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Tuesday, October 6
 

5:30pm EDT

Welcome Reception
Tuesday October 6, 2026 5:30pm - 7:30pm EDT
Tuesday October 6, 2026 5:30pm - 7:30pm EDT
TBA
 
Wednesday, October 7
 

8:30am EDT

Registration
Wednesday October 7, 2026 8:30am - 9:00am EDT
Wednesday October 7, 2026 8:30am - 9:00am EDT
Garden

9:00am EDT

Campfire Stories: Seeing, Knowing, and Designing in the Age of AI
Wednesday October 7, 2026 9:00am - 10:00am EDT
This campfire session brings together Learning Designers (LDs), Learning Experience Designers (LXDs), Educational Technology Specialists, and educators to examine how Generative AI (GenAI), in combination with design thinking, can support the development of visually rich, learner-centered educational experiences. Grounded in key theoretical frameworks, including Visual Literacy Theory (Avgerinou &...
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avatar for Maria D. Avgerinou

Maria D. Avgerinou

Faculty and Director- MA in Learning Design and Technology, The American University of Greece- Global Campus
Dr. Avgerinou is the Program Director for the MA in Learning Design and Technology at the American University of Greece- Global Campus. She holds an MA and PhD in Education from the University of Bath (UK) and has over 25 years of experience as a certified online educator and academic... Read More →
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Vassilia Stefanou

Associate Professor, The American University of Greece- Global Campus
With over 25 years of teaching experience, Dr. Stefanou is a seasoned educator and researcher whose work spans multiple interdisciplinary domains. Her primary research interests include Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), User Experience (UX), Interaction Design, Learning Experience... Read More →
Wednesday October 7, 2026 9:00am - 10:00am EDT
Circular Church

9:00am EDT

Mapping What We Have: Community Asset Mapping as Visual Literacy and Place-Based Practice
Wednesday October 7, 2026 9:00am - 10:00am EDT
What does it mean to truly see the resources within a community? This session examines community asset mapping as a visual literacy practice, one that makes tangible the often-invisible networks of support that exist within places and communities.Drawing on two distinct contexts, this presentation examines how the act of physically mapping community assets transforms the way people understand and...
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Samantha Duke

Doctoral Student, North Carolina State University
Samantha Duke is a Ph.D. candidate in Teacher Education and Learning Sciences: Literacy and English Language Arts Education at North Carolina State University. She studies preservice teacher preparation and support and aims to create spaces of belonging in which students are empowered... Read More →
Wednesday October 7, 2026 9:00am - 10:00am EDT
Studio

9:00am EDT

The Memory Body: Where Awe, Symbolism, and the Body Meet in the Work of Healing-Centered Education
Wednesday October 7, 2026 9:00am - 10:00am EDT
What if images don't just represent memory? What if the body remembers through them?This session introduces the concept of the "memory body": the proposition that visual symbols encountered in landscapes, natural environments, and daily life activate not only cognitive memory but somatic, emotional, and energetic memory and that this insight has direct implications for how we...
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avatar for Dr. Karen F. Tardrew

Dr. Karen F. Tardrew

Professor, Chair of Learning Sciences in Education, National Louis University
Dr. Karen F. Tardrew is a tenured Professor and Chair of Learning Sciences in Education at National Louis University, where she has served for over 33 years as a scholar, leader, and innovator in educator development. Her teaching and research explore the intersections of visual... Read More →
Wednesday October 7, 2026 9:00am - 10:00am EDT
Lecture Hall

9:00am EDT

Welcome and Keynote
Wednesday October 7, 2026 9:00am - 10:00am EDT
Wednesday October 7, 2026 9:00am - 10:00am EDT
Lecture Hall

10:00am EDT

Coffee and Tea Break
Wednesday October 7, 2026 10:00am - 10:30am EDT
Wednesday October 7, 2026 10:00am - 10:30am EDT
Garden

10:30am EDT

What Gets Preserved When We Remediate: Accessibility as Visual Memory Work
Wednesday October 7, 2026 10:30am - 11:00am EDT
Accessibility remediation is often seen as a technical or compliance-focused process. This paper presents remediation as visual memory work. It involves a series of decisions that influence how visual images, interfaces, and institutional stories are preserved, changed, or hidden over time. Drawing on library web governance, digital systems cleanup, and Title II accessibility projects, this...
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Kelly Peter

Assistant Professor, Web & Systems Librarian, University of Wisconsin, La Crosse
Kelly Peter is the Web and Systems Librarian at Murphy Library, University of Wisconsin–La Crosse. With a background spanning IT systems administration and more than fifteen years of library leadership across public and academic libraries, Kelly brings a wide-ranging perspective... Read More →
Wednesday October 7, 2026 10:30am - 11:00am EDT
Lecture Hall

10:30am EDT

“Good friends?”: 20th-century LGBTQ+ love and representation in archival instruction
Wednesday October 7, 2026 10:30am - 11:00am EDT
We all have heard the story: Two people of the same sex living their lives together being labeled as “good friends” despite evidence that would suggest that these people were very much in love with each other. This narrative turns into erasure of LGBTQ+ people in history. But what if we had confirmation of these stories thanks to photographs? And what if we used those photographs as...
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Emily Beran

Research and Instruction Librarian, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Emily Beran (she/her) is the Research and Instruction Librarian in the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library. With a background in art history, she tries to incorporate different visual media including manuscript illumination, prints, and photographs... Read More →
Wednesday October 7, 2026 10:30am - 11:00am EDT
Studio

10:30am EDT

“We learn from each other”: A Sibling Case Study of Multimodal Identity-Making in a Refugee Youth Literacy Program
Wednesday October 7, 2026 10:30am - 11:00am EDT
In this paper presentation, we examine how two Afghan refugee siblings navigated identity, culture, and belonging through multimodal composing within the Literacy and Community Initiative (LCI), a research-practice partnership focused on the literacy education and well-being of immigrant and refugee youth. LCI integrates critical multimodal literacy, trauma-informed practices, and arts-based...
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Speakers
avatar for Angela Wiseman

