Linnaeus University Centre for Intermedial and Multimodal Studies (IMS)
Understanding an evolving world of human communication through multimodality and intermediality
Why research on Intermediality and Multimodality matters
We are encountering new ways of combining texts, images and sounds, which we send and share in ways previously unimaginable. The boundaries between proximity and distance, original and copy, human and machine, private and public are now more fluid and complex.
The development is changing the way we learn, work, socialize, communicate and create knowledge.
Intermediality and multimodality are both flexible and nuanced tools that help us understand the mix of resources and media in all forms of communication. The centre's interdisciplinary approach brings together the fields of intermediality, multimodality, and media research, making the research at the Center unique and important in a rapidly evolving world.
Current Activities
Lars Elleström Memorial Fellowship
Every year the Centre invites a guest lecturer to honor the memory its founder, Lars Elleström. The guest lecturers aim to foster new research in intermedial and multimodal studies, illustrating how one can both follow in Elleström’s footsteps and challenge his principles.
Lars Elleström (1960–2021) was a Professor of Comparative Literature at Linnaeus University, Sweden. He founded the Linnaeus University’s Centre for Intermedial and Multimodal Studies (IMS) in 2014, and was leader of the Centre until he passed away. Elleström’s medial framework on media types and media modalities significantly influences much of the ongoing research, which still builds upon the critical legacies of its founder.
The critical legacy of Elleström
The study of media interrelations is a critical area of research that explores how different forms of media – ranging from personal bodies and their extensions to written texts and films – interact in ways that profoundly impact the production and transfer of meaning. By refining the theoretical frameworks needed to analyze these interrelations, IMS researchers aim to address gaps in earlier models that have often been too focused on verbal communication and not sufficiently nuanced.
As media continue to shape society at every level, from personal interactions to public discourse, the ongoing developments of new media forms make the study of media interrelations both timely and crucial. While the research seldom provide immediate solutions it seeks to contribute to the long-term effort to better understand and navigate the complexities of human communication. Elleström’s framework provides concepts that tease out the fluid and often blurry relations between media, it enables valid comparisons between dissimilar media types, and it connects intermedial research with other forms of communication analysis.
Interested? Please contact Helena Rydén, the Centre's Administration Officer.
Research Visit Programme
Do you focus on topics related to intermediality and multimodality in the humanities and social sciences?
IMS invites scholars from all over the world at all career levels, from PhD candidates to full professors. You can visit the Centre for a period of between two weeks until three months.
If you are accepted to the programme, we expect you to participate in the Centre's activities and research groups. This includes presenting at seminars and taking part in workshops and other events.
Application
It’s preferable if you are sponsored by a member of the Centre. If so, the member can submit your application anytime during the year, and it usually takes about two months to process. If no direct collaboration is possible, but the visit would still be valuable (e.g., for PhD students), you can contact the Director, Jørgen Bruhn.
The visiting positions are unpaid. Visitors must have a salary or grant from their home institution. The Centre offers office space and access to its research activities, as well as university library services. In some cases, the Centre can provide basic accommodation and cover travel and extra living costs.
Interested? Please contact Helena Rydén, the Centre's Administration Officer.
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Individual Fellowships (MSCA-IF)
You can visit us with a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Individual Fellowships (MSCA-IF). You are welcome to submit a proposal for participating in a workshop. The call for proposals opens approximately six months prior to the MSCA-IF deadline.
The workshop and ensuing contacts with our Grants and Innovation Office (GIO) should lead to an application for funding from MSCA-IF, allowing you to fulfil a research project and participate in activities at the Centre.
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Research Clusters
The transdisciplinary research clusters explore how intermedial and multimodal communication shapes current social challenges.
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IMS Green: Mediations of Climate and Ecological Emergency IMS Green is a transdisciplinary platform for research, education and action related to the mediation of climate and ecological emergency.…
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Intermediality, Multimodality and News (IMS News) This research cluster explores the role of professional journalism and news in a digitized society asking how the flexible combination of modes and…
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Mediating Cultural Memory (IMS Memory) IMS Memory is a transdisciplinary research cluster dedicated to the study of the mediation of cultural memory. Bringing together research from different fields,…
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Intermediality, Multimodality and Learning (IMS Literacy) IMS Literacy explores how intermedia and multimodal knowledge can be developed into creative, inclusive and flexible teaching methods.
Research projects
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Doctoral project: Playing Animal How are animal perspectives produced in computer games? And how does it affect the players?
