Conference Programme

Below you will find the conference schedule. For those arriving over the weekend, we invite you to register for the conference warming on Sunday, 12th March 2017 (prepaid event). Otherwise, the conference opens on Monday morning, 13th March 2017, and closes at midday on Wednesday, 15th March 2017.

The complete conference programme is available in the digital conference brochure.

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The conference programme included:

four plenaries by keynote speakers Bill Cope, Gunther Kress, Catherine Beavis and Mary Kalantzis
six parallel thematic sections

Potentials of digital and multimodal literature and storytelling
Developments in digital and multimodal materials and resources
Innovations in media-based and pop-cultural approaches
Literacies for film and audiovisual media
Higher education and developments in CALL/TELL
Teacher education, educational policies and curricula

conference warming, conference dinner and a wine reception
the inaugural meeting of the Young Researchers' Network on Tuesday afternoon (14:30, Senatssaal)
a cultural programme on Tuesday afternoon
the TEFL Day on Tuesday (teacher training day with workshops)

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Conference Sections and Talks:

Sunday, 12th March 2017

07:00 p.m.
Conference warming (venue: "Augustiner am Dom")

Monday, 13th March 2017

09:00-10:00 a.m.
Registration

10:00-10:30 a.m.
Conference opening and welcome

Welcome address: Prof. Dr. Martin Wirsing, Vice President of LMU
Conference opening: Prof. Dr. Christiane Lütge, Chair of TEFL

10:30-11:30 a.m.
Plenary

Bill Cope, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA
"Language Learning and Assessment in the Era of Technology-Mediated Learning"

Abstract

11:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Coffee break

12:00-01:30 p.m.
Parallel sections

01:30-03:00 p.m.
Lunch break

03:00-05:00 p.m.
Parallel sections

05:00-05:30 p.m.
Coffee break

05:30-06:30 p.m.
Plenary

Gunther Kress, University College London, UK
"Speech and Writing in an Era of Social and Semiotic Provisionality: Multimodal Representation and the Growing Dominance of the Screen"

Abstract

as of 06:30 p.m.
Wine reception with live music

Tuesday, 14th March 2017

09:00-10:00 a.m.
Plenary

Catherine Beavis, Deakin University, Australia
"Digital Literacies, Digital Games: Language, Learning and Play"

Abstract

10:00-10:30 a.m.
Coffee break

10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Parallel sections

12:30-01:30 p.m.
Lunch break

Cultural programme in the afternoon (guided tours in museums; meeting point in the central conference area at ca. 02:15 p.m.; tours begin at 03:00 p.m.)

02:30-03:45 p.m.
Inaugural meeting of the Young Researchers' Network (in the Senatssaal)

07:30 p.m.
Conference dinner (venue: "Hofbräuhaus")

Parallel to the conference programme on this Tuesday, we will be offering a TEFL Day featuring conference-related workshops, talks and panels for practising EFL teachers. The TEFL Day will take place from 09:00 a.m. - 05:45 p.m. All details regarding the TEFL Day can be found here.