The Michel Blanc Lecture in Applied Linguistics 2018
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Birkbeck Clore Management Centre
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The Department of Applied Linguistics and Communication at Birkbeck, University of London, is excited to announce that Professor Adam Jaworski (The University of Hong Kong) is the speaker for this year's Michel Blanc lecture. The talk will be followed by a drinks reception.
EAT/DIE and other stories:
Remediation and creativity in Robert Indiana's word art
Professor Adam Jaworski, The University of Hong Kong
Several decades ago, Robert Indiana (b. 1928) described himself as 'an American painter of signs'. In this presentation, Professor Jaworski makes a case for considering Indiana as a painter of stories. Drawing on the 'small stories' model for narrative analysis (Georgakopoulou), he argues that Robert Indiana's word pieces in the EAT, EAT/DIE and LOVE cycles constitute episodic narratives adding up to Indiana's own life story (or artist mythology). Indiana's creative remediation (Bolter and Grusin) of his multimodal writing in different materials and formats, its emplacement as public art and widespread imitation allow members of the public to appropriate his artworks in episodic encounters and make them part of their own biographies.
Speaker Bio: Adam Jaworski is Chair Professor of Sociolinguistics in the School of English at the University of Hong Kong. He worked previously at Adam Mickiewicz University (Poznań), Birkbeck, University of London, where he continues his association with the Department of Applied Linguistics and Communication as an Honorary Research Fellow, and Cardiff University. His research interests include discursive and multimodal approaches to tourism, mobility and globalization; display of languages in space; media discourse; nonverbal communication; and text-based art.
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