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Project: A model for norm-critical and inclusive multi-modal communication for users with a foreign mother tongue This project works with developing and testing a norm-creative method for making…
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Project: Alternative Media Logic Alternative Media Logic examines the appeal and impact of alternative media on the Swedish media landscape and the conditions of democratic discourse. "Media logic"…
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Project: Between Facts and Stories This project explores how journalistic narrative strategies convey information and provide understanding of current events. The challenges of fake news,…
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Project: Communication across Media Borders: The Limitations and Possibilities of Transmediation The project investigates how meaning is changed – corrupted or enhanced – when travelling among…
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Project: Crossing Narrative Boundaries: Film and the Other Media This project analyzes novel and creative approaches in film and mediality at large. We aim to contribute to the reflection on media…
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Project: Elin Wägner on the Screen Elin Wägner (1882-1949) was a Swedish writer, journalist, suffragette, peace activist and environmentalist. Less examined is her relationship with cinema. She is a…
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Project: Future Food Cultures in the Anthropocene The dominant global diet is a major contributor to the climate crisis. A transformation faces considerable practical problems, but is also a major…
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Project: Instruments of Repair Our project is about artists who place musical instruments outdoors, burning them or letting them decay in ponds, playing already abandoned instruments, and/or making…
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Project: Intermedial Ecocriticism: Transmediating the Anthropocene This project responds from a humanities perspective to an urgent societal challenge: how can the Anthropocene ecological crisis be…
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Project: Intermediality in the Romanian New Wave in Cinema The Romanian New Wave in Cinema consists of a number of films from 2001 onwards, forming a specific genre, whose main characteristics are raw…
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Project: Learning to focus – How Stockholm and Skåne Swedish children produce and comprehend contrastive intonation Speakers make use of speech melody or intonation in order to highlight the most…
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Project: Mediations of nostalgia This study is the first of its kind, investigating the aesthetic and intermedial potential of nostalgia.
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Project: New Developments in Eastern European Film This project examines new developments in Eastern European film, especially what has come to be called New Romanian Cinema.
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Project: Potentials for students' and teachers' meaning making through different resources This interdisciplinary project aims at attaining a deeper understanding of how content can be mediated…
Written about IMS
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Continued funding of the Centre for Intermedial and Multimodal Studies (IMS) News
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Successful annual IMS colloquium News
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New book aims to be the standard work in intermediality research News
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Unique conference on media, emotions and conspiracy theories brought together researchers from around the world News
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Four new graduate schools in the humanities and social sciences News
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Seven new PhD students in Global Humanities News
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‘Star Wars’ composer John Williams brought classical Hollywood music back to life News
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SEK 15 million from Formas to five researchers at Linnaeus University News
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Two cutting-edge research centres get continued funding News
Publications
- Open-access publications available in DiVA (un-published conference papers excluded). The majority of our open-access publications are to be found here.
- Additional open-access publications available externally to DiVA. A few open-access publications are not uploaded to DiVA, but can be found here instead.
- Publications in English (un-published conference papers excluded).
- All publications and conference papers in English.
- All publications and conference papers in all languages.
Staff
- Gilbert Ambrazaitis Associate Professor
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- Emilio Audissino Associate professor
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- Jørgen Bruhn Professor
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- Dagmar Brunow Professor
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- Gunilla Byrman
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- Helene Ehriander Professor
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- Erik Erlanson Associate senior lecturer
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- Nina Ernst Senior lecturer
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- Anne Holm Senior lecturer
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- Kristoffer Holt Professor
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- Martin Knust Associate professor
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- Liviu Lutas Professor
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- Corina Löwe Associate Professor, pro dean
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- Niklas Salmose Professor
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- Beate Schirrmacher ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
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PhD Students
- Yagmur Atlar Doctoral student
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- Matilda Davidsson Doctoral student
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- Emma Flodqvist Doctoral student
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- Maria Hasfeldt Long Doctoral student
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- Anna Ishchenko Doctoral student
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- Martin van der Linden Doctoral student
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- Felicia Stenberg Doctoral student
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- Saana Sutinen Doctoral student
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Guest Researchers and Postdocs
2024
- Luca Diani (Guest PhD 2024)
- Alexandra Huang-Kokina (Guest reseacher 2024)
2023
- Panagiotis Zestanakis (Marie Curie postdoc 2023-)
- Yikun Wu (External postdoc 2023)
- Xiaoshang Shuiping (Guest researcher 2023)
- Heidi Hart (Guest researcher 2023)
- Young Min Kim (Visiting Professor 2023)
2022
- Anne Gjelsvik (Lars Elleström Guest Researcher 2022)
- Gibran de Souza (Guest PhD 2022)
- Giulia Bigongiari (Guest PhD 2022)
- Maddalena Carfora (Guest PhD 2022)
2021
- Elena Timplalexi (Guest Researcher 2021)
2020
- Péter Makai (External postdoc 2018-2020)
- Emma Tornborg (Associated researcher and postdoc 2015-2020)
- Lea Wierød (External postdoc 2018-2020)
2019
- Mieke Bal (Visiting Professor 2019)
- Fátima Chinita (External postdoc 2015-2019)
- Ania Gutowska (Marie Curie postdoc 2017-2019)
- Rong Ou (External postdoc 2019)
2018
- Ana Munari (External postdoc 2018)
Affiliated Researchers
- Per Bäckström Employee paid by the hour
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- Renaud de La Brosse Professor
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- Kristina Danielsson Professor
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- Annelie Ekelin Senior lecturer, head of department
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- Signe Kjaer Jensen
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- Ewa Bergh Nestlog Professor, Vice dean
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- Anders Åberg ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, VICE DEAN
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Research Network
Within Linnaeus University
- Center for Studies in Popular Culture (PoCuS) | lnu.se
- Fojo Media Institute
- Research environment: A Challenged Democracy
- Research environment: Digital Transformations
National
Within Europe
- University of Edinburgh. Intermediality: Literature, Film and the Arts in Dialogue
- University of Liège. CIPA - Centre Interdisciplinaire de Poétique Appliquée.
