VISION’s Piotr Goldstein and Olga Łojewska convened the roundtable Visual, Sensory and Multimodal Methods in East European Studies at the ASEEES Convention in Washington, DC.
Visual methods, used by anthropologists, visual sociologists and others, have long been present in the study of Eastern Europe (see e.g. Razsa 2015, Goldstein & Lorenz 2019). More recently, we have been experiencing a certain ‘sensory turn’ where not only image but also sound, smell and other sensory qualities of our research field become our research data (see e.g. Śliwa and Riach 2012, Łojewska 2024). This in turn sparks interest in multimodal research and publishing which profit from innovations in today’s data recording and (online) publishing. This roundtable brought together scholars who use multimodal methods and those who in their research focus on visual and sensory material from their research field.
At the roundtable, Olga and Piotr made a short presentation entitled ‘Researching with Sound and Vision in the Polish-German Border Region’ based on their research in the VISION project.