Angela Wiseman

Associate Professor, Literacy Education, NC State University
Angela M. Wiseman, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Literacy Education at North Carolina State University and Affiliated Faculty at the Center for Visual Literacies at San Diego State University, where her scholarship advances critical visual and multimodal qualitative methods for understanding how youth... Read More →
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Majid Komasi

Doctoral Student and Graduate Research Assistant, NC State University
Majid Komasi is a Doctoral Student in Learning Design and Technology at NC State University's College of Education, where he works as a Graduate Research Assistant affiliated with the Literacy and Community Initiative (LCI). His research focuses on the intersections of multimodal... Read More →
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Sarah Blankenbeker

Graduate Student, NC State University
Sarah Blankenbeker is a first-year doctoral student in the Literacy and English Language Arts Education program within the Teacher Education and Learning Sciences department at North Carolina State University. She holds a Master of Arts in Reading and Literacy Education from East... Read More →
Wednesday October 7, 2026 10:30am - 11:00am EDT
Circular Church

11:00am EDT

Re-Seeing Together: Pláticas as Collaborative Visual Literacy Across Time
Wednesday October 7, 2026 11:00am - 11:30am EDT
This presentation positions pláticas, a culturally grounded dialogic practice rooted in feminist and Chicana/o scholarship, as a form of collaborative visual literacy and a structured way of seeing one's own experience through the eyes of others across time. Drawing on a collaborative autoethnographic study of three Puerto Rican bilingual educators in rural North Carolina, the presenter...
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Speakers
avatar for María Heysha Carrillo Carrasquillo

María Heysha Carrillo Carrasquillo

Assistant Professor of Early Childhood Education, University of Hawai`i - West O'ahu
Dr. María Heysha Carrillo Carrasquillo is a scholar, educator, and storyteller whose work sits at the intersection of language, place, and social identity in multilingual education. María Heysha is an assistant professor of early childhood education at the University of Hawai`i... Read More →
Wednesday October 7, 2026 11:00am - 11:30am EDT
Circular Church

11:00am EDT

Rage Against the Archive: Visual Literacy and the Afterlives of Colonial Photography
Wednesday October 7, 2026 11:00am - 11:30am EDT
Rage Against the Archive is a practice-based research project that examines how colonial photographs can get decontextualized in digital archives, losing their gravitas. This project focuses on "The People of India" (1868–75)—a British ethnographic publication produced after the 1857 Sepoy Mutiny to classify and document colonized natives. The camera functioned as an imperial...
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Anshul Roy

PhD student, University of Colorado Boulder
Anshul Roy (b. 1997, India) is a visual artist with an MFA in Art Photography (2024) from Syracuse University in New York and a B.Tech in Bioengineering (2020) from the Indian Institute of Technology in Kanpur. Currently, he is a PhD student in the Critical Media Practices department... Read More →
Wednesday October 7, 2026 11:00am - 11:30am EDT
Studio

11:00am EDT

When Words Enhance Vision: The Role of Audio Description
Wednesday October 7, 2026 11:00am - 11:30am EDT
Following a brief introduction to audio description as a form of accessible intersemiotic translation, this paper advances the hypothesis that, although AD was originally conceived for individuals with visual impairments, this practice could be broadened to encompass a wider, general audience. This constitutes the central claim of our study.To this end, we present, on the one hand, a fragment from...
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María Valero Gisbert

Associate Professor, University of Parma
Associate Professor at Parma Universtiy (Italy). Research aereas: Audio description, Audiiovisual Translation; Lexicography.
Wednesday October 7, 2026 11:00am - 11:30am EDT
Studio

12:30pm EDT

Lunch
Wednesday October 7, 2026 12:30pm - 1:30pm EDT
Wednesday October 7, 2026 12:30pm - 1:30pm EDT
Garden

1:30pm EDT

Face2Face: From Lamprey Grid's to the Bounding Box
Wednesday October 7, 2026 1:30pm - 2:00pm EDT
What does it mean to encounter someone’s face across time? Face2Face is a research-based art project that draws conceptual parallels between 19th-century anthropological photography and contemporary facial recognition systems, critically examining how images function as enduring tools for classification, surveillance, and ideological control. Both of these forms of “scopic regimes of...
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Speakers
avatar for Anshul Roy

Anshul Roy

PhD student, University of Colorado Boulder
Anshul Roy (b. 1997, India) is a visual artist with an MFA in Art Photography (2024) from Syracuse University in New York and a B.Tech in Bioengineering (2020) from the Indian Institute of Technology in Kanpur. Currently, he is a PhD student in the Critical Media Practices department... Read More →
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Srikar Hari

PhD student, University of Colorado Boulder
Srikar Hari (b. 1993, India) is a visual artist, currently pursuing his PhD in the Critical Media Practices department of the University of Colorado Boulder. He holds an MFA in Photography from Rhode Island School of Design, USA and a Bachelor’s in Digital Video Production from... Read More →
Wednesday October 7, 2026 1:30pm - 2:00pm EDT
Studio

1:30pm EDT

Teachers Inducting Mexican Cultural Themes through Co-Construction of an Informal Mural
Wednesday October 7, 2026 1:30pm - 2:00pm EDT
In this presentation, we share the results of a mural co-construction activity with in-service teachers participating in a study abroad program in Mexico that aims to prepare and encourage educators to carry out culturally-reflective representation activities in their own classrooms. The activity was intentionally reflective of and synergistic with the rich heritage of Mexican muralism viewed by...
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Speakers
avatar for Angela Wiseman