- Literature Among Media, Aarhus University
- Finnish Centre of Excellence in Research on Intersubjectivity in Interaction, University of Helsinki
- Nordic Network for Literature and Mediality
- Opera in Scandinavia, Sibelius Academy
- Institut für Kirchenmusik und Musikwissenschaft, University of Greifswald
Musik und Gender, Hochschule für Theater, Musik und Medien, Hanover - Research Group in Media Studies, Jan-Noël Thon as Chair, University of Tübingen
- Music and Media, International Musicological Society, Utrecht University
- The RECODE Team, University of Sheffield
- Metaphors in end-of-life care (MELC), Lancaster University
- Research group in Intermediality, Agnes Pethö as Chair, Sapientia University
- Research group in Film and Intermediality, Claudiu Turcus as Chair, Babes-Bolyai University
- The Frankfurt Memory Studies Platform
- Multimodalitätsforschung in Bremen - Universität Bremen (uni-bremen.de)
- Journalistisches Seminar Mainz (uni-mainz.de)
Worldwide
- Department for Music and Theatre Studies, Maseno University
- National Institute of Education, Nanayang Technological University
- Iconicity research group, Federal University of Juiz de Fora
- Iconicity in Language and Literature
- Inter-Disciplinary.Net
- International Society for the Study of Self Injury
- Screenwriting Research Network
- Word and Music Association Forum
Expert Panel
IMS has arrangements with several external, internationally acknowledged scholars, referred to as our 'expert panel', working within a range of disciplines of relevance to the developing fields of intermediality and multimodality.
The individual members of the expert panel are for example called upon as advisors when new IMS-founding applications have to be developed, or as guest presenters at our IMS seminars, doctoral courses and internal colloquiums and research workshops.
- Ágnes Pethö: Professor of Film Studies, Sapientia University
- Anne Gjelsvik: Professor of Film Studies, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
- Asbjørn Grønstad: Professor, Department of Information Science and Media Studies, University of Bergen
- Bridgette Wessels: Professor in the Sociology of Inequalities (Sociology), University of Glasgow
- Carey Jewitt: Professor of Learning and Technology, University College London
- Chiel Kattenbelt: Associate Professor, Department of Media and Culture Studies, Universiteit Utrecht
- Christina Ljungberg: Titularprofessorin für Englische und Amerikanische Literaturwissenschaft, University of Zurich
- Claus Clüver: Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature
- Crispin Thurlow: Professor of Language and Communication, University of Bern
- Irina Rajewsky: Professor of Comparative Literature, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
- Jana Holšánová: Associate Professor in Cognitive Science, Lund University
- Jens Schröter: Professor, Medienkulturwissenschaft, Lehrstuhl der Universität Bonn
- João Queiroz: Professor, Institute of Arts and Design, Federal University of Juiz de Fora
- John A. Bateman: Professor of Applied Linguistics at the University of Bremen
- Kamilla Elliot: Professor of Literature and Media, Lancaster University
- Katherine Hayles: James B. Duke Distinguished Professor Emerita of Literature, Duke Trinity College of Arts & Sciences
- Kay O'Halloran: Chair Professor and Head of Department of Communication and Media, University of Liverpool
- Klaus Bruhn Jensen: Professor, Department of Communication, University of Copenhagen
- Marie-Laure Ryan: Literary scholar and critic
- Masako Hiraga: Professor of Linguistics, Rikkyo University
- Mieke Bal: Cultural theorist and critic, Video artist
- Morten Kyndrup: Professor, School of Communication and Culture - Aesthetics and Culture, Aarhus University
- Pentti Haddington: Professor of English Philology, University of Oulu
- Siglind Bruhn: Musicologist
- Sigrid Norris: Professor of Multimodal (Inter)action, Auckland University of Technology
- Thomas Leitch: Professor of English, Unidel Andrew B. Kirkpatrick Chair in Writing, University of Delaware
- W. J. T. Mitchell: Gaylord Donnelley Distinguished Service Professor, Department of English, Department of Art History, Department of Visual Arts, The University of Chicago
- Werner Wolf: Professor, Chair of English and General Literature, University of Graz
- Yvonne Spielmann: Professor, Institute of Professional Development
PhD Studies and Graduate Schools
PhD Studies and Graduate Schools
MIDWorld
IMS runs the interdisciplinary graduate school MIDWorld in collaboration with the Centre for Research in the Humanities and the research team in Multimodal Communication at Örebro University. The interdisciplinary graduate school MIDWorld provides emerging researchers in the Humanities theories and methods to critically analyse the mix of modes and media in our digital world.
FUDEM
IMS is collaborating with the research school The Future of Democracy: Cultural Analyses of Illiberal Populism in Times of Crises (FUDEM), a multi-disciplinary environment in which junior and senior researchers in cultural studies, ethnology, gender studies, and musicology are doing research on the variety of cultural forms in which illiberal populism reveals itself in times of crises. The researchers and PhD students are located at six Swedish universities: Linnæus University, Linköping University, Lund University, Södertörn University, University of Gothenburg and Uppsala University. FUDEM is financially supported by the Swedish Research Council.
