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The TINTIN project at Tilburg University is hosting a conference on Visual Language and Multimodality next year! Please find the Call for Papers below and feel free to circulate this information further. The deadline for abstract submissions is <b style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><i class="ContentPasted0 ContentPasted1">15
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<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;margin:0in"><span style="font-size:30px;margin:0px"><b class="ContentPasted0">Visual Language Conference 2024</b></span><font size="3" class="ContentPasted0"></font></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;margin:0in"><font size="3"><b class="ContentPasted0">27-28 June 2024 (Thursday and Friday), Tilburg University in The Netherlands</b></font></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;margin:0in"><font size="3" class="ContentPasted0"> </font><u><a href="https://www.visuallanguagelab.com/vislang2024" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-ogsc="rgb(149, 79, 114)" data-linkindex="0" style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(149, 79, 114);" id="OWAcdab132f-dc4b-e155-1dbe-0e607c4bf188" class="OWAAutoLink ContentPasted0">https://www.visuallanguagelab.com/vislang2024</a></u></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal ContentPasted0" style="margin:0in">The last two decades have seen an increasing focus on visual and multimodal media, particularly comics, emoji, and memes. Growing work has applied theories and empirical methods from the linguistic and
cognitive sciences to the study of visual and multimodal communication. The Visual Language Conference (VisLang) at Tilburg University aims to bring together scholars focused on these issues to further work towards establishing a community around this research.</p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal ContentPasted0" style="margin:0in">We invite submissions to VisLang2024, a two-day conference at Tilburg University in the Netherlands. We invite presentations on all dimensions of visual languages and associated fields. This includes
research on (but not limited to):</p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin:0in"><b class="ContentPasted0">- pictorial expressions (drawings, art, emoji, cartoons)</b></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin:0in"><b class="ContentPasted0">- visual narratives (comics, graphic novels, manga, picture books, film, etc.)</b></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin:0in"><b class="ContentPasted0">- non-narrative sequential images (instructions, signage)</b></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin:0in"><b class="ContentPasted0">- multimodality (memes, text-emoji relations, cartoons etc.)</b></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin:0in"><b class="ContentPasted0">- historical and/or cultural graphic systems</b></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin:0in"><b class="ContentPasted0">- visual event cognition and scene perception</b></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin:0in"><b class="ContentPasted0">- …and other pictorial and/or multimodal media</b></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal ContentPasted0" style="margin:0in">We welcome both theoretical and empirical research (corpus, experimental), particularly those situated within (but not limited to) linguistics, psychology, cognitive science, and cultural evolution, in
addition to research with developmental, applied, and/or educational focus.</p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal ContentPasted0" style="margin:0in">Submissions are welcomed from researchers at all levels of scholarship. Submissions include an abstract of up to 400 words, which will be chosen for either a talk or a poster. <b><i class="ContentPasted0">Submission
deadline is 15 January 2024.</i></b></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal ContentPasted0" style="margin:0in">Submissions can be made through the conference website here: <a href="https://www.visuallanguagelab.com/vislang2024" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-ogsc="" data-linkindex="1" style="margin:0px" id="OWAdec196e7-be7c-6f55-021a-aa0ed314ff20" class="OWAAutoLink ContentPasted0">https://www.visuallanguagelab.com/vislang2024</a></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal ContentPasted0" style="margin:0in">Presenters will be requested to appear in person at Tilburg University, but the conference will be livestreamed for remote participation. 27-28 June 2024 (Thursday and Friday)</p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal ContentPasted0" style="margin:0in">VisLang2024 is hosted by the Visual Language Lab within the Department of Communication and Cognition and is funded through an ERC Starting Grant for the TINTIN Project (ttps://www.visuallanguagelab.com/tintin). </p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal ContentPasted0" style="margin:0in">Additional questions can be sent to neilcohn@visuallanguagelab.com</p>
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