Visual Learning: Communication -- Cognition -- Curriculum
Conference to take place in Budapest, December 7-8, 2012
Conference organized by
the
Visual Learning Lab, Department of Technical Education, Budapest
University of Technology and Economics.
Speakers included:
Laura Cull
James E. Katz
Zoltan Kovecses
John Mullarkey
Klaus Sachs-Hombach
Barry Smith
Frederik Stjernfelt
Contributions
are invited from educational, communication, and media theorists;
philosophers, linguists, psychologists, and other interested scholars on
the following and related topics:
- educational theory and visual learning pictorial skills
- pictorial communication
- visual intelligence
- the visual mind
- ontology of images
- the image problem in the history of philosophy
- visual argument
- diagrammatic reasoning
- scientific visualization
- visualization and higher education
- information visualization
- image and language
- the use of images in foreign language teaching
- image and creativity
- images in the network age
A
slot of altogether 30 minutes is planned for each presentation. We
envisage an ensuing volume of selected papers (vol. 3 in the series
Visual Learning, ed. by Andras Benedek and Kristof Nyiri).
Submission
of abstracts (max. 200 words) and short biographical statements (max.
100 words) by Aug. 1, 2012. Please send your submissions simultaneously
to Prof. Andras Benedek (Head, Department of Technical Education) and
to Kristof Nyiri (Professor of Philosophy, Department of Technical
Education). Those submitting abstracts will be notified of the decision
concerning acceptance by Sept. 15, 2012.
No
conference fees will be charged. Participants are encouraged to arrange
their own accommodation. The conference venue (Budapest University of
Technology and Economics, 1117 Budapest, Magyar Tudosok korutja 2, Bld.
Q, Wing A) is located near downtown Budapest.
