This three-day workshop introduces the concept of multimodal history and explores some of the challenges and opportunities of doing research alongside communities in a meaningfully inclusive and non-extractive mode. Scholars and community-based partners are invited to reflect on completed or ongoing research from the perspective of ethics, practice, and the politics of care. Topics include oral history and public storytelling in the aftermath of hurricane landfalls in Puerto Rico, environmental knowledge in the oral tradition and narrative song of Kom, Cameroon, personal narratives of Palestinian fellahin under colonial rule, and the decolonization and repatriation of Southeast Asian recorded sound archives.

Please note: The panel discussion on September 24 (at the MPIWG) and the film screening on September 25 (at Spore Initiative) are open to the public. For reasons of space, places at the workshop are limited. If interested, please contact Jesse Olszynko-Gryn to check on availability and to register.