Multimodal Research Methodologies with Children and Youth

Hybrid symposium. For online participation register here.

Programme

March 5

• 8.50–9.10 Registration
• 9.15–9.20 Welcome and housekeeping
• 9.20–11.00 Session 1: Between Roots and Routes: Young People's Spatial Attachments
  (chair: Kim Chi Tran & Camilla Morelli)
  • Charlie Rumsby: Seeing Otherwise: Graphic Anthropology and the Multimodal Representation of Stateless Lives
  • Laura J. Ogden, Vera Klocke & Rachel Yeboah Afari: Listening from and to the margins: Podcasting as co-research methodology with transnational migrant-background youth
  • Mateja Sedmak, Zorana Medarić & Barbara Gornik: Child-centred approach to research of migrant children
  • Natalia Pineda Quintero: Mapping territory through embodied experience: multimodal research with racialized girls
  • Charles-Édouard de Suremain: Towards an “emic multimodal approach”? Exploration based on the narrative of a child guide in Mexico
• 11.00–11.30 Coffee break
• 11.30–13.10 Session 2: Youth Navigating Digital Publics
  (chair: Barbara Turk Niskač & Kim Chi Tran)
  • Kristina Rakinić: Employing a Multimodal Participatory Methodology to Examine Adolescents’ Perspectives on Immoral Content and Acts on Social Media
  • Lamiae Zeriouh: Where Visual Technologies Carry Us Home: Youth, Multimodality and Cultural Revitalization in Indigenous Contexts
  • Ekta Singla: Reliability, Consent and Researcher Positionality in a Multimodal Case Study on Children’s Literacies from Global South
  • Sabrina Fialho, Roberto Falanga, Ana Sofia Ribeiro dos Santos & Anabela Carvalho: Acknowledging children’s diversity through multimodal research methods: Legislative Theatre as an inclusive approach
  • Manuel García Gándaras & Inès Dinant: Exploring “Phygital” Youth: Methodologies for Studying Connected Realities
• 13.10–14.45 Lunch break
• 14.45-16.25 Session 3: Narrating Childhood and Youth through Images
  (chair: Camilla Morelli & Barbara Turk Niskač)
  • Manca Filak: The ambivalences of filming intimate and domestic areas and children
  • Sarah Anschütz: Drawn (on)to screens: introducing thematic illustrations as a methodological approach for conducting research with youth
  • Mari Korpela: Hanging Out: Ethnographic film as a multimodal experience with teenagers
  • Ashley Stewart-Tufescu, Bree Akesson & Karen Frensch: Visual-Tactile Storytelling with Children and Young People in Humanitarian Contexts: The Life Story Board Method with Rohingya Children and Youth
  • Léa Klaue: Resilience, Vulnerability, and Decolonial Childhoods: Collaborative Audiovisual Research with Working Children in Bolivia

March 6

• 9.20–11.00 Session 1: The Diverse Terrain of Youth Political Power
  (chair: Kim Chi Tran & Camilla Morelli)
  • Paulina Jara Osorio: Protagonist and intergenerational participation in public policies through the mosaic approach method
  • David Kendall: Seeing Change: Creative Storytelling, Experiential and Social Learning and Multimodal Practice in Youth Leadership and Participation
  • Nicoletta Sciarrino & Roberta Bosisio: How to Study Children’s Activism: Ethnographic Experiences (and Experiments)
  • Juhi Adhikari, Laura Wright, Laura Lee & Claire Paterson-Young: Relational arts-based multimodal methodologies for Social Transformation, Emotional Expression and Leadership of young women in Nepal
  • Marta Korchemlyuk & Elisabeth Wiegele: Multimodal Youth Engagement in the Nature for Peace Concept implementation
• 11.00–11.30 Coffee break
• 11.30–13.10 Session 2: Care, Consent, and Creativity: Ethics in Youth Multimodal Research
  (chair: Camilla Morelli & Barbara Turk Niskač)
  • Ali Bedir: An Assessment of the Challenges in Conducting Multimodal Research with Young Kurdish Populations in Turkey's Southeastern Anatolia Region (Kurdish District)
  • Sonja Radivojević & Katarina Mitrović Ražnatović: A Prelude to Ethnography with Children: Ethical and Methodological Foundations for Multimodal Research with Children in Serbia
  • Pola Gradowska, Martyna Chojnowska & Zofia Link: Multimodal Methodologies: Unexpected Encounters with Children's Worlds
  • Élodie Razy: Using drawings in anthropology: Epistemological insights and ethical dilemmas from three research projects
  • Joelma Andreão de Cerqueira: Children´s circulation and play in a Brazilian small city: Ethical issues from multimodal methodologies
• 13.10–14.45 Lunch break
• 14.45–16.25 Session 3: Tracing Young Lives' Relationalities through Multimodality
  (chair: Barbara Turk Niskač & Camilla Morelli)
  • Maja Zadel & Lucija Dežan: Multimodal, community-based and decolonial methodologies in the EXPECT_Art project: Insights from the Slovenian fieldwork
  • Kim Chi Tran: Using Multimodality to Centre Youth’s Perspectives on Intergenerational Socio-ecological Learning in Mongolia’s Countryside
  • Alice Sophie Sarcinelli & Monika Weissensteiner: It's (not) just my imagination. Weaving together creativity into anthropology of childhood
  • David Dhert: Reimagining the Horizon: A drawing game to bring out children’s visions on their life environment
  • Dilraba Anayatova, Marina Basu, Andrea Weinberg, Iveta Silova, Carrie Karsgaard & Ann Nielsen: The Sun Touches Everything: Children’s Solar Attunement in an Urban Desert
• 16.25–16.40 Closing remarks

Organizing commitee

Dr. Barbara Turk Niskač
The Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts

Dr Camilla Morelli
University of Bristol 

Dr. Kim Chi Tran
Carinthia University of Applied Sciences

Technical support: Lamiae Zeriouh, University of Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah

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