
Illustration & Writing Symposium Programme
*Please note that this schedule is subject to change.
Thursday 3 November 2011
Council Chamber, MMU Ormond Building, Lower Ormond Street, Manchester, M15
9.00- 10.00 Registration and Coffee (Righton Building)
10.00- 10.30 Welcome from Illustration Research Team, Council Chamber
10.30- 12.00 ‘Image Texts’
- Dr. Sheena Calvert (University of Westminster): Materia Prima
- Elena Malozyomova (The Hermitage Museum, St.Petersburg): Text as Image – Edged Arms Decoration in the Middle East
- Jonathon Gibb (Edinburgh College of Art): Visions of the Beast – Animal imagery in illustration
12.00- 1.00 Lunch (provided)
1.15- 2.45 ‘Authority’
- Catrin Morgan (RCA): Phantom Settlements
- Vasvi Oza (University of English and Foreign Languages, Hyderabad): Questions of Reading and Readership of Pictorial texts: The Case of Bhimayana, A Pictoral Biography of Dr. Ambekar
- Aaron Hill (University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia): Representations and Distortions of ‘Self’ in Graphic Narrative: Borders of Autography and Visual Representations of ‘I’ and ‘Self’
(via skype) - Angela Yannicopolou (University of Athens): Illustration and Ideology in Children’s Stories Council Chamber
2.45 – 3.00 Break
3.00 – 4.30 ‘Story-times’
- Steve Braund (Falmouth): Slowing Time Down: correspondences, ambiguity and attendance
- Amelia Johnstone (CSAD): Once Upon Again… ‘There was a time and no time…’
- Martin Salisbury and Katherina Manolessou (Anglia Ruskin): ‘Being There’
Closing Words – Day One
5.00 Exhibition Openings (Wine Reception)
- Jonny Hannah: Holden Side Gallery
- Illustration Exhibition: Link Gallery
7.00 – 9.00 Symposium Dinner, Manchester city centre (optional)
Friday 4 November 2011
Manchester Metropolitan University, Geoffrey Manton Building, Lecture Theatre 4, M15 6BH
9.00 – 10.30 ‘Translation’
- Jim Walker (Maidstone): The Autographic Impulse: Illustrative Dislocations and Dissolutions in
contemporary illustration - Emily Robertson (Belfast); Filmstrips, Hieroglyphs, and “Hand-Drawn Music”: or, How Does One
Draw a Picture of Sound? - Desdemona McCannon (MMU): Describing the Unknowable: Illustration and Gnosis
10.30 – 11.30 Posters and Coffee
- Mick Gowar (Anglia Ruskin): Young Storytellers
- INK illustration: The Wondering Line
- Leon Coward (Australia): My Vietnam Reflections
- Stephanie Black (UWE): Meaning in the Methods
- Howard Read (University of Wolverhampton): Notes in my sketchbook: an analysis of text and image
- Dr. Fjoralba Satka and Marisa Kërbizi (Aleksandër Moisiu State University, Albania): The black primitive paintings of Maks Velo as the image of his human and artistic philosophy
11.30 – 1.00 ‘Defining the Field’
- Hena Ali (Central Saint Martins): Visual Reflections – Lollywood billboards, just a commercial medium or an ideological allegorical literacy?
- Nanette Hoogslag (RCA): The impossible news illustration
- Adrian Holme (Camberwell, Maidstone): One theorist who said we do not need one theory.The relevance of Marshall McLuhan to illustration theorisation and pedagogy (or why illustration is a 21st century discipline)
1.00 – 1.45 Lunch (Provided)
2.00 – 4.00 Keynote and plenary session
- Ewa Satalecka
4.00 – 4.30 Coffee and planning session: Information about publications (journal and Book)
Symposium end – closing words
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