08–10 November 2017
University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland
Espace Louis-Agassiz 1, R.N. 02, R.N. 04, R.N. 08
In November 2017, the Universities of Neuchâtel, Zurich and Bern in Switzerland will host the first international conference to focus specifically on visual communication in/about new media. The conference is part of the SNF-funded project "What's up Switzerland?".
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
We are delighted to announce that the following prominent scholars have agreed to make keynote presentations. Each of these people is an established expert in the broadly conceived field of “digital discourse” studies, all of whom deal with the ways digital communication functions as a multimodal phenomenon.
Rodney Jones
Professor of Sociolinguistics and New Media, Reading University, England; webpage
Gudrun Ledegen
Professor of Sociolinguistics, University of Rennes 2, France; webpage
The keynote presentation of Gudrun Ledegen had to be cancelled due to reasons of serious ill health.
Sirpa Leppänen
Professor of Discourse Studies, University of Jyväskylä, Finland; webpage
Hartmut Stöckl
Professor of English and Applied Linguistics, University of Salzburg, Austria; webpage