Angela Wiseman

Associate Professor, Literacy Education, NC State University
Angela M. Wiseman, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Literacy Education at North Carolina State University and Affiliated Faculty at the Center for Visual Literacies at San Diego State University, where her scholarship advances critical visual and multimodal qualitative methods for understanding how youth... Read More →
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Kevin Oliver

Professor, North Carolina State University
Dr. Oliver is a Professor of Learning, Design, and Technology in the College of Education at North Carolina State University.
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Mary Estrada

Assistant Teaching Professor, North Carolina State University
Dr. Estrada is an Assistant Teaching Professor of Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at North Carolina State University.
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Michael Cook

Professor, Auburn University
Dr. Cook is a Professor of English Language Arts Education in Auburn University's College of Education
Wednesday October 7, 2026 1:30pm - 2:00pm EDT
Circular Church

1:30pm EDT

What Spaces Remember: Sensing Time Through Film, Sound, and Perception
Wednesday October 7, 2026 1:30pm - 2:00pm EDT
What does it mean for a space to remember? And how might that memory be sensed rather than simply observed?This presentation explores how film and sound engage the layered memory of place, not as a fixed historical record, but as a perceptual experience. Drawing from work across filmmaking, music, and visual direction, it examines how architecture, atmosphere, and sonic presence shape the way time...
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avatar for Justin Baker-Rojas

Justin Baker-Rojas

Owner, Fuzzy Image Media
Justin is the media coordinator for IVLA
Wednesday October 7, 2026 1:30pm - 2:00pm EDT
Lecture Hall

2:00pm EDT

Destabilized Places of Memory: Hudeček’s Painting from the Perspective of Visual Literacy
Wednesday October 7, 2026 2:00pm - 2:30pm EDT
Aleš Hudeček’s painting opens the problem of memory where the image does not preserve the past as a reconstructable event but organizes it through destabilized place. Rooms, façades, staircases, patterned partitions, decorative floors, sculptural residues, and figures remain clearly recognizable, yet they do not consolidate into one stable site, one historical layer, or one...
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Tomáš Koudela

assistant professor and vice-dean, University of Ostrava
Tomáš Koudela is an assistant professor and Vice-Dean for Communication and Creative Activities at the Faculty of Education, University of Ostrava. He serves as the head of the Visual Studies Centre and leads the interdisciplinary Visual Literacy Research Team. His research focuses... Read More →
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Timotej Blažek

postdoctoral researcher, University of Ostrava
Mgr. Timotej Blažek, Ph.D. (*1989) is an art educator and theorist in the field of art education. Since 2022, he has been working at the National Institute of Education and Youth, focusing on research and development in the educational area of Art and Culture, particularly art education... Read More →
avatar for Tereza Čapandová

Tereza Čapandová

researcher assistant, University of Ostrava
Tereza Čapandová is a research assistant at the Faculty of Education, University of Ostrava, and a member of the Visual Literacy Research Team. She is currently completing her Ph.D. in Art Education, focusing on the concept of originality in the context of post-production theory... Read More →
Wednesday October 7, 2026 2:00pm - 2:30pm EDT
Lecture Hall

2:00pm EDT

The Family Album of Lucybelle Crater: Recalling the Artist, Family, and the Newly Imagined
Wednesday October 7, 2026 2:00pm - 2:30pm EDT
Ralph Eugene Meatyard, an optician and self-trained photographer, is known for his abject works. Influenced by writers such as Ambrose Bierce and William Blake, Meatyard’s work explores links between real and imagined worlds which come to life in his photographs. Leveraging techniques such as long and double exposure, Meatyard elevates simple landscapes into dreamscapes. Would-be basic...
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avatar for Micaela Deogracias

Micaela Deogracias

Outreach and Engagement Librarian, Indiana University Bloomington
Micaela Deogracias is currently an Outreach and Engagement Librarian at Indiana University Bloomington. At the IUB Education Library, she is responsible for creating instructional opportunities to support students in the School of Education, particularly those relating to visual literacy... Read More →
Wednesday October 7, 2026 2:00pm - 2:30pm EDT
Studio

2:00pm EDT

The Impact of Visualization Across Multiple Intervention Phases on the Writing Growth of Bilingual Students as Measured by a Standardized Writing Assessment.
Wednesday October 7, 2026 2:00pm - 2:30pm EDT
The use of visualization in writing instruction has been known to be effective with multilingual learners. Learners of new languages produce more content when they have access to alternative semiotic resources by reducing cognitive demands associated with written expression, However, less is known about the role of visualization as a tool for identity and cultural representation in...
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avatar for Priti Haria

Priti Haria

Associated Professor of Education, Stockton University
Priti Haria, Associate Professor of Special Education, Stockton University, NJ Priti Haria received her Ph. D in Special Education from University of Delaware with focus on developing genre-specific reading and writing strategies to support school-age students’ comprehension and writing skills. She has several years of teaching and research experience in t... Read More →
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Ekaterina Midgette

Associate Professor of Literacy, St. John's University, NY

Ekaterina Midgette, Associate Professor of Literacy,  St. John’s University, NYEkaterina Midgette earned a Ph.D. in Literacy from the University of Delaware where she specialized in researching planning and revision strategies for adolescent writers. She completed her graduate degree at Moscow State Linguistic University where she majored in Linguistics and Intercu... Read More →
Wednesday October 7, 2026 2:00pm - 2:30pm EDT
Circular Church

2:30pm EDT

Coffee and Tea Break
Wednesday October 7, 2026 2:30pm - 3:00pm EDT
Wednesday October 7, 2026 2:30pm - 3:00pm EDT
Garden

3:00pm EDT

(IN)VISIBILITY CLOAK EMBODYING WHITENESS, MEMORY, AND TRANSFORMATION THROUGH ARTS BASED EDUCATION RESEARCH
Wednesday October 7, 2026 3:00pm - 3:30pm EDT
This project explores how arts-based educational research can be used to investigate whiteness, memory, and identity through embodied making. Centered on the transformation of an inherited wool cloak, the work engages personal and ancestral narratives as a way to question the social and emotional structures that shape what it means to be a “good” white woman. Drawing from family...
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Amy Sparks

