wednesday 2018-09-12
10.00–12.00, Dacke (Fe3016) and Ny150
Wednesday 2018-09-19
10.00–12.00, Dacke (Fe3016) and Ny150
Péter Makai:
"Quarter/Life/Crisis: Evolutionary God Games and The Tyranny of Narrative Structure"
Wednesday 2018-09-26
Reserved for other IMS meetings
Wednesday 2018-10-03
10.00–12.00, Dacke (Fe3016) and Ny150
Ania Gutowska:
"Between Homage and Plagiarism: The Neo-Victorian Storyworld of Penny Dreadful"
Wednesday 2018-10-10
10.00–12.00, Dacke (Fe3016) and Ny150
Anna Sofia Rossholm and Beate Schirrmacher:
Strategies of Research Collaboration
Wednesday 2018-10-17
10.00–12.00, Dacke (Fe3016) and Ny150
Gilbert Ambrazaitis:
"Multimodal Prosodic Prominence: The Interplay of (Verbal) Pitch Accents and (Visual) Head and Eyebrow Movements in Swedish News Readings"
Wednesday 2018-10-24
10.00–12.00, Dacke (Fe3016) and Ny150
Eero Tarasti: "Existential Semiotics and Music: A New Approach to the Study of Signification and Communication"
Opponent: Martin Knust
Wednesday 2018-10-31
10.00–12.00, Dacke (Fe3016) and Ny150
Workshop
"Interrelations among different forms of human communication"
Wednesday 2018-11-07
10.00–12.00, Dacke (Fe3016) and Ny150
Beate Schirrmacher:
"Court Narratives"
Wednesday 2018-11-14
10.00–12.00, Dacke (Fe3016) and Ny150
(ISIS conference China)
Wednesday 2018-11-21
10.00–12.00, Dacke (Fe3016) and Ny150
Discussions of research applications; all are welcome to submit drafts.
Wednesday 2018-11-28
10.00–12.00, Dacke (Fe3016) and Ny150
Annett Wolf and Anthony Scully from Grants and Innovation Office inform about EU grants
Wednesday 2018-12-05
10.00–12.00, Dacke (Fe3016)
Lars Elleström: Identifying, Construing and Bridging over Media Borders
Wednesday 2018-12-12
10.00–12.00, Dacke (Fe3016)
Ana Munari:
"Tendencies in Contemporary Brazilian Literature: Transtextuality and Intermediality"