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FLAMM 2027: Second Workshop on Formal Linguistic Approaches to Multimodality We are happy to announce that the Semantics Department will organize the second Formal Linguistic Approaches to MultiModality (FLAMM) workshop on August 27–28, 2027, in collaboration with the Priority Program Visual Communication (ViCom). The workshop aims to promote and advance the study of multimodality from a formal linguistic perspective by bringing together scholars interested in the formal analysis of visual and multimodal communication. With this event, we follow up on the first successful edition of the conference, which took place at Trinity College in Dublin. Further details will be announced in due course....

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...