Kick-off Workshop – Potential Field Multimodal Communication (MultiCom)
May 18, 2026 | 11:00–18:30 | Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften, Bad Homburg
Since January 2026, the Potential Field Multimodal Communication (MultiCom) (speakers: Cornelia Ebert and Frank Kügler) has been established within Goethe University’s Profile Area Universality & Diversity. The initiative aims to develop a cross-disciplinary research focus on multimodal communication at Goethe University and within the Rhine–Main Universities (RMU).
MultiCom brings together scholars from linguistics and philology, literary and cultural studies, theatre, film and media studies, art history and visual culture, fine arts, history, psychology and cognitive neuroscience, musicology and ethnomusicology, as well as computational and digital humanities research.
To launch the initiative, we invite colleagues to a kick-off workshop that will introduce its scope and aims and connect perspectives from the participating disciplines. The workshop will be structured around short impulses and open contributions, providing space to share current projects, research questions, and ideas for collaboration across disciplinary boundaries. A central aim of the day is to discuss the future directions of the initiative.
If you would like to participate, please contact MultiCom’s project manager, Lennart Fritzsche, at fritzsche@em.uni-frankfurt.de by March 6, 2026. Further details regarding the program and possible contributions will follow once we have an overview of interested participants.
The workshop will take place in person.