[narrative and multimodality conference]

Whew. I'm back in my funky hotel room, windowless but complete with a 42 inch plasma screen with a web cam view of Birmingham city centre - how transliterate.

After a full day of interesting talks - including plenaries from David Herman (he even did a bit on the multimodality of The Hulk!) and Sue Thomas (developing the idea of transliteracy and including an excellent video on how to eat kumquats) - I'm still digesting what was said/shown/enacted. Highlights, besides the plenaries, included Astrid Ensslin's paper on Kate Pullinger and babel's The Breathing Wall (a gold star goes out to Alice Bell who provided the breathing!) and Ruth Gregson's presentation on tv adaptations (she had a few funny quotes including: "bull*%$£ baffles brains"). Although the day was heavy in theory, it was lighthearted with everyone open to new ideas and various offers of different directions in which to take the concept of "multimodality."