Discourse analysis workshop with Professor Theo van Leeuwen

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Queensland University of Technology

Friday, March 7, 2008

10am – 4:30pm

Room A330, Kelvin Grove Campus

The School of Cultural and Language Studies in Education at QUT invites you to a day-long discourse analysis workshop with Professor Theo van Leeuwen.  Professor van Leeuwen has published extensively in the area of semiotic analysis and co-authored the ground-breaking book Reading Images: The Grammar of Visual Design with Gunther Kress in 1995 (released in second edition in 2006). 

The workshop will be of interest to researchers and postgraduate students working in all areas of text analysis, including talk, written documents, and visual and multimodal texts.  The workshop will involve three sessions:

1. Professor van Leeuwen discussing past and present work;
2. Question and answers from workshop participants related to data and analysis;
3. A panel discussion with experts in the area of discourse analysis: Professor Theo van Leeuwen, Professor Allan Luke and Professor Phil Graham.

The workshop is free and is open to interested researchers across universities and faculties. Afternoon tea will provided.

• People with specific questions about data and analytical methods are invited to send materials to Margaret Kettle at m.kettle@qut.edu.au.  All questions and data samples will be forwarded to Professor van Leeuwen.

Registration is closed now.

Recommended Readings for the Workshop.

Kelvin Grove Transport Options

Public transport: QUT’s Kelvin Grove campus is easy to get to by bus with the QUT Kelvin Grove busway station located at the eastern side of the campus. Contact TransInfo for more information on 13 1230 or visit www.transinfo.qld.gov.au

Street parking is available but is limited. The Kelvin Grove campus is located within a Brisbane Central Traffic Area so there is a two hour parking limit unless otherwise signed from 7.00 am to 6.00 pm.

Parking at the QUT Kelvin Grove campus is limited and regulations are enforced with fines for parking without a permit. There is no free parking on-campus.

Visitors can use the pay and display parking areas. The pay and display car parks are approximately 10 minutes walking distance from the venue.

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Herston Road Pay & Display Car Park is located off Herston Road near the tennis courts. Fees: apply from 8.00 am to 6.00 pm, Monday to Friday, 60 cents per hour.

Oval Pay & Display Car Park is located off Herston Road adjacent to the Oval. Fees: apply 24 hours, flat fee of $4.00 per day.

Parking in the SLSC building, F Block is only allowed if you display a pre-purchased scratch-it permit.

Scratch-it permits can be purchased in advance and used when parking at either the Oval Pay & Display Car Park or the SLSC Pay & Display Car Park (SLSC building, F Block, off Boundary Road). Scratch-it permits can be purchased from the Kelvin Grove campus bookshop, post office and Student Centre (F Block). Fees: apply 24 hours, $3.00-$6.00 per day.

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