2026年3月17