Courses
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Climate Emergency StudiesCourse 30 credits
- Autumn 2025
- Växjö
- Distance learning
- Master’s level
- Full-time
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Cognitive Perspectives on Contemporary Media TextsCourse 15 credits
- Autumn 2025
- Växjö
- Campus
- Master’s level
- Half-time
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Cognitive Perspectives on Contemporary Media TextsCourse 15 credits
- Autumn 2025
- Växjö
- Distance learning
- Master’s level
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Digital NarrativeCourse 15 credits
- Spring 2025
- Växjö
- Distance learning
- Master’s level
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Digital NarrativeCourse 15 credits
- Spring 2025
- Växjö
- Campus
- Master’s level
- Half-time
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Film as a Research ToolCourse 7.5 credits
- Autumn 2025
- Växjö
- Distance learning
- Master’s level
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Film, archive and digital cultureCourse 7.5 credits
- Autumn 2025
- Distance learning
- Master’s level
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- 4FV701
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French. Intermediality in LiteratureCourse 7.5 credits
- Autumn 2025
- Distance learning
- Master’s level
- One-quarter-time
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Harry Potter and His WorldsCourse 7.5 credits
- Autumn 2025
- Växjö
- Campus
- Bachelor’s level
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Intermedial ecocriticismCourse 15 credits
- Spring 2025
- Växjö
- Campus
- Master’s level
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Intermedial ecocriticismCourse 15 credits
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- Växjö
- Distance learning
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Literature in GermanCourse 7.5 credits
- Autumn 2025
- Distance learning
- Bachelor’s level
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Media Relations: Literature, Comics, Film and ArtCourse 7.5 credits
- Autumn 2025
- Växjö
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Pop LiteratureCourse 7.5 credits
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- Distance learning
- Master’s level
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The comics medium – intermedial and multimodal aspectsCourse 15 credits
- Spring 2025
- Växjö
- Distance learning
- Master’s level
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Archive
Concluded Research
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Doctoral project: Musicalised Characters: A study of music, multimodality, and the empiric child perspective on mainstream animation This PhD thesis discusses how music and characters in popular,…
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Doctoral Project: The art of repeating oneself: Self-adaptation in the migratory context This doctoral project is a study of migrant authors who have adapted their own books into films, crossing…
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Project: Cinema between Media: Intermediality and the analysis of narrative film What happens if cinema is considered to be a mixed medium? How should one approach film analysis based on…
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Project: Conceptualising the Aurora: An exploration of performative understanding through interactive art This project was an artistic project based on the multimodal and interactive art installation…
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Project: Expecting a child in Arabic and Swedish! Norm-critical innovative design for interactive antenatal care Funding organisation: Vinnova Project description Conditions for health care in Sweden…
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Project: Gender Aspects of Screen Adaptations of the British Nineteenth-Century Female Literary Canon Contemporary popular culture is increasingly reliant on adaptation and other derivative types of…
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Project: Immigration critical alternative media and public discourse. Comparing Sweden, France and Germany The aim of this research project is to outline the interplay between new and established…
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Project: Information, Desinformation and Media System Change This research project aims to analyze and describe present changes in media and journalism. Given the diversity of the field, the…
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Project: Intermediality as a Part of Reading Improvement Activities in Swedish Upper Secondary School The aim of the project is to improve the pupils’ reading and writing competences in upper…
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Project: Luxury consumption and online reviewer discourse – the construction of knowledge, values and identities This project focuses on online reviews of luxury consumption, specifically reviews of…
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Project: Multilingual students' meaning making in the school subjects biology and physics The overall purpose of the project was to attain a deeper understanding of how science content in biology and…
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Project: Multispecies Storytelling in an Intermedial Perspective This environmental humanities project was done to seek new constellations inside and outside conventional academic and artistic circles…
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Project: On Narratives in Criminal Trials The aim of this project is to study narratives in authentic criminal trials and also in fictional contexts where trials are described.
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Project: Regpress 2 Providing quality and gaining efficiencies in regional press in the digital era.
