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<div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><p style="margin: 0px 0pt 12px 10pt; max-width: 650pt; line-height: 1.4; font-size: 11pt; padding-bottom: 5pt; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><strong class="" style="font-size: 11pt;">INSTITUTE 2022 / MULTIMODALITY. COGNITION. SOCIETY.</strong><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0pt 12px 10pt; max-width: 650pt; line-height: 1.4; font-size: 11pt; padding-bottom: 5pt; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">@ </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">ZiF - Center for Interdisciplinary Research, </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">Bielefeld, Germany - Aug 28 to Sep 6 2022 </span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0pt 12px 10pt; max-width: 650pt; line-height: 1.4; font-size: 11pt; padding-bottom: 5pt; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><a href="https://codesign-lab.org/institute2022/index.html" class="">https://codesign-lab.org/institute2022/</a></p><div class=""><p class="" style="margin: 0px 0pt 12px 10pt; max-width: 650pt; line-height: 1.4; font-size: 11pt; padding-bottom: 5pt; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br class=""></p><p class="" style="margin: 0px 0pt 12px 10pt; max-width: 650pt; line-height: 1.4; font-size: 11pt; padding-bottom: 5pt; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong class="" style="font-size: 11pt;">ABOUT THE INSTITUTE</strong></p></div><p style="margin: 0px 0pt 12px 10pt; max-width: 650pt; line-height: 1.4; font-size: 11pt; padding-bottom: 5pt; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">The Institute on Multimodality provides a consolidated perspective on the theoretical, methodological, and practical understanding of multimodality research. The institute offers a novel interdisciplinary view of recent advances centralising multimodality research from diverse viewpoints, including:</p><ul style="max-width: 650pt; padding-bottom: 5pt; margin: 12px 0px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" class=""><li style="font-size: 11pt; padding: 3px 0px; line-height: 1.4;" class="">Artificial intelligence - Machine learning</li><li style="font-size: 11pt; padding: 3px 0px; line-height: 1.4;" class="">Cognition - Media Reception</li><li style="font-size: 11pt; padding: 3px 0px; line-height: 1.4;" class="">Multimodal Interaction - Semiotics</li><li style="font-size: 11pt; padding: 3px 0px; line-height: 1.4;" class="">Media and Communications</li><li style="font-size: 11pt; padding: 3px 0px; line-height: 1.4;" class="">Data science - Media practice</li></ul><p style="margin: 0px 0pt 12px 10pt; max-width: 650pt; line-height: 1.4; font-size: 11pt; padding-bottom: 5pt; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">Through a confluence of perspectives from <strong class="">Minds, Media, and Technology</strong>, the institute will position and enable an understanding of the manner in which multimodality shapes the socio-semiotic interpretation and propagation of interactional, communicative, and collaborative acts/artefacts in everyday life and work.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0pt 12px 10pt; max-width: 650pt; line-height: 1.4; font-size: 11pt; padding-bottom: 5pt; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><i class="">The Institute on Multimodality features the following</i>:</p><ul style="max-width: 650pt; padding-bottom: 5pt; margin: 12px 0px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" class=""><li style="font-size: 11pt; padding: 3px 0px; line-height: 1.4;" class="">Dissemination Event: Summer School + Doctoral Colloquium (consisting of keynotes, lectures, tutorials)</li><li style="font-size: 11pt; padding: 3px 0px; line-height: 1.4;" class="">Public Event, colocated as an informal evening session during the summer school</li><li style="font-size: 11pt; padding: 3px 0px; line-height: 1.4;" class="">Workshop of ZiF Research Group on "Multimodal Rhetoric in Online Media Communications''</li></ul><p style="margin: 0px 0pt 12px 10pt; max-width: 650pt; line-height: 1.4; font-size: 11pt; padding-bottom: 5pt; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">One of the central agenda of the institute pertains to dissemination; through a summer school, for instance, this will be achieved through focussed lectures and tutorial sessions devoted to the topic under consideration. The institute will --through its multidisciplinary faculty and technical programme-- present a comprehensive and outward-looking view of multimodality research at the interface of Minds, Media, and Technology. The scientific agenda of the institute will explicate the relationships between multimodality studies across areas such as cognition, artificial intelligence, visuo-auditory media, and interaction studies, particularly highlighting the significance of multimodality research towards the design and engineering of next-generation digital technologies.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0pt 12px 10pt; max-width: 650pt; line-height: 1.4; font-size: 11pt; padding-bottom: 5pt; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">Location: ZiF - Center for Interdisciplinary Research / Methoden 1, 33615 Bielefeld, Germany</p><p style="margin: 0px 0pt 12px 10pt; max-width: 650pt; line-height: 1.4; font-size: 11pt; padding-bottom: 5pt; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">Travelling to ZiF / <a href="https://www.uni-bielefeld.de/(en)/ZiF/Allgemeines/anreise.html" class="">https://www.uni-bielefeld.de/(en)/ZiF/Allgemeines/anreise.html</a></p><p style="margin: 0px 0pt 12px 10pt; max-width: 650pt; line-height: 1.4; font-size: 11pt; padding-bottom: 5pt; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">Travelling to. Bielefeld / <a href="http://schloss-etelsen.de/" class="">https://www.bielefeld.de/</a></p><p style="margin: 0px 0pt 12px 10pt; max-width: 