Assistant Extension Professor, University of Minnesota Extension Youth Development
Amy Sparks is a University of Extension Educator in Youth Development and a PhD student whose research explores arts-based, embodied, and liberatory approaches to education, with a focus on identity, belonging, and youth empowerment. She is dedicated to innovating and implementing... Read More →
Wednesday October 7, 2026 3:00pm - 3:30pm EDT
Circular Church

3:00pm EDT

Behind the Handbook: Editing and Curating Perspectives on Visual Inquiry
Wednesday October 7, 2026 3:00pm - 3:30pm EDT
This presentation reflects on the editorial and curatorial process behind the Handbook of Visual Inquiry: Methods and Pedagogies for Visual Literacy. The aim of the book is to provide a comprehensive, accessible, and critically grounded resource on visual research methods and pedagogical approaches for visual literacy in education. As visual communication increasingly shapes how knowledge is...
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avatar for Dana S. Thompson

Dana S. Thompson

Research and Instruction Librarian, Murray State University
Dana S. Thompson is a research and instruction librarian and associate professor at Murray State University. Dana currently serves as the President of the International Visual Literacy Association and has served as a member of the ACRL Visual Literacy Taskforce. Her research and teaching... Read More →
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Ricardo Lopez-Leon

Lead Researcher, Universidad Autonoma de Aguascalientes
Gemini dijoRicardo Lopez-Leon is a Lead Researcher-Lecturer at the Design Sciences Center of the University of Aguascalientes, Mexico. He holds a Ph.D. in Art and Sciences for Design, specializing in applied aesthetics and semiotics, from the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana. As... Read More →
Wednesday October 7, 2026 3:00pm - 3:30pm EDT
Studio

3:00pm EDT

Social Media Elicitation as a Methodology
Wednesday October 7, 2026 3:00pm - 3:30pm EDT
Research on media theory and media literacy has long held that mediated messages can help shape the way audiences come to view the world. To date, researchers have looked at how film and television depictions of teachers, classrooms, and students play a role in shaping how pre-service teachers come to think about and prepare for their students. However, the widespread use and adoption of social...
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avatar for Alicia Burnette Whitley

Alicia Burnette Whitley

Graduate Student, North Carolina State University
Alicia Whitley is a PhD Candidate from North Carolina State University whose work focuses on pre-service teacher education and critical media literacies.
Wednesday October 7, 2026 3:00pm - 3:30pm EDT
Lecture Hall

3:30pm EDT

Artifacts of Becoming: Autoethnographic Inquiry into the Higher Education Experience Across Identity, Place, and Time
Wednesday October 7, 2026 3:30pm - 4:30pm EDT
Doctoral scholars and graduates document their own becoming constantly, in objects carried, images made, and texts written across the margins of academic life. This panel brings together three scholars (present and alumni) from the NC State College of Education to present autoethnographic inquiries anchored in personal visual and material artifacts, each one a record of a journey that...
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avatar for Amber Moore

Amber Moore

Doctoral student, North Carolina State University
Amber L. Moore is a doctoral candidate in Teacher Education and Learning Sciences, with a concentration in Literacy and English Language Arts, at North Carolina State University. Her research sits at the intersection of visual methodologies, embodied literacies, and alternative literacy... Read More →
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Emmanuel Anyetei Kojo Akogyeram

Doctoral Student, North Carolina State University
Emmanuel Anyetei Kojo Akogyeram is a doctoral student in Educational Leadership, Policy, and Human Development, with a concentration in higher education opportunity, equity, and justice, and a student affairs professional in higher education. Originally from Ghana, Emmanuel brings... Read More →
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Dr. María Heysha Carrillo Carrasquillo

Assistant Professor of Early Childhood Education, University of Hawai`i, West O'ahu
Dr. María Heysha Carrillo Carrasquillo is a scholar, educator, and storyteller whose work sits at the intersection of language, place, and social identity in multilingual education. María Heysha is an assistant professor of early childhood education at the University of Hawai`i... Read More →
Wednesday October 7, 2026 3:30pm - 4:30pm EDT
Lecture Hall

3:30pm EDT

Collage as Thought, Form, and Technology
Wednesday October 7, 2026 3:30pm - 4:30pm EDT
This panel convenes artist-educators across graphic design, illustration, painting, and sculpture to explore a shared premise: all visual art operates as a form of collage. Across disciplines, artists construct meaning by assembling visual elements drawn from observation, memory, imagination, and reference. Framing image-making through collage offers a powerful multimodal lens for understanding...
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Alaina Plowdrey Forehand

Director of Learning and Operations & Art/Philosophy Adjunct, Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts & Saint Leo University
Alaina Plowdrey Forehand (b. 1986) is an American figurative painter, scholar, and educator from Michigan. Her work explores portraiture as a site of encounter, examining how identity, memory, and embodiment emerge through the relationship between subject and beholder. Through layered... Read More →
avatar for Nathaniel Underwood

Nathaniel Underwood

Assistant Professor of Illustration, University of North Carolina - Charlotte
Nathaniel Underwood is an Assistant Professor of Illustration at UNC Charlotte. He received his BFA from the Columbus College of Art and Design and MFA in Painting from UNC Greensboro. Before teaching at UNC Charlotte, he taught life drawing at the Savannah College of Art and Design... Read More →
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Jimmy Rhea

Assistant Professor of Art - 3D Design and Sculpture, Pensacola State College
Jimmy Rhea received his Master of Fine Arts in 2007 at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He worked as a founder for three years at the Inferno Art Foundry in Atlanta, and as a carpenter, after completing his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree at the University of West Georgia. 
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Samira Shiridevich