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Project: Representation of Trials in other Media In this project, we investigate how questions of truth production are mediated when trials appear in literature, film, and news media. Project time:…
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Project: The Art of the Arts: Art-house Cinema Allegories of Creation as Authorial Discourse of a Coenaesthetic Intermedial Nature This research project is based on the idea that cinema is, in terms…
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Project: The Cultural Heritage of Moving Images Project information Project members: Dagmar Brunow Time frame: 2016-2018 More about the project The project "The Cultural Heritage of moving images"…
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Project: The Greatest Story Ever Told: Evolution’s journey across mediascapes The theory of evolution has been a scientific milestone in our understanding of humankind’s relationship to the rest of…
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Project: Transformations of transformations. An interdisciplinary study of pupils' meaning-making through transformations of representations in science classes The aim of this developmental and…
Seminars
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Hosting knowings: Intermedial practices of collaborative knowledge-making Open Lecuture
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What is Transmediation? IMS Seminar
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“Multimodality and space” with Professor Susanna Heldt Cassel IMS Seminar
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Guest seminar: Ulrike Schröder and Anna Ladilova IMS seminarie
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Theo van Leeuwen at the Multimodal Research Group, Örebro University IMS seminarie
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CANCELLED: The multimodal construction of analogue and digital space IMS seminarie
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Guest seminar: Fabien Arribert-Narce and Marion Schmid IMS seminarie
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Theory seminar: What is truthfulness and what are truth claims of media? IMS seminarie
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”What is a technical medium of display?” IMS seminarie
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Analyzing multimodal data using MAXQDA IMS seminarie
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The 2024 Lars Elleström Guest Lecture – Miriam Vieira IMS seminarie
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What are the relations between cross modal iconicity and the metaphor? IMS seminarie
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Multimodality, Intermediality and Societal challenges IMS seminarie
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Guest seminar: John Bateman IMS seminarie
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Guest seminar: John Bateman IMS seminarie
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Art, climate and community development: Meet the HULT residency fellows Ida Bencke and Kibandu Pello-Esso IMS seminar
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Art, climate and community development: Meet the HULT residency fellows Ida Bencke and Kibandu Pello-Esso IMS seminar
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Transmediating Authorship: Tove Jansson and Astrid Lindgren International workshop
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Guest seminar: Maddalena Pennacchia IMS seminar
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Guest seminar: Jason Hawreliak IMS seminar
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What steers the interpretation of a visual or multimodal message? A relevance theory perspective, Charles Forceville. IMS seminar
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Guest seminar: Theatre and Environment: Crisis, Society, Representation IMS seminar
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Guest seminar: History Repeats Itself? Music, Memory, and the Return of the Marcoses IMS seminar
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Guest seminar: The Emerging Contours IMS seminar
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Digital transformations. A dynamic encounter between music, art and technology Concert
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Guest seminar: Birgitte Stougaard Pedersen IMS seminar
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Guest seminar: Alexandra Huang-Kokina IMS seminar
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To Publish in Scientific Journals Cooperation with the Multimodal Research group Örebro IMS seminar
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Elleström’s media modalities in intermedial analysis IMS seminar
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Making Audible: Transmedial Perspectives on Sound and Memory in Documentary Filmmaking IMS seminar
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Making Audible: Transmedial Perspectives on Sound and Memory in Documentary Filmmaking IMS seminar
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Making Audible: Transmedial Perspectives on Sound and Memory in Documentary Filmmaking IMS seminar
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MIDWorld: Multimodal data session IMS Seminar
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Martin Knust, Music production in the countryside IMS Seminar
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Guest: Alzbeta Jurkovicova, Media Integration in the Works of Tage Danielsson IMS Seminar
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Guest: Tobias Pontara, The Role of Music and Sound in Audiovisually Mediated Conspiracy Theoretical Discourse IMS Seminar
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Signe Kjaer Jensen & Beate Schirrmacher: Multimodality and Intermediality IMS Seminar
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Eleni Timplalexi/Jørgen Bruhn on media products and Panagiotis Zestanakis on Memory in Times of Crisis IMS Seminar
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Guest: Joshua Han, The social semiotics of movement and music IMS Seminar
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Media and Emotional Mobilization Conference -
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CANCELLED - Internal IMS seminar: Drafts day IMS Seminar
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Matilda Davidsson, Midway PhD seminar IMS Seminar
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Panagiotis Zestanakis, Social Memories of Economic Crises in Spain, Greece, and Argentina IMS Seminar
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*POSTPONED UNTIL SPRING* - Young citizens and the quality of news IMS seminar
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Internal IMS seminar on Peirce IMS Seminar
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New IMS MIDWorld-PhD students - Presentation IMS Seminar
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The 16th International F. Scott Fitzgerald Society Conference Conference - All day
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Guest: Thomas Leitch, Six Ways of Thinking About Adaptation IMS seminar
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Guest: Professor Chengzhou He, Latour’s ANT Theory, New Materialism and the Future of Intermedial Studies IMS seminar
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Astrid Erll, Media, Media and Implicit Collective Memory IMS seminar
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Guest: Anna Sofia Rossholm, Adaptation and authorship across film and literature: Astrid Lindgren and Stina Bergman IMS seminar
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Comics, Literacy, Learning: workshop Workshop
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Emilio Audissino, Gestalt Psychology and Audiovisual Humour IMS seminar
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Guests: Olga Nikolaeva on Contemporary Russian Theatre and Mischa Kan on Jazz Record Covers IMS seminar
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Guest:Vincent Caers, Living Scores - Intermediality in Artistic Research IMS/HFL seminar
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Guest: Miriam Veira on architecture, literature and multimodal narratives IMS seminar
