Rationale:
Across the social sciences, scholars are increasingly engaging with creative and multimodal forms of knowledge production. At this workshop, participants will discuss their work with comics, video-making, film programming, artists’ residencies, literary ethnography, podcasts, and other inventive approaches to research and writing. These practices open possibilities that exceed the boundaries of traditional academic prose—not only methodologically, but also epistemologically—by offering new ways of apprehending and conveying social experiences. The aim of this workshop is to explore how such alternative forms of writing and representation can meaningfully coexist with, and even enhance, conventional scholarly outputs. Rather than treating creative modalities as add-ons or outreach tools, we seek to understand how they can transform the very processes through which we analyze, interpret, and communicate research. What do these forms allow us to know, sense, or reveal that standard academic texts cannot? How might multimodal experimentation reshape our analytical practices, ethical commitments, and engagements with wider publics? By bringing together scholars who are already experimenting with these practices, the workshop invites a collective reflection on the methodological and epistemological contributions of creative research. Our goal is to imagine how a richer plurality of writing modes can deepen our understanding of the social world and broaden the ways we participate in scholarly conversation.
Organisers:
Jérémy Jammes, IRASEC
Corrado Neri, CEFC Taipei
Beatrice Zani, CNRS
Program:
https://www.irasec.com/IMG/pdf/alternative_writing-programme.pdf
Speakers:
Valentine Boucq
Yin C. Chuang, Taiwan Normal University
Alex Desmules, Tianma Project
Morgan Fraisse-László, French Office in Taipiei (BFT)
Emilie ‘Emy’ Garcia
Wafa Ghermani, National Central University (Taiwan)
Jérémy Jammes, IRASEC
James Lee, Academia Sinica
Corrado Neri, CEFC Taipei
Chang Wen-chin, Academia Sinica
Beatrice Zani, CNRS