Assistant Professor of Graphic Design, University of North Carolina - Charlotte
Samira Shiridevich is an Iranian designer and entrepreneur who explores the complexities of freedom, equity, and agency through design. She holds an MFA in Design and Visual Communications from the University of Florida and an MA in Visual Communications from the University of Art... Read More →
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Caitlin Rhea

Curator of Education and Public Programs & Sculpture Adjunct, Pensacola Museum of Art & University of West Florida
Caitlin Rhea is the Curator of Education and Public Programs at the Pensacola Museum of Art in Florida, where she offers engaging educational opportunities for visitors of all ages and is passionate about encouraging creative growth in the visual arts. She also works as an adjunct... Read More →
Wednesday October 7, 2026 3:30pm - 4:30pm EDT
Circular Church

3:30pm EDT

Shaping Visual Legacies: Memory, Identity, and Institutional Responsibility in Visual Literacy Education
Wednesday October 7, 2026 3:30pm - 4:30pm EDT
Every time an educator chooses an image, a story, or a text, they are making a decision about memory about what is worth passing forward and to whom. Universities shape those decisions more than they often realize, and the visual legacies they create carry consequences for generations.This panel brings together scholar-educators from National Louis University's College of Education whose work...
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Dr. Xiaoning Chen

Associate Professor, ESL/Bilingual Education, National Louis University
Xiaoning Chen, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of ESL/Bilingual Education at National Louis University. Dr. Chen has two decades of experience in language teacher education in the U.S. and internationally. Her research focuses on visual literacy, multicultural children’s literature... Read More →
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Ruth E. Quiroa, Ph.D.

Associate Professor; M.Ed. Reading Program and EdD. Teaching & Learning Program/Reading, Language, & Literacy Major Director, National Louis University
Ruth E. Quiroa, Ph.D. is an associate professor at National Louis University, teaching graduate youth literature and writing pedagogy, theory, and research courses. A former Spanish/English bilingual teacher (K, 2), her research focuses on the history and visual narratives of Latinx... Read More →
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Dr. Geri Chesner

Professor, Strategic Educational Leadership, National Louis University
Geri has focused on the power of children's literature and visual texts as catalysts for literacy development, with particular emphasis on visual and critical literacy. She serves as a professor at National Louis University in Chicago, IL, and has been an active member of IVLA for... Read More →
avatar for Dr. Karen F. Tardrew

Dr. Karen F. Tardrew

Professor, Chair of Learning Sciences in Education, National Louis University
Dr. Karen F. Tardrew is a tenured Professor and Chair of Learning Sciences in Education at National Louis University, where she has served for over 33 years as a scholar, leader, and innovator in educator development. Her teaching and research explore the intersections of visual... Read More →
Wednesday October 7, 2026 3:30pm - 4:30pm EDT
Studio

4:30pm EDT

Journal of Visual Literacy Editorial Session
Wednesday October 7, 2026 4:30pm - 5:30pm EDT
This interactive editorial session offers conference participants an opportunity to engage directly with the editorial vision, expectations, and publication processes of the Journal of Visual Literacy (JVL). Led by Editor-in-Chief Maria Avgerinou, the session will discuss current directions in visual literacy scholarship, emerging themes in the field, and the evolving role of visuals in an...
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Wednesday October 7, 2026 4:30pm - 5:30pm EDT
Lecture Hall
 
Thursday, October 8
 

9:00am EDT

From Research to Empathy and Back Again: Reconstructing an Assignment to Improve Student Outcomes
Thursday October 8, 2026 9:00am - 9:30am EDT
This presentation reports on the third year of collaboration between an art librarian and a health sciences librarian for an acting for medical simulation course module that prompts students to empathize with patients facing bias while considering how images convey complex meanings. Two changes were made to the assignment: the professors limited the patient’s medical issue to pain and the...
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avatar for Stefanie Hilles

Stefanie Hilles

Arts and Humanities Librarian, Miami University
Stefanie Hilles is the Arts and Humanities Librarian at Wertz Art and Architecture Library at Miami University where she liaises to the art, architecture and interior design, and theatre departments. Her instruction practice aims to embed information literacy into the creative processes... Read More →
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Megan Jaskowiak

Health and Social Sciences Librarian, Miami University
Megan Jaskowiak Health and Social Sciences Librarian. She liaises with Criminology, Gerontology, Psychology, Sociology, Speech Pathology and Audiology, Family Science and Social Work, and the Physician Associate Studies program. She has a Masters of Library and Information Science... Read More →
Thursday October 8, 2026 9:00am - 9:30am EDT
Circular Church

9:00am EDT

Lasting spiritual and religious visual legacies rendered in Latinx-themed picturebooks created by Latinx artists
Thursday October 8, 2026 9:00am - 9:30am EDT
This presentation outlines the findings of a study on the visual representation of spirituality and religion in Latinx-themed picturebooks illustrated by Latinx artists and published in the US from 1932 to 2026. It specifically examines how their illustrators strategically place iconic religious images into their visual narratives, creating well-rounded, believable Latinx protagonists and...
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Thursday October 8, 2026 9:00am - 9:30am EDT
Studio

9:00am EDT

Reimagining Post-16 pedagogy through Visual Literacy
Thursday October 8, 2026 9:00am - 9:30am EDT
With approximately 83% of information now disseminated visually (Zhu & Lim,2024), the need for learners to become visually literate “critical consumers” (Moje 2015, in Guo et al. 2024) is arguably of utmost importance. However, existing literature on Visual Literacy has often overlooked its potential as a skillset within Further Education. This study identifies curriculum areas where...
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Danielle Byatte

Learning Zone Officer, Preston College
Danielle Byatte is an educator based in Lancashire, UK. Having recently completed a Masters Degree in Education, Byatte seeks to develop and apply her research interests within both Visual Literacy & Social Justice to help strengthen the learner journey of students she works with. Working... Read More →
Thursday October 8, 2026 9:00am - 9:30am EDT
Lecture Hall