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Guests: Professor Youngmin Kim on intermedial ecocriticism and Shuiping Zou on Jiangxi Modern Art IMS seminar
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Maria Hasfeldt and Martin van der Linden, PhD presentations IMS seminar
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Environmental Emergencies Across Media Conference - All day
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Heidi Hart/Beate Schirrmacher, Transforming Musical Materials in the Age of Climate Crisis IMS seminar
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Guests: Yikun Wu (Orlando) on The Discursive Limits of Subjectivity & Ines Tebourski on William Blake and Multimodal Analysis IMS seminar
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Guest: Judith Holler, On the role of visual bodily signals in coordinating face-to-face interaction IMS seminar
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Media Product and Lars Elleström's Media Model: A Critical Discussion IMS seminar
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Meeting Media Minds: Marie-Laure Ryan, On the problematics of building a formal media system, or, why media drive me crazy IMS open, online lecture
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CANCELLED Isak Hyltén-Cavallius & Daniel Helsing IMS seminar
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Guest: Eleni Timplalexi, Challenging Key Certainties in Communication through Elleström’s Medium-centered Model IMS seminar
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Guests: Birgitte Stougaard and Therese Vilmar, Rythms of Reading and Music in Literary Fiction IMS seminar
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Guest: Pia Koskela, 'Karelia. A journey, two wars and the memory of a father' IMS seminar
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Guest: Phil Dodds, Bråkmakargatan in Rosengård: An Intermedial Perspective on Malmö New Wave Rap IMS seminar
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*CANCELLED* Meeting Media Minds: Irina Rajewsky IMS open, online lecture
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Kristoffer Holt: 'Young citizens and the quality of news' IMS seminar
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Guest: Anne Gjelsvik, Voices over Images: On voice-over in fiction films IMS seminar
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Guest: Richard Grusin, Arboreal Imaginings: Trees, Technics, Mediation IMS seminar
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Meeting Media Minds: João Queiroz, Intermediality and intersemiotic translation on self-inspection — 'process-regulated models' IMS open, online lecture
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Guest: Gibran de Souza, Literary Interpretations of Music: Verbal Music, Ekphrasis of Music and Beyond HFL/IMS seminar
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Guests: Shannon Wells-Lassagne & Candice Lemaire, 'Borders of/in adaptation' IMS seminar
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IMSmemory Inaugural Workshop IMSmemory Workshop
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John Bateman, The Mutual Complementarity of Lars Elleström’s Model of Intermediality and Current Approaches to Multimodality IMS open, online lecture
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Guest: Maddalena Carfora, Playing Wonderland Crossmedia Escape Room IMS seminar
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Meeting Media Minds: Kamilla Elliott, Lars Elleström and Bottom-up Categorization IMS open, online lecture
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Matilda Davidsson: Dissertation Plan IMS seminar
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Guest: Nicolai Skiveren, Screening Waste: An Empirical Reception Study of the Environmental Documentary Plastic China IMS seminar
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Guest presentations: 'Storytelling in Rock Art' and 'The Narrative Turn in Prehistoric Image-Making in Northern Europe' IMS seminar
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Thomas Leitch, 'How to Succeed in Intermediality Without Really Being Lars Elleström' IMS open, online lecture
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Cancelled! Signe Jensen: 'Sound and Music in Animation' IMS seminar
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Beate Schirrmacher & Nafiseh Mousavi: “Truth Claims Across Media” IMS seminar
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Mieke Bal, 'Citational Aesthetics: for Intermediality as Interrelation' IMS open, online lecture
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Guest speaker: Friederike Wißmann IMS seminar
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Kay O'Halloran, 'Everything is Intermedial' IMS open, online lecture
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Signe Jensen, Research application IMS seminar
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Guest: Giulia Bigongiari, 'The second view: sympathy beyond visuality in literature' IMS seminar
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Intermediality and Teaching: A one-day symposium IMS Symposium
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Climate Emergency Studies - Jørgen Bruhn, Ola Ståhl, Niklas Salmose IMS seminar
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W.J.T. Mitchell, 'From Iconology to Media Aesthetics' IMS open, online lecture
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Internal workshop on popular-scientific communication IMS seminar
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Signe Kjaer Jensen, book proposal + internal workshop IMS seminar
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Between fact and story: characteristics of sustainable journalistic narration? Conference
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Manmade and Media-borne: the Ecological Crisis across Media Seminar
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Guest talk: From Lab Rat to Lab Art: Ecopoetics in the Laboratory Seminar
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"Intermedial Studies" - book release! IMS Book release
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"Låt Donald Trump uttrycka dina känslor! GIFS i sociala medier" IMS "Media Impact" Popular Talk
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The Visual Culture of Migration Online Seminar
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*Cancelled* Pernilla Severson, title TBA IMS seminar
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Linnéuniversitetet Live: Hur fungerar medier? Linnéuniversitet Live
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Workshop on research applications 2 IMS seminar
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The sound of Elsa - Att höra “Let it Go” med barnens öron Media Impact - IMS popular talks
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Beate Schirrmacher 'A Story Too Good to Be True: Manipulation of Truth Claims in Faked News' IMS seminar
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Guest: Emilio Audissino, on Film/Music analysis IMS seminar
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Difficult heritage and conflicting memories: Perspectives on troubled pasts Online Seminar
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Guest: Nina Grønlykke Mollerup, "Well, Assad is still there…' - Violence, temporality and images for elsewhen" IMS seminar
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Carrying stories across borders: migration in, with, and across media Zoom Webinar
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Erik Erlanson on "Aesthetic Uses of Nature in Sweden 1900-1970" IMS seminar
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Public defence in Comparative Literature: Signe Kjaer Jensen Public defence
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Workshop on research applications IMS seminar
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Lars Elleström: “Media Translation and Media Transformation” IMS Seminar
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Virtually Alive: How Video Games Make Evolution Playable Webinar: IMS Media Impact Series
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Guest: Alžbeta Jurkovičová - 'Media Integration in the Works of Tage Danielsson' IMS Seminar
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Guest: Sarah Mygind, “Cluster Works: Children’s Literature in Transmedia Motion” IMS Seminar