650pt; line-height: 1.4; font-size: 11pt; padding-bottom: 5pt; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">For more information on the school and programme visit: <a href="https://codesign-lab.org/institute2022/index.html" class="">https://codesign-lab.org/institute2022/</a></p><div class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px 0pt 12px 10pt; max-width: 650pt; line-height: 1.4; padding-bottom: 5pt;" class=""><strong style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px;" class=""><br class=""></strong></div><div style="margin: 0px 0pt 12px 10pt; max-width: 650pt; line-height: 1.4; padding-bottom: 5pt;" class=""><strong style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px;" class="">INSTITUTE FACULTY</strong></div><div style="margin: 0px 0pt 12px 10pt; max-width: 650pt; line-height: 1.4; padding-bottom: 5pt;" class=""><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" class=""><span style="font-size: 14.666666984558105px;" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>— Prof. John Bateman (University of Bremen, Germany)<br class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>— Prof. Mehul Bhatt (Örebro University, Sweden)<br class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>— Dr. Johanna Björklund (Umeå University, Sweden)<br class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>— Prof. Ralph Ewerth (Leibniz University, Germany)<br class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>— Prof. Charles Forceville (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands <br class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>— Dr. Inés Olza (University of Navarra, Spain)<br class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>— Prof. Asli Özyürek (Radboud University, The Netherlands)<br class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>— Prof. Barbara Tversky (Stanford University, United States)</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px 0pt 12px 10pt; max-width: 650pt; line-height: 1.4; padding-bottom: 5pt;" class=""><i style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px;" class=""><br class=""></i></div><div style="margin: 0px 0pt 12px 10pt; max-width: 650pt; line-height: 1.4; padding-bottom: 5pt;" class=""><strong style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px;" class="">INSTITUTE COURSES</strong></div><div style="margin: 0px 0pt 12px 10pt; max-width: 650pt; line-height: 1.4; padding-bottom: 5pt;" class=""><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: 14.666666984558105px; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14.666666984558105px;" class="">1. A General Account of Multimodal Meaning Relations and Its Application to News Media (Bateman)</span><br class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: 14.666666984558105px; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14.666666984558105px;" class="">2. Representation Mediated Multimodality: A Confluence of AI and Cognition (Bhatt)</span><br class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: 14.666666984558105px; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14.666666984558105px;" class="">3. Semantic Parsing of Multimodal Data (Björklund)</span><br class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: 14.666666984558105px; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14.666666984558105px;" class="">4. Computational Models for Multimodal Information (Ewerth)</span><br class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: 14.666666984558105px; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14.666666984558105px;" class="">5. Applying the Relevance Principle to Visual and Multimodal Communication (Forceville)</span><br class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: 14.666666984558105px; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14.666666984558105px;" class="">6. Multimodal Approaches to Oral Corpora (Olza)</span><br class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: 14.666666984558105px; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14.666666984558105px;" class="">7. Multimodality as Design Feature of Human Language Capacity (Özyürek)</span><br class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: 14.666666984558105px; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14.666666984558105px;" class="">8. Communication Face-to-Face and on the Page </span><span style="font-size: 14.666666984558105px; font-style: normal;" class="">(Tversky)</span></font></div><p style="margin: 0px 0pt 12px 10pt; max-width: 650pt; line-height: 1.4; font-size: 11pt; padding-bottom: 5pt; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><i class="">(Additional one or two courses will be included)</i></p><p style="margin: 0px 0pt 12px 10pt; max-width: 650pt; line-height: 1.4; font-size: 11pt; padding-bottom: 5pt; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><strong class=""><br class=""></strong></p><p style="margin: 0px 0pt 12px 10pt; max-width: 650pt; line-height: 1.4; font-size: 11pt; padding-bottom: 5pt; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><strong class="">TARGET AUDIENCE </strong> </p><p style="margin: 0px 0pt 12px 10pt; max-width: 650pt; line-height: 1.4; font-size: 11pt; padding-bottom: 5pt; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">In addition to the Institute faculty, expected participants primarily include doctoral candidates and research-driven students. Participants interested in obtaining a scholarship are expected to submit an application to participate as per Application Guidelines (details below). <u class="">Selected applicants will be fully supported for their participatiton in Institute</u>. More generally, we welcome and encourage participation by anyone who is interested in the interdisciplinary learning programme of the insititute; if in doubt, please contact the institute organisation.