Multimodal Seminar Mark, Metje, Koen 8 September 9-12h

The Seminar will focus on the notion of Multimodal Anthropology and the way it challenges us to take different ways of knowing seriously. Extending the learning objectives of the tutorial series, the seminar aims to push students to ethnographically learn to know through different modalities. This seminar explores the epistemological potential of recording sensory and embodied features of social experience, but asks how we maintain the ontological status of lived experiences while trying to communicate ethnographic research to both our audiences and our subjects.

We begin with each instructor providing an introduction to their practice as multimodal research-creation. This is meant to provide students with both a diverse understanding of the practices we support and the particular interests and experience of each instructor. Following this session, students will be asked to complete an intake form where they indicate their supervisor preference.

The second half of the session will require students to lead in a discussion of multimodality based on the recorded lectures, assigned readings, and other materials.