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[Publik.ims] Next week's IMS seminar: Guest - Sarah Mygind, “Cluster Works: Children’s Literature in Transmedia Motion”

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Dear all, Welcome to next week’s IMS seminar. IMS, in collaboration with CHILLL<https://lnu.se/en/research/searchresearch/childhood-research-in-literature-…>, has invited Sarah Mygind (PhD, Assistant Professor at Comparative Literature and Center for Children’s Literature and Media, Aarhus University) who will give a presentation on “Cluster Works: Children’s Literature in Transmedia Motion” Abstract: Media works for children and young adults are increasingly designed, produced and experienced across digital as well as print-based media. These works do not necessarily exist in a clear hierarchical order with primary and secondary texts, on the contrary, the texts often work together to create a unified whole. With children’s literature as its point of departure, this talk will unfold some of the implications of this new transmedia condition. Read more about Sarah Mygind here.<https://pure.au.dk/portal/en/persons/sarah-mygind(7287a5c3-b5bf-4e23-b1cc-d…> The seminar is on the 2 June from 10.15-12.00 CEST. As always the seminar will be on zoom: https://lnu-se.zoom.us/j/940933326 Best wishes, Signe – on behalf of IMS IMS on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LNU.IMS IMS public email list: https://lists.sunet.se/listinfo/publik.ims IMS website: https://lnu.se/en/research/searchresearch/linnaeus-university-centre-for-in… Signe Kjaer Jensen PhD student in Comparative Literature Centre for Intermedial and Multimodal Studies (IMS) Linnæus University Department of Film and Literature 351 95 Växjö Sweden https://lnu.se/personal/signe.kjaerjensen/ signe.kjaerjensen at lnu.se<mailto:signe.kjaerjensen at lnu.se>

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[Publik.ims] Welcome to the "Media Impact" series, with Pedro Atã on the connection between surprise and poetry

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Dear all, *Sorry for cross posting* We would like to draw your attention to a newly started series of IMS-webinars called ‘Media Impact’, a series that showcases current IMS research in a short, popular format. The series is intended for everyone with an interest in media and culture, everyone who wants to learn more about how daily media choices affect communication and meaning in art, popular culture, and mass media, and everyone who wants to get a first impression of what research at IMS is about. The series can for example be of interest to teachers, students, communicators, journalists and cultural workers, but also established academics can take advantage of the series to get a quick introduction to new research. Especially in the beginning of the series, we would like to ask you to support the talks as audience and to spread the word to colleagues and other people who could be interested. All talks will be ca. 15 minutes long and streamed live online, with the chance to ask questions. The talks are free to attend, but you will need to register on the IMS website. The talks will also be video recorded and available to watch afterwards. The first couple of talks will be in English, but in time, we will also have talks in Swedish. So far, we have two talks scheduled, but more talks will be announced for the autumn term: * May 27 at 15.30-16.00 CEST: “’You didn't see that coming!’ How to tackle breaks of expectation with poetry” with Pedro Atã. Description: Poetry experiments teach us to not take stable meanings for granted and to work in alliance with breaks of expectation. In this talk, Pedro Atã will explain how poetry can teach you to deal with the unexpected. Pedro Atã holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from Linnaeus University. He researches surprise and creativity between media and is especially interested in experimental and improvisational procedures in arts and literature. Register on our Swedish webpage (for English speakers: scroll down to the form, fill in your name and email (called e-post in Swedish) in the two boxes, and click the box 'övrigt' if you are not associated with LNU. Finally, click the GDPR box to allow the university to use your name and email to send you information about the event): https://lnu.se/mot-linneuniversitetet/aktuellt/kalender/2021/media-impact--… * June 17 at 15.30-16.00 CEST, “Virtually Alive: How Video Games Make Evolution Playable” with Péter Makai Description: Video and board games turn evolution into a playable experience. Which strategies are used for making the science of evolution fun? And how does player interaction change the dynamic of evolution? Become wiser on these questions together with Péter Kristóf Makai, in our second talk in the Media Impact series. Peter Makai recently finished his Crafoord Postdoctoral Fellowship at Linnaeus Unversity Centre of Intermedial and Multimodal Studies. He is currently a KWI International Fellow at the University of Duisburg-Essen's Cultural Studies Institute, studying how theme parks are transmediated into digital and board games. He has published work on Tolkien, games and worldbuilding in Reconstructing Arda, Tolkien Studies, and in Postmodern Reinterpretations of Fairy Tales. Register on our Swedish webpage (for English speakers: scroll down to the form, fill in your name and email (called e-post in Swedish) in the two boxes, and click the box 'övrigt' if you are not associated with LNU. Finally, click the GDPR box to allow the university to use your name and email to send you information about the event): https://lnu.se/mot-linneuniversitetet/aktuellt/kalender/2021/media-impact--… You can find all the information about the series and upcoming talks on our website: https://lnu.se/en/research/searchresearch/linnaeus-university-centre-for-in… Best wishes, Signe – on behalf of IMS IMS on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LNU.IMS IMS public email list: https://lists.sunet.se/listinfo/publik.ims IMS website: https://lnu.se/en/research/searchresearch/linnaeus-university-centre-for-in… Signe Kjaer Jensen PhD student in Comparative Literature Centre for Intermedial and Multimodal Studies (IMS) Linnæus University Department of Film and Literature 351 95 Växjö Sweden https://lnu.se/personal/signe.kjaerjensen/ signe.kjaerjensen at lnu.se<mailto:signe.kjaerjensen at lnu.se>