9:30am EDT

Curating with Care: Visual Text Selection as a Culturally Responsive Literacy Practice
Thursday October 8, 2026 9:30am - 10:00am EDT
What does it mean to choose a book for a group of students you are still learning to know? This presentation examines text selection as a visual literacy practice, one that requires educators to read images, illustrations, and visual narratives not only for aesthetic quality but for whose identities, experiences, and ways of knowing they center or erase. Drawing on work with the Literacy Community...
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Amber Moore

Doctoral student, North Carolina State University
Amber L. Moore is a doctoral candidate in Teacher Education and Learning Sciences, with a concentration in Literacy and English Language Arts, at North Carolina State University. Her research sits at the intersection of visual methodologies, embodied literacies, and alternative literacy... Read More →
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Haleema Khalil

Doctoral Candidate, North Carolina State University
Haleema Khalil is a doctoral candidate in Teacher Education and Learning Sciences at North Carolina State University, where she is advised by Dr. Jackie Relyea. She holds a master's degree from Vanderbilt University and brings a transnational perspective to her scholarship, having... Read More →
Thursday October 8, 2026 9:30am - 10:00am EDT
Circular Church

9:30am EDT

Illuminating Women’s Impact Through Illustration and Design in Nonfiction Biographical Picturebooks
Thursday October 8, 2026 9:30am - 10:00am EDT
Nonfiction biographical picturebooks for young people that center individuals who have made a difference across a wide range of fields are being published in notable numbers today. Reading and viewing these texts offers an engaging and meaningful way for young people to learn about the people whose ideas, creativity, and courage have shaped our world, made our lives easier and healthier, more...
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Dr. Geri Chesner

Professor, Strategic Educational Leadership, National Louis University
Geri has focused on the power of children's literature and visual texts as catalysts for literacy development, with particular emphasis on visual and critical literacy. She serves as a professor at National Louis University in Chicago, IL, and has been an active member of IVLA for... Read More →
Thursday October 8, 2026 9:30am - 10:00am EDT
Studio

9:30am EDT

Teaching Visual Ethics through Play
Thursday October 8, 2026 9:30am - 10:00am EDT
The World Economic Forum’s Global Risks Report 2025 identifies misinformation and disinformation as the most significant short-term global threat. At the same time, visual media—particularly images circulating through digital platforms—has become a powerful vehicle for spreading misleading information. Despite this shift toward image-driven communication, educational...
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Dana S. Thompson

Research and Instruction Librarian, Murray State University
Dana S. Thompson is a research and instruction librarian and associate professor at Murray State University. Dana currently serves as the President of the International Visual Literacy Association and has served as a member of the ACRL Visual Literacy Taskforce. Her research and teaching... Read More →
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Carol Record

Adjunct Instructor, Upper Iowa University
Carol Record is a graphic designer, photographer, game designer, and educator. As an adjunct instructor at Upper Iowa University, she teaches graphic design and photography, while also working as a graphic designer and game developer. In response to high demand, Carol founded Blackwater... Read More →
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Savannah Dodd

Founder and director of the Photography Ethics Centre, Queen's University Belfast
Savannah Dodd is a photographer and anthropologist. In 2017, Savannah founded the Photography Ethics Centre. Savannah earned her PhD in anthropology at Queen's University Belfast (2023) and her MA in anthropology and sociology from the Graduate Institute of International and Development... Read More →
Thursday October 8, 2026 9:30am - 10:00am EDT
Lecture Hall

10:00am EDT

Coffee and Tea Break
Thursday October 8, 2026 10:00am - 10:30am EDT
Thursday October 8, 2026 10:00am - 10:30am EDT
Garden

10:30am EDT

Learning to teach with images: Examining preservice teachers’ emergent practices
Thursday October 8, 2026 10:30am - 11:00am EDT
There is a growing recognition of the need to include diverse literacies in schools that support the informational and technological challenges students face today. Despite this goal, images in classrooms still typically function mainly as overlooked textbooks illustrations or as decoration. This study investigates a unit in a university social studies methods course in which preservice teachers...
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John Myers

Associate Professor, Florida State University
John Myers is an Associate Professor of Social Science Education at Florida State University. He completed doctoral studies at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto. He is particularly interested in the intersection of photography with civic education... Read More →
Thursday October 8, 2026 10:30am - 11:00am EDT
Studio

10:30am EDT

Memory as Compost: Food as Visual Material for MESI Sense-Making
Thursday October 8, 2026 10:30am - 11:00am EDT
Memory is often treated as archival—stable, stored, and retrievable (Schacter, 1996). This paper challenges that assumption by engaging memory through the metaphor of compost: a generative process in which fragments of lived experience decay, intermingle, and are reassembled into new meaning over time.Drawing on Musically Enhanced Self-Inquiry (MESI), a multimodal, autoethnographic...
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Emmanuel Anyetei Kojo Akogyeram

Doctoral Student, North Carolina State University
Emmanuel Anyetei Kojo Akogyeram is a doctoral student in Educational Leadership, Policy, and Human Development, with a concentration in higher education opportunity, equity, and justice, and a student affairs professional in higher education. Originally from Ghana, Emmanuel brings... Read More →
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Naomi Ramirez

Lecturer, San Diego State University
Dr. Naomi Ramirez teaches at multiple colleges, where she uses a critical multimodal lens to challenge Eurocentric ways of knowing and create more humanizing, inclusive learning spaces. She holds a PhD in Education from San Diego State University and Claremont Graduate University... Read More →
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Kaylen Alexandra

