ICOM#12 – Sadly, from Afar

This was to be my annual conference highlight: I was looking forward to meeting long-time and new colleagues, learning about … Mehr

Looking back on the Summer

Usually, my page-entries look ahead to upcoming events. That this is a post-hoc, reminiscing comment must mean I’ve been neglecting … Mehr

I am infinitely grateful that the workshop on multimodal argumentation I started at Salzburg last April now find its nearly … Mehr

When Janina Wildfeuer, my Groningen colleague, asked me to write a paper for her research topic on Frontiers, I didn’t … Mehr

When Sonja MOLNAR, my former PhD-student, moved to Australia to take up a position at the University of Melbourne, I … Mehr

I had hoped to be able to travel to Chemnitz, where I spent quite a few years of my academic … Mehr

When Gunther Kress passed away at a conference in Rome in the summer of 2019, the idea was quickly born … Mehr

Even (more so) in pandemic times, there is never enough breathing space to properly contemplate what one has accomplished. Only … Mehr

Thanks to the initiative of my colleagues Markus OPPOLZER and Elisabeth KRIEBER, the annual conference on ‚comics research‘ (run by … Mehr

The University of Potsdam and its ‚Virtual Centre for Cultural Semiotics‘ will be hosting a truly interesting event from 3 … Mehr