InterGedi 2026 International Conference
Digital recontextualization practices in expert knowledge communication
18th - 20th March 2026
Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad de Zaragoza (Spain)
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Elisabetta Adami (University of Leeds, UK)
Elisabetta Adami, PhD, is an associate professor of multimodal communication at the University of Leeds (United Kingdom). Her research develops a social semiotic perspective to multimodal communication and situated interaction. She is particularly interested in emergent, non-institutionalised sign-making practices that disrupt hegemonic aesthetic tenets and cultural discourses. Her publications involve practices in digital environments (on social media, digital literacies, web aesthetics and interactivity), in place (on urban visual landscapes and superdiversity), and in face-to-face interaction (in deaf-hearing interactions). She is a founding editor of the journal Multimodality & Society, former editor and in the editorial board of Visual Communication, Multimodal Communication, and Text & Talk, leads Multimodality@Leeds, and co-organises the international online series Multimodality Talks.
Kate Scott (Kingston University, London, UK)
Kate Scott, PhD, is an associate professor at Kingston School of Art in London. Her research focuses on the pragmatics of communication with a particular focus on digital and social media communication. She has published on a range of topics in this area including the pragmatics of hashtags, clickbait, memes, and sharing. Her book Pragmatics online was published in 2022 by Routledge. Kate is co-director of the Relevance Researchers’ Network and has recently been awarded a Leverhulme Research Fellowship Award (Sept 2025-Dec 2026) to research communication within multi-participant contexts such as social media platforms.
CALL FOR PAPERS
This conference invites contributions that explore the communicative practices through which specialized knowledge is disseminated by experts in and across digitally-mediated contexts. Particular attention is given to proposals which examine the processes of recontextualization involved in adapting specialized knowledge so that it is accessible, understandable and acceptable to multiple audiences. Contributions may approach recontextualization and digital dissemination practices from different theoretical and methodological perspectives: corpus studies, genre analysis, pragmatic approaches, multimodality, ethnography, intercultural communication and contrastive approaches.
Proposals will be sent to intergedi@unizar.es. All proposals will be submitted to a double-blind review process. The allocated time for presentations will be 20 minutes, followed by 10 minutes for discussion.
IMPORTANT DATES
| Abstract submission deadline | October 30th, 2025 |
| Notification of acceptance | December 19th, 2025 |
Conference fees
The fees are for the full conference and include the coffee breaks, reception on Wednesday, lunch on Thursday, and conference dinner on Thursday. Instructions to pay the registration fee will be given upon notification of acceptance.
- Early-bird: 175 EUR (until January 31st, 2026)
- Regular: 250 EUR (from February 1st, 2026)
- Student: 100 EUR
Registration for the InterGedi2026 International Conference will open once abstract proposals are notified for acceptance. Please, note that all conference participants must register to be included in the conference program and to receive a certificate of participation.
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PRACTICAL INFORMATION
Soon you will find here practical information for the conference. We will include a list of hotels close to the conference venue or located in the city centre. You will be able to check out the best travelling connections to come to Zaragoza as well as some recommended places for lunch and dinner around the city!
ACCOMMODATION
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ORGANISERS
This conference is one of the activities of the research project SciDis “Processes of recontextualisation in the transfer of knowledge: A pragmatic, linguistic and multimodal study of digital scientific discourse for dissemination purposes” (PID2021-122303NB-I00), funded by Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación, Gobierno de España.
Conference Organisers
Rosa Lorés Silvia Murillo Ana Eugenia Sancho-Ortiz