MFA student, Lindenwood University
Kaylen Alexandra is a Master of Fine Arts  student at  Lindenwood University studying creative writing. Her interests include researching a variety of ways to  practice emotional intelligence and leveraging creativity as a tool for healing. Her Substack publication, The Fifth Pillar... Read More →
Thursday October 8, 2026 10:30am - 11:00am EDT
Circular Church

10:30am EDT

The Color of Money: Currency Design as a Cultural Self-Portrait
Thursday October 8, 2026 10:30am - 11:00am EDT
We often think of money in purely economic terms, but it is also one of the most widely circulated visual artifacts that a country produces. Unlike art, monuments or even consumer goods, currency circulates constantly, reaching people across geographic regions, socio-economic classes, and generational brackets. As currency passes from hand to hand, its images of people, places, and symbols become...
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Eva Brumberger

Professor, Arizona State University
Eva is a professor of technical communication at Arizona State University. Her research interests include visual literacy, visual rhetoric, information and document design, and visual communication pedagogy. She has published in a variety of journals and co-edited an award-winning... Read More →
Thursday October 8, 2026 10:30am - 11:00am EDT
Lecture Hall

11:00am EDT

From the Same Soil: Collage, Oral History, and Place-Based Visual Literacy on Ohio’s Century Farms
Thursday October 8, 2026 11:00am - 12:00pm EDT
This campfire session shares one element of my larger on-going project documenting Ohio Century Farms — properties held by the same families for one hundred years or more — through oral history and digital collage. Century Farms represent endangered ways of seeing and inhabiting land amid converging threats: dwindling profit margins, generational crisis, and pressures from developers...
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Ashley Pryor

Associate Professor, University of Toledo
Ashley Pryor (Geiger) is a collage artist and Associate Professor of Philosophy & Religious Studies  and Honors affiliated faculty at The University of Toledo. Her collage work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, and appears in Kolaj Magazine, The Raw Art Review... Read More →
Thursday October 8, 2026 11:00am - 12:00pm EDT
Studio

12:00pm EDT

Lunch
Thursday October 8, 2026 12:00pm - 1:00pm EDT
Thursday October 8, 2026 12:00pm - 1:00pm EDT
Garden

1:00pm EDT

Family, Culture, and Place: Cultural Leisure Activities in the Moravian-Silesian Region of the Czech Republic
Thursday October 8, 2026 1:00pm - 1:30pm EDT
The frequency of contact with art and the degree of intergenerational transmission of cultural habits within the family environment represent key determinants in shaping pupils’ relationship to culture. This paper focuses on the analysis of families’ cultural leisure activities in the Moravian-Silesian Region of the Czech Republic as one of the crucial factors in the development of...
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Tomáš Koudela

assistant professor and vice-dean, University of Ostrava
Tomáš Koudela is an assistant professor and Vice-Dean for Communication and Creative Activities at the Faculty of Education, University of Ostrava. He serves as the head of the Visual Studies Centre and leads the interdisciplinary Visual Literacy Research Team. His research focuses... Read More →
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Timotej Blažek

postdoctoral researcher, University of Ostrava
Mgr. Timotej Blažek, Ph.D. (*1989) is an art educator and theorist in the field of art education. Since 2022, he has been working at the National Institute of Education and Youth, focusing on research and development in the educational area of Art and Culture, particularly art education... Read More →
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Tereza Čapandová

researcher assistant, University of Ostrava
Tereza Čapandová is a research assistant at the Faculty of Education, University of Ostrava, and a member of the Visual Literacy Research Team. She is currently completing her Ph.D. in Art Education, focusing on the concept of originality in the context of post-production theory... Read More →
Thursday October 8, 2026 1:00pm - 1:30pm EDT
Studio

1:00pm EDT

Memorializing the Hibakusha Experience: The Hiroshima-Nagasaki Memorial Collection Fifty Years On
Thursday October 8, 2026 1:00pm - 1:30pm EDT
The Hiroshima-Nagasaki Memorial Collection, the brainchild of the American Quaker nuclear abolitionist Barbara Reynolds (1915–1990), originated in Japan in the 1960s, as Reynolds strove to eradicate nuclear arms by shining a light on the plight of the A-bomb survivors. Following her relocation to the United States in 1969, after eighteen years abroad, she donated her archive—the likes...
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Claude Baillargeon

Professor of Art History, Department of Art, Art History and Design, Oakland University
Claude Baillargeon, PhD, MFA, is professor of art history at Oakland University in Rochester, MI, and an independent curator and writer, who divides his time between Metro Detroit and Toronto, Canada. His current scholarship investigates the nuclear era from the perspective of its... Read More →
Thursday October 8, 2026 1:00pm - 1:30pm EDT
Lecture Hall

1:30pm EDT

Seeing the Moon Through Time: Cultural Memory and Science Meaning-Making in Children’s Picturebooks
Thursday October 8, 2026 1:30pm - 2:00pm EDT
Research in science and visual literacy shows that visual images are central to how learners construct scientific meanings and images of who does science, and that thoughtfully designed visual work can particularly support underrepresented students’ confidence and participation, making classrooms more inclusive and identity‑affirming (Christidou et al., 2023; Duque‑Arellano, 2018). This...
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Dr. Xiaoning Chen

Associate Professor, ESL/Bilingual Education, National Louis University
Xiaoning Chen, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of ESL/Bilingual Education at National Louis University. Dr. Chen has two decades of experience in language teacher education in the U.S. and internationally. Her research focuses on visual literacy, multicultural children’s literature... Read More →
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Eun Kyung Ko

Professor, National Louis University
Eun Kyung Ko, Ph.D. is an educator and researcher committed to justice-focused, community-based, and culturally responsive teaching. Her work centers on preparing teachers to design meaningful, inclusive STEAM learning experiences for multilingual learners. She integrates AI as a... Read More →
Thursday October 8, 2026 1:30pm - 2:00pm EDT
Studio