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[Publik.ims] Next week's IMS seminar: Nafiseh mousavi, “Non-human in refugee narratives,” post-doc research application in-progress"

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Dear all, Welcome to next week’s IMS seminar, where Nafiseh Mousavi will present her ideas for a possible post-doc project. Title: “Non-human in refugee narratives,” post-doc research application in-progress Message from Nafiseh about the seminar: Next week at the IMS seminar, I will present a preliminary plan for a research project with which I intend to apply for post-doc funds. I have already presented the idea briefly within the intermedial eco-criticism group. In this seminar, I will give a further detailed and modified presentation on the topic, with a specific focus on its intermedial, narrative, and representational aspects. To frame it briefly, my idea is to look at a range of literary media products (novels, graphic novels, and autobiographical narratives) that represent the refugee experience, mainly from an insider’s perspective. The aim is to look at the ecology of the refugee experience, as depicted in these works, by investigating the human/non-human interactions that determine the refugees' journeys, border-crossings, and encampment experiences. This investigation is intended to be further situated in the broader frame of ‘precarity of human-ness’ that affects the refugee situation. At this stage, this project is still more of a reading/thinking-in-progress, so I thought a verbal-visual presentation would make more sense than a fuzzy draft. That’s why I’ll present the application. The seminar is on the 12 May from 10.15-12.00 CEST. As always the seminar will be on zoom: https://lnu-se.zoom.us/j/940933326 Best wishes, Signe – on behalf of IMS Signe Kjaer Jensen PhD student in Comparative Literature Centre for Intermedial and Multimodal Studies (IMS) Linnæus University Department of Film and Literature 351 95 Växjö Sweden https://lnu.se/personal/signe.kjaerjensen/ signe.kjaerjensen at lnu.se<mailto:signe.kjaerjensen at lnu.se> IMS on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LNU.IMS IMS public email list: https://lists.sunet.se/listinfo/publik.ims IMS website: https://lnu.se/en/research/searchresearch/linnaeus-university-centre-for-in…

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[Publik.ims] Next week's IMS seminar: Signe Jensens final seminar, 21. april

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Dear all, This is a quick reminder that next week we have an extended IMS seminar, starting at 9.00, where I, Signe, will present and discuss my thesis draft. Kim Christian Schrøder, Department of Communication and Arts, Roskilde University, Denmark, professor in Audiences and Mediated Life, is the opponent. If any of you have not received the thesis, and want to have a look at it before the seminar, please email me at ims at lnu.se. Abstract: This thesis is an audience reception study of film music and animation film, centered around the ways that animated characters are constructed as psychological beings which children can understand and identify with – as if they were real humans. The analysis considers the narrative context of a character but is particularly focused on the musical and multimodal construction of a character, meaning particular attention is put on how character traits are communicated by the use of music, voice, colours, camera perspective, etc. This analysis of the construction of characters is then compared to actual child audiences’ expressions of their experiences and interpretations, obtained through observations and interviews, in order to highlight how children understand and relate to the material they are presented to. Understanding and interpreting an animated film is conditioned by the structure of that film, but interpretation is also conditioned by the communicative situation and social position of the audience, as well as personal experiences, and as such no ‘absolute’ interpretation can be made, not even within a uniform group. This does not mean that we shouldn’t aim to understand how people process and relate to media, however, or to understand how children experience the animated films that are so immensely popular, overflowing our mainstream culture. By analysing the multimodal semiotic potential of three selected films, Frozen (2013), Up (2009) and Shrek the Third (2007), and comparing these analyses with children’s multimodal expressions (children often communicate through gestures or by humming or signing, necessitating multimodal interview transcriptions) of their understandings and opinions, it is the goal of this thesis to shed light on the ways that children relate to and use filmic form, particularly music, in negotiating the content, particularly characters, of the film, in a process where meaning is created in the active reception process of a child in a communicative situation The seminar is on the 21 April. Note that it starts 1 hour early at 9.00 CEST. As always the seminar will be on zoom: https://lnu-se.zoom.us/j/940933326 I hope to see many of you there! Best wishes, Signe – on behalf of myself and of IMS Signe Kjaer Jensen PhD student in Comparative Literature Centre for Intermedial and Multimodal Studies (IMS) Linnæus University Department of Film and Literature 351 95 Växjö Sweden https://lnu.se/personal/signe.kjaerjensen/ signe.kjaerjensen at lnu.se<mailto:signe.kjaerjensen at lnu.se> IMS on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LNU.IMS IMS public email list: https://lists.sunet.se/listinfo/publik.ims

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