Dartmouth Events

"Evocative Objects: Re-imagining the Possibilities of Material Objects and Multimodal Composing"

Presenter: Jody Shipka, Assoc. Prof. of English, Univ. of Maryland Baltimore County

This session will ask us to move beyond thinking with or writing about objects, and will instead, as Professor Shipka puts it, explore “more fully what it might mean to actually compose with objects.”  She explains: “By inviting participants to compose complex object-texts, the workshop . . . challenges a tendency in the field to conflate multimodality with digital media or visual-verbal 2D object-texts. Indeed, when they are considered at all, multimodal texts that are strictly analog or hybrid analog/digital creations are not often viewed as being scholarly or academic—they are instead labeled expressive, crafty, arhetorical, or even childlike. This workshop works to trouble those assumptions.” Shipka’s work also addresses the challenges of assessing multimodal compositions; she advocates reflection and self-assessment, among other means, as tools to support robust evaluations of multimodal work. Dinner will be served.

To register: http://libcal.dartmouth.edu/event/2811865