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Dear All,

Melissa Nolas and I are organising a panel at this year's EASA 2020
conference in Lisbon in Portugal on ‘Languages of entanglement: mapping
ethnographic modes and media’, in which we aim to explore and showcase the
current state of multimodal ethnographic research:
https://nomadit.co.uk/conference/easa2020/p/8417# (And blurb below)

The panel is a ’nearly carbon neutral format’ which means that presenters
can do virtual presentations, or given the theme of the panel, can submit
audio-visual compositions or other recorded performative pieces and don’t
have to be there in person to present.

Deadline for submissions is *January 20th, 2020.*

With thanks and best wishes,

Christos and Melissa

*P039 Languages of entanglement: mapping the ethnographic modes and media
[NCN]*

*Short abstract: *The panel brings together a growing international and
interdisciplinary network of anthropologists engaged in the burgeoning
field of multimodal ethnography to address issues related to the selection,
curation, production, review, dissemination and consumption of audio-visual
and other compositions.

*Long abstract:* Recent years have seen a burgeoning interest in multimodal
research in anthropology, as well as cognate disciplines. As a visual,
aural, inventive, artistic, and experimental practice that takes place
within and beyond the academy, multimodal ethnography, calls for a new
scholarship and pedagogical languages and practices to support its
flourishing. While this field of research and practice has a long and
diverse history, it is currently undergoing something of a 'coming of age'
and we aim to explore this liminal space and its tropes. This panel brings
together a growing international and interdisciplinary network of
multimodal ethnographers, to address issues pertinent to the nurturing of
this rapidly expanding field including but not limited to the role of the
following in multimedia and multimodal anthropological compositions: the
role of production, curation and re-presentation; the appreciation, re-view
and feedback of audio-visual compositions; the sites of knowledge and
power; the collaborative, transformative, and unfolding temporalities of
production; audiences, publics, and other collectivities. The panel is
supported by the online, open access journal entanglements: experiments in
multimodal ethnography, and its growing network. The panel is also a
precursor to an application for a more permanent 'multimodal ethnography'
EASA network. The "Nearly Carbon Neutral" and pre-recorded presentation
formats will be adopted so as to enable scholars, who may not have the
means to attend, to participate, and to encourage creative presentations
especially given the panel's focus on multimodality.

https://nomadit.co.uk/conference/easa2020/p/8417#

--

Dr Christos Varvantakis


Department of Sociology
Goldsmiths, University of London


Co-Editor: *entanglements*: experiments in multimodal ethnography


Co-Director, Childhood Publics Research Programme



Latest papers:

Varvantakis, C, Nolas, S-M. and Aruldoss, V. (2019) Photography, politics
and childhood: exploring children’s multimodal relations with the public
sphere.
In Visual Studies

Nolas, S-M., and Varvantakis, C. (2019) Field notes for amateurs

. In Social Analysis. Open Access.

Varvantakis, C. and Nolas, S.-M. (2019) Metaphors we experiment with in
multimodal ethnography.
In
International Journal of Social Research Methodology. Open Access.
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