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"You didn't see that coming!" How to tackle breaks of expectation with poetry Webinar: IMS - Media Impact series
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Nafiseh Mousavi: “Non-human in refugee narratives,” post-doc research application in-progress IMS Seminar
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Beate Schirrmacher: Collaboration with the surrounding society IMS Seminar
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Signe Jensen: Final seminar, "Musicalized Characters: A study of music, multimodality, and the empiric child perspective on mainstream animation" IMS Seminar
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Guest: Li Ling Siew "A Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis of Political Visual Arts of Civil Disobedience Movement in Hong Kong" IMS Seminar
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Guest: Jamie Sherry “Closing Visual Codas: Infidelities, Diversions and Radical Practices in Adaptations” IMS Seminar
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Gilbert Ambrazaitis: Audiovisual prominence perception IMS Seminar
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Public defence in Comparative Literature: Nafiseh Sadat Mousavi Public defence
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"Trust Me!" Truthfulness and Truth Claims across Media Conference -
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Guest: Ari Nykvist, "Transmedia journalism as workflow in newsrooms" IMS Seminar
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Dagmar Brunow: “Towards an archival study of screenplay versions: the role of screenwriting research for adaptation studies” IMS Seminar
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Guest: Eleni Timplalexi, "The transmedial journey of theatre performance going massively online during the COVID-19 pandemic: towards new intermedial forms of expression" IMS Seminar
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Discussions of research applications - CANCELLED IMS Seminar
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Guest Speaker: Andrea Virginás, 'Screens as places of intermediality and intercultural clash' IMS seminar
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Public defence in Comparative Literature: Letícia Vitral Public defence
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Public defence in Comparative Literature: Pedro Atã Public defence
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Beate Schirrmacher, 'How Do We Know it’s True? Fake(d) news and the truth claims of news media' IMS seminar
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Guest Speaker: Janneke Schoene, 'Transmediations. Audio guides for visually impaired visitors in art museums' IMS Seminar
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Admeire Santos - Brazilian Animation Film: Cultural warrant and the indexing method IMS seminar
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Discussions of Research Applications IMS seminar
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Multimodality of Translanguaging and Translation in Migration IMS seminar
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IMS Seminar: Lars Elleström, 'Symbolicity' IMS seminar
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Guest Presenter: Andrea Pócsik - "The Intermediality of the Peter Forgacs Holdings at Blinken Open Society Archive" IMS seminar
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Disruptive Discourse: Metanoic Reflexivity in Contemporary Rhetoric IMS seminar
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Key Dimensions of Alternative News Media IMS seminar
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Presentations of research ideas. IMS seminar
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Final seminar: Nafiseh Mousavi IMS seminar
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Letícia Vitral: Final seminar IMS: Final Seminar
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Guest: Thomas Leitch - "Escapism vs. Analysis: Some Ways of Discussing Our Immersion in Fictional Storyworlds" IMS Seminar, invited speaker
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Pedro Atá: Final seminar IMS: Final Seminar
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Guest presenter: Ana-Bianca Tudorica -Understanding the Relation Between Art and Science IMS Seminar
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Medial Conditions for Social Bonding in Singing IMS Seminar
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Modes of engagement: children's differing understandings of, and aesthetic involvement with, musicalized characters IMS Seminar
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Erik Erlanson: "The aesthetic and the semiotic in relation to Erich Hörl’s notion of the techonological displacement of sense" IMS Seminar
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Syngué Sabour; The Patience Stone as novel and film: networks of adaptation in mapping out a collective self IMS Seminar
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Guest presenter: Heidi Hart - "Sonic decay: Un-tuning in the age of climate crisis" IMS Seminar, invited speaker
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IMS Seminar: Diskussions of Research Applications IMS Seminar
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Intermedial and Multimodal Approaches to Wagner´s 'Ride of the Valkyries' IMS Seminar
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Mediating Information: Technologies of Office Work and Media Historical Change IMS Seminar
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Language and Law in Research, Education and Practice Konferens -
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European Researchers’ Night: Fifty shades of modern media
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Sounds of Mass Media: Music in Journalism and Propaganda -
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Fifty Shades of the Modern Media European Researchers' Night
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Explore the Outdoors in an Eco-Writing Workshop Workshop
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The Anthropocene as a mediated fact? How can we understand – and perhaps act upon – climate change? Open Seminar
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Elite eats: Multimodality, materiality and the discursive production of privilege
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Inspired by Duccio's Altarpiece and Bach's Passions: Frank Martin's violin concerto Polyptyque Open Lecture
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Intermedial and Multimodal Studies Seminar 6/7 2017
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Intermedial and Multimodal Studies (IMS) Seminar
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"... that's not even a math symbol; that's Charlie Brown's hair!": The radical multimodality of everyday communications Open lecture
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Intermedial and Multimodal Studies (IMS) seminar
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Intermedial and Multimodal Studies (IMS) Seminar
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Intermedial and Multimodal Studies (IMS) Seminar
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Intermedial and Multimodal Studies (IMS) Seminar
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Intermedial and Multimodal Studies (IMS) Seminar
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Intermedial and Multimodal Studies (IMS) Seminar
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Intermedial and Multimodal Studies (IMS) Seminar
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Intermedial and Multimodal Studies (IMS) Seminar
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Intermedial and Multimodal Studies (IMS) Seminar
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Intermedial and Multimodal Studies (IMS) Seminar
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Intermedial and Multimodal Studies (IMS) Seminar
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Conferences and Workshops
2024
Conference: Intermedial Networks: The Digital Present and Beyond. The 7th Conference of the International Society for Intermedial Studies. October 23-25.
