Kay O’Halloran is plenary speaker at the “Disciplinarity, Knowledge and Language” symposium to be held at the University of Sydney, Australia (8th to 10th December 2008), hosted by ASFLA, the School of Letters, Art and Media and the School of Social and Political Studies.

Plenary Speakers:

• Rob Moore (University of Cambridge)
• Peter Freebody (University of Sydney)
• Joe Muller (University of Capetown)
• Jim Martin (University of Sydney)
• Parlo Singh (Griffith University)
• Kay O’Halloran (University of Singapore)
• Karl Maton (University of Sydney)
• Susan Feez (University of New England)
• Fran Christie (University of Sydney)

The Multimodal Analysis Lab is looking to hire Computer Scientist/Programmers, Research Fellows and Research Assistants!

The National Research Foundation’s (NRF) Interactive Digital Media (IDM) R&D program within the Media Development Authority (MDA) of Singapore approves large-scale funding for the Events in the World research project.

• The Business Times, 24 April 2007 : NUS pump $11m into digital media institute
• Straits Times, 24 April 2007 : Video gaming turns into ‘pet’ project at NUS centre
• National University of Singapore NewsHub, 25 April 2007