On 24 October at 14:45 (at Jonas Jablonskis room) dr. Sophia Diamantopoulou from the University College London will give a plenary lecture on Gesture and movement as embodied meaning making: a multimodal social semiotic approach at the International Conference Beyond Words: Persuasive Narratives and Multimodal Discourse.
Sophia Diamantopoulou is Associate Professor at the UCL Institute of Education, Department for Culture, Communication and Media. Her expertise is in the areas of multimodal communication, multimodal discourse analysis and embodied learning, with a special focus on museums and English language learning. Sophia teaches on several MA modules across various programmes at the IOE, including the Applied Linguistics, where is leads the MA module on Multimodal Communication. She supervises MA and PhD students with an interest in multimodality. She is responsible for the Visual and Multimodal Research Forum seminar at the UCL Centre for Multimodal Research and is co-hostess of the international multimodality lecture series ‘Multimodality Talks’. She has been the chair of the recent International Conference on Multimodality in 2023 (ICOM-11). Sophia is an editorial board member for Multimodality and Society, Museums and Society and the American Journal of Educational Research. For an overview of her publications, see: https://profiles.ucl.ac.uk/49812-sophia-diamantopoulou and https://multimodalforum.org/ .