Conference programme.
Workshop: Transmediating Authorship. Tove Jansson and Astrid Lindgren. June 12.
Workshop: Comics och lärande. May 16.
Concert: Digital transformations. A dynamic encounter between music, art and technology. March 12.
2023
Conference: Media and Emotional Mobilization, 12-13 October.
Conference programme.
Workshop: Comics literacy and learning. May 4.
Seminar and Concert: Living scores. Intermediality and artistic research. April 12.
Conference: Environmental Emergencies Across Media, March 16-18.
Conference programme.
2022
Open lecture Series: Meeting Media Minds – Critical Legacies of Lars Elleström. (publication Future Directions in Intermediality and Multimodality: Conversations Inspired by the Work of Lars Elleström, forth 2024).
Wonderland Escape Room. European Researcher’s Night, Sept 22.
Teaching Intermediality March 23.
2021
- Conference: "Trust Me!" Truthfulness and Truth Claims across Media", 9-12 March, 2021.
- Workshop: "Från bok till film: Utvandrarna och Aniara." (about screenwriting, screenplay development, and adaptations). https://lnu.se/mot-linneuniversitetet/aktuellt/kalender/2021/fran-bok-till-film-utvandrarna-och-aniarany-sida/
2019
- Workshop: “Mediation, transmediation and truthfulness II”, 20 Nov, 2019.
- Symposium: Performativity across Media, 3-4 October 2019
- Conference: Sounds of Mass Media: Music in Journalism and Propaganda, 7-9 June 2019, Eleventh meeting of the International Musicological Society (IMS) Study Group Music and Media (MaM)
- Workshop: “Mediation, transmediation and truthfulness I”, 30 Jan, 2019
- Conference: Multispecies Storytelling in Intermedial Practices, 23-25 January 2019
2018
- Workshop: Interrelations among different forms of human communication, 29-31 October 2018
- Conference: Symbiotic Cinema, Confluences between film and other Media, 6-8 September 2018, 24th Sercia Conference
- Workshop: “Transmedial Narration: Current Approaches” with Jan Noël Thon, 11 April, 2018.
2016
- Conference: Transmediations! Communication across Media Borders13-15 October 2016
2013
- Conference: Disturbing Adaptations, 26-27 September 2013, The 8thAnnual Conference of the Association of Adaptation Studies
2012
- Symposium: New Positions in Adaptation Studies, 8 February 2012
2011
- Conference: Transmedial Interaction: Western/non-Western Media Arts, 8-10 December 2011
- Symposium: Eighth International Symposium on Iconicity in Language and Literature, 16-18 June 2011
- Symposium: Adaptation and Media Transformations, 13–14 May 2011
- Symposium: Narration as a Transmedial Phenomenon, 11–12 March 2011
2010
- Symposium: Virtual Space and Time, 8-9 October 2010
2009
- Conference: Childhood and Postcolonialism Symposium, 15-16 December 2009
- Symposium: Bachtin and Intermediality, 3-4 December 2009
- Conference: Academic Perspectives on Comics, Manga & Graphic Novels, as Intercultural & Intermedial Phenomena, 16–18 April 2009
2008
- Conference: Astrid Lindgren: Internationality and Intermediality, 18-20 September 2008
- Conference: In Frost and in Cold: Nordic Ballad Meeting – Conference for Researchers, Practitioners and Teachers, 26-29 March 2008
2007
- Conference: Imagine Media! Media Borders and Intermediality, 25–28 October 2007
2005
- Conference: Bodies – Arts – Crossroads: The Body and Intermediality, 27–30 October 2005, The 7th NorSIS Conference
Researcher Interviews
IMS Research and Society is a series of ultra-short interviews originally published on Facebook. The intention behind the series has been to provide a quick entry point into what we are doing in IMS and why we are doing it. Please note that not all interviews below are part of the original series.
The interviews are centred around three questions:
- what the research is about
- why the research is important
- how it engages with challenges in society
Lars Elleström on Media Relations
Liviu Lutas on transmediality and intermedial ecocriticism
Makai Péter Kristóf on evolution as represented in popular media
Beate Schirrmacher and Corina Löwe on Representation of Trials in other Media
Martin Knust on developing critical perspectives on the evolution of news media
Signe Kjær Jensen on animated films, music, and on listening to children's own voices when researching children's media
Open Lecture Series: Meeting Media Minds – Critical Legacies of Lars Elleström
Following Lars Elleström's death in December 2021, we launched a series of online lectures with international scholars to commemorate his work. The invited speakers were asked to talk about and discuss one of Lars Elleström’s concepts in relation to their own work. The lectures will be published in an anthology in due time.