Workshop - Ethnographic Expressions: Evaluating multimodal forms

Convenors:  Iza Kavedžija (Social Anthropology, Cambridge), Liana Chua (Social Anthropology, Cambridge), Natalia Buitron (Social Anthropology, Cambridge).

Speakers: Tim Cooper (University of Cambridge), Caroline Gatt (University of Graz), Laura Haapio-Kirk (University of Oxford), Maxime Le Calvé (Humboldt University Berlin), Wiebke Leister (Royal College of Art), Andrew Littlejohn (Leiden University), Julia Offen (Anthropology and Humanism), Anand Pandian (Johns Hopkins University), Manuela Pellegrino (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki), Tom Rice (University of Exeter), Alice Tilche (University of Leicester), Roxanne Varzi (University of California Irvine).

While ethnographic accounts have predominantly relied on academic writing, recent years have witnessed an increased interest in alternative forms of ethnographic expression and exploration. This two-day workshop brings together experts in fields where poetic and fictional writing, as well as sonic and visual explorations, form part of established practice, along with anthropologists experimenting with these methods in their ethnographic work. It aims to encourage interdisciplinary discussions of multimodal practice and the evaluation of these outputs in anthropology, with a particular focus on photo/image essays, sonic essays and ethnographic fiction. Each panel will open with a provocation by an expert with an established practice in the field, followed by three short panel presentations and a discussion.

Further information and link to registration is available here.

This event is supported by the Department of Social Anthropology, Cambridge Humanities Research Grant and CRASSH.