1:30pm EDT

Talking Trees: A-bombed “Witness Trees" Teach Peace
Thursday October 8, 2026 1:30pm - 2:00pm EDT
Eighty years ago, one uranium bomb destroyed Hiroshima. Three days later, a plutonium bomb devastated Nagasaki. Among the ruins of both cities lay tens of thousands of casualties. Rumors spread that an “atomic plague” would leave Hiroshima barren for 75 years. Yet, by mid-September, fireweed and morning glory wound their way through the rubble and bloomed with vigor. In the months and...
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Katy McCormick

Associate Professor, School of Image Arts, Toronto Metropolitan University
Katy McCormick is a photo-based artist and educator born in Kansas City, Missouri, and based in Toronto. She received her MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. A member of the Atomic Photographers Guild since 2014, her work examines commemorative sites, revealing narratives... Read More →
Thursday October 8, 2026 1:30pm - 2:00pm EDT
Lecture Hall

2:00pm EDT

Coffee and Tea Break
Thursday October 8, 2026 2:00pm - 2:30pm EDT
Thursday October 8, 2026 2:00pm - 2:30pm EDT
Garden

2:30pm EDT

Seeing Without Seeing – Visual Imaginaries in Craft Learning
Thursday October 8, 2026 2:30pm - 3:00pm EDT
Craftsmakers’ understanding and knowledge are shaped through a complex weave of material, action, and communication. In the encounter with the possibilities and limitations of materials, in conversation with others, and through personal experience, imaginaries emerge that guide the making process (Andersson & Johansson, 2017). The development of becoming knowledgeable, skilled, and...
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Joakim Andersson

Senior Lecturer, HDK-Valand, University of Gothenburg
I hold a PhD in Educational Work and am a Senior Lecturer in Aesthetic Forms of Expression with a focus on Educational Sciences. My research examines communication and teaching in sloyd (craft education) as pedagogical and didactic tools, with particular attention to how students... Read More →
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Elena Raviola

Professor in Design Management and Director of the Business and Design Lab at the University of Gothenburg., HDK-Valand
Elena Raviola is Torsten and Wanja Söderberg Professor in Design Management and Director of the Business and Design Lab at the University of Gothenburg. She studies how digital technologies transform professional work, particularly in cultural and creative fields, and, ultimately, how human dis... Read More →
Thursday October 8, 2026 2:30pm - 3:00pm EDT
Studio

2:30pm EDT

The Invisible Architect: A Clearer View of AI Ethics and Positionality in Visual Education
Thursday October 8, 2026 2:30pm - 3:30pm EDT
When we ask AI to create an image, we often think we are getting a neutral reflection of our ideas. But beneath the surface, AI tools carry “Invisible Architects”, hidden biases and data-driven defaults that decide what "history," "freedom," or "culture" should look like. To achieve a clearer view of the AI landscape, we need a new visual vocabulary that...
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Sarah A. Faison

Doctoral Student and University Supervisor, NC State University
Former middle school English language arts teacher and school librarian. Currently attending NC State University as a doctoral student in the Teaching Education and Learning Sciences program with a concentration in Literacy, English Language Arts. Research interests include teacher... Read More →
Thursday October 8, 2026 2:30pm - 3:30pm EDT
Lecture Hall

3:00pm EDT

Manufactured Authenticity: Examining the Use of Hungarian Kalocsa Embroidery in It’s a Small World
Thursday October 8, 2026 3:00pm - 3:30pm EDT
With its infectious theme song and iconic visual design, It’s a Small World is possibly the most instantly recognizable attraction within the Disney Theme Parks family. Millions of people have experienced Disney’s interpretation of the world’s countries, cultures, and people since its installation at Disneyland in 1965. What is less known are the origins of the ride, which was...
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Michelle Demeter

Head of Undergraduate and Instructional Services, New York University
Michelle Demeter is the Head of Undergraduate and Instructional Services at New York University Libraries. She leads the development and facilitation of in-person and remote instructional services that support the research and creative endeavors of faculty and students across campus. Her... Read More →
Thursday October 8, 2026 3:00pm - 3:30pm EDT
Studio

3:30pm EDT

The Materiality of Dissent: exploring viewer perceptions of protest signs from the Flagship ‘No Kings’ rally using a visual literacy framework
Thursday October 8, 2026 3:30pm - 4:00pm EDT
Images of protest signs act as visual anchor points for social movements, serving not only to communicate messages but to record a moment in time and a place in history. In modern visual activism, images of ephemeral artifacts taken at local protests can be immediately shared digitally through online social networks. As visual tools for social change, protest signs are frequently designed and...
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K.E. Rajcic

Doctoral student and adjunct instructor, University of Minnesota
K.E. Rajcic, M.A. is a doctoral student and adjunct instructor at the University of Minnesota. 
Thursday October 8, 2026 3:30pm - 4:00pm EDT
Lecture Hall

3:30pm EDT

“Visual thinking” without the visual: Aphantasia and implications for visual literacy
Thursday October 8, 2026 3:30pm - 4:00pm EDT
Aphantasia, clinically defined just over a decade ago, is a neurodivergence that results in a person having little to no ability to internally visualize. The intertwining of visual literacy with visual thinking, often an assumed pairing, thus demands reconsideration with the knowledge that, , for some individuals, visual thinking simply does not exist. This presentation will define and explore the...
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Shawn McCann

Associate Professor, Oakland University
Shawn is an Associate Professor at Oakland University.
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Jackie Huddle

Head, Herron Art Library, Indiana University
Jackie is the Head of the Herron Art Library at Indiana University.
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Katie Greer

Professor, Oakland University
Katie is the VP of IVLA
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Rebecca Krystyniak

Visiting assistant professor, Oakland University
Rebecca is a Visiting Assistant Professor and the Health Sciences Librarian.
Thursday October 8, 2026 3:30pm - 4:00pm EDT
Studio
 
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