Conference 2019

Multilingual digital storytelling, museum artefacts and the arts: Creative pathways to language-and-culture learning

Funded by the Language Acts and Worldmaking Project (AHRC)

Friday 7 June 2019 (9.00 am – 2.30 pm)

Top Floor, Margaret MacMillan Building, Goldsmiths, University of London https://www.gold.ac.uk/campus-map/

 Programme  
9.00Registration and tea, coffee and refreshments – Top Floor  
9.30Welcome   Maggie Pitfield, Head of Department of Educational Studies, Goldsmiths  
9.30Introduction to Multilingual digital storytelling, museum artefacts and the arts: Creative pathways to language-and-culture learning Dr Jim Anderson and Dr Vicky Macleroy, Goldsmiths, University of London   Introducing the 3 main conference strands: experience, culture and identityprocess and performanceagency and dialogic thinking  
10.00Plenary: Making space for learning: Exploring affect in stop-frame-animation. Prof Gabriele Budach, Dimitri Efremov, Daniela Loghin and Gohar Sharoyan, University of Luxembourg  
10.45BREAK  
  11.00Workshops 1           Workshops will be based on the 3 conference strandsStrand 1 Experience, culture and identity   Rm 224Uncovering tales and building identities through objects and digital media Dr Vicky Macleroy, Shabita Shamsad, Dimitri Efremov and Sammy Orazi  
Strand 2 Process and performance   Rm 220Variants of folk tales: setting the scene for a digital story Dr Chryso Charalambous and Dr Sotiroula Stavrou  
Strand 3 Agency and dialogic thinking   Rm 212Digitally retelling the tale Dr John Jessel and Mirela Dumić      
12.00LUNCH      
1.00Workshops 2             Workshops will be based on the 3 conference strandsStrand 1 Experience, culture and identity   Rm 224Animation, puppetry, book arts, drama and painting in children’s explorations of language and culture   Dr Yu-Chiao Chung and Marie Gaillard  
Strand 2 Process and performance   Rm 220Playing with Dragons: Drama, Digital Storytelling and Language   Dr Chryso Charalambous and Eleni Koki  
Strand 3 Agency and dialogic thinking   Rm 214Art and language-and-culture learning: Creative interactions with the work of Ali Omar Ermes   Dr Jim Anderson and Reem Abdelhadi  
2.00Plenary: Reflections and ideas for moving forward   Dr Vally Lytra and Dr Cristina Ros i Solé  
2.30End of Conference