Successful annual IMS colloquium
“In the past five years the IMS Centre has consolidated its national and international standing, systematized its day-to-day operations, considerably increased its external funding, and engaged vigorously in all kinds of educational endeavours.”
The quote is taken from the report “Five-year review of the research environment, accomplishments, and future plans of the Centre for Intermedial and Multimodal Studies at Linnaeus University” and it was one important point for discussion at the IMS colloquium in Malmö on 25-27 January which brought together around 30 participants.
- We are overwhelmed by the extremely positive, thoughtful and constructive response text by the reviewers Danuta Fjellestad (Uppsala) and Scott Rettberg (Bergen), says Jørgen Bruhn, leader of the research centre.
The reviewers recommend the Linnaeus University board to fund the centre for another 5-year period. They encourage IMS to continue to develop its vision and they are positive to the center’s strong visibility in different contexts nationally and internationally. Among the many positive notions was the new MA program “Media Cultures: Intermedial and Multimodal Studies”, and the way that IMS guest lectures, seminars, and other activities are efficiently woven into the program.
A highlight of the IMS colloquium was the lecture on literacy by Jesper Bremholm from Nationalt Videncenter for Læsning.
Irina Rajewsky from Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz lectured on inter- and transmediality research after the digital revolution, which intersected with many of IMS’s most central research inquiries. By tracing a historical overview of how the digital revolution of the 90s now has been succeeded by a “post” digital era, she stated that intermedial research of contemporary media culture faces some fundamental challenges.
Meeting in this informal way, but with an ambitious programme each year, is of great importance for the development of the Centre.
