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Visual narratives occupy an increasingly important place in the cultural imagination. Reality TV offers an addictive visual chronicle of people's lives, while advertising uses visuals to evoke our desires. Studies of life experiences also resort to visual media to research and record participants' stories: constructing a photographic diary is even 'prescribed' as part of some hospital treatments. In the visual arts, on the other hand, there is increasing emphasis on narrative content - autobiographical or fictional. Does every picture tell a story, and how is a story told in pictures different from one in text? Speakers: Valerie Walkerdine, professor of psychology, Cardiff University; artist Chad McCail, whose paintings use a simplified visual language to create humorous comic strip narratives; Rachel Moore, lecturer at Birkbeck; and James Lowther, chairman of M & C Saatchi. Chair: Corinne Squire, co-director of the Centre for Narrative Research at UEL.