</p><ol style="max-width: 650pt; margin: 12px 0px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" class=""></ol><p style="margin: 0px 0pt 12px 10pt; max-width: 650pt; line-height: 1.4; font-size: 11pt; padding-bottom: 5pt; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><strong class=""><br class=""></strong></p><p style="margin: 0px 0pt 12px 10pt; max-width: 650pt; line-height: 1.4; font-size: 11pt; padding-bottom: 5pt; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><strong class="">APPLICATION -OR- EXPRESSION OF INTEREST</strong></p><p style="margin: 0px 0pt 12px 10pt; max-width: 650pt; line-height: 1.4; font-size: 11pt; padding-bottom: 5pt; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">Applications are accepted and evaluated in two rounds, with a first deadline on <strong class="">May 26 2022</strong>, and a second deadline on <strong class="">June 10 2022</strong>; after this date, new applications will only be considered if there are still places available (please note that places are limited even if a scholarship is not sought). Join > <a href="https://codesign-lab.org/institute2022/join.html" class="">https://codesign-lab.org/institute2022/join.html</a></p><p style="margin: 0px 0pt 12px 10pt; max-width: 650pt; line-height: 1.4; font-size: 11pt; padding-bottom: 5pt; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><br class=""></p><p style="margin: 0px 0pt 12px 10pt; max-width: 650pt; line-height: 1.4; font-size: 11pt; padding-bottom: 5pt; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><strong class="">SCHOLARSHIP ELIGIBILITY AND GUIDELINES</strong></p><p style="margin: 0px 0pt 12px 10pt; max-width: 650pt; line-height: 1.4; font-size: 11pt; padding-bottom: 5pt; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">For participation with a scholarship, the institute is primarily (but not exclusively) aimed at early stage doctoral researchers and research-inclined students enrolled full-time in an advanced educational programme. Eligible candidates need to submit the following as a single PDF:</p><ol style="max-width: 650pt; margin: 12px 0px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" class=""><li style="font-size: 11pt; padding: 3px 0px; line-height: 1.4;" class="">One-page CV</li><li style="font-size: 11pt; padding: 3px 0px; line-height: 1.4;" class="">Reference letter by principal research/thesis advisor, motivating the need for financial support</li><li style="font-size: 11pt; padding: 3px 0px; line-height: 1.4;" class="">In max 300 words, Research Description (if already pursuing a thesis or similar), or else a Motivating Statement of Interest in the topics of the institute</li><li style="font-size: 11pt; padding: 3px 0px; line-height: 1.4;" class="">Scholarship receiving candidates are expected to participate and present their research in a doctoral colloquium during the institute; further guidelines about this doctoral colloquium will be provided individually.</li></ol><div style="margin: 0px 0pt 12px 10pt; max-width: 650pt; line-height: 1.4; font-size: 11pt; padding-bottom: 5pt; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p style="margin: 0px 0pt 12px 10pt; max-width: 650pt; line-height: 1.4; font-size: 11pt; padding-bottom: 5pt; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><strong class="">SELECTION CRITERIA</strong></p><p style="margin: 0px 0pt 12px 10pt; max-width: 650pt; line-height: 1.4; font-size: 11pt; padding-bottom: 5pt; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">Applicants will be selected based on personal research interest and experience relevant to the school’s theme and topics. The selection committee will do their best in terms of ensuring fair and inclusive distribution with respect to gender, geographic location.</p><div style="margin: 0px 0pt 12px 10pt; max-width: 650pt; line-height: 1.4; font-size: 11pt; padding-bottom: 5pt; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p style="margin: 0px 0pt 12px 10pt; max-width: 650pt; line-height: 1.4; font-size: 11pt; padding-bottom: 5pt; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><strong class="">ORGANIZATION</strong></p><p style="margin: 0px 0pt 12px 10pt; max-width: 650pt; line-height: 1.4; font-size: 11pt; padding-bottom: 5pt; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><strong class="">Institute 2022 Chairs</strong></p><ul style="max-width: 650pt; padding-bottom: 5pt; margin: 12px 0px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" class=""><li style="font-size: 11pt; padding: 3px 0px; line-height: 1.4;" class="">Mehul Bhatt (Örebro University, Sweden)</li><li style="font-size: 11pt; padding: 3px 0px; line-height: 1.4;" class="">John Bateman (University of Bremen, Germany)</li><li style="font-size: 11pt; padding: 3px 0px; line-height: 1.4;" class="">Kay O’Halloran (University of Liverpool, United Kingdom)</li></ul><p style="margin: 0px 0pt 12px 10pt; max-width: 650pt; line-height: 1.4; font-size: 11pt; padding-bottom: 5pt; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><strong class="">Organizing Chair</strong></p><ul style="max-width: 650pt; padding-bottom: 5pt; margin: 12px 0px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" class=""><li style="font-size: 11pt; padding: 3px 0px; line-height: 1.4;" class="">Vasiliki Kondyli (Örebro University, Sweden) </li></ul><p style="margin: 0px 0pt 12px 10pt; max-width: 650pt; line-height: 1.4; font-size: 11pt; padding-bottom: 5pt; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><strong class="">Local Arrangments </strong></p><ul style="max-width: 650pt; padding-bottom: 5pt; margin: 12px 0px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" class=""><li style="font-size: 11pt; padding: 3px 0px; line-height: 1.4;" class="">Trixi Valentin (Center for Interdisciplinary Research-ZiF, Bielefeld, Germany)</li></ul><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><i class="">[ Apologies for cross-postings ]</i><div class=""><i class=""><br class=""></i></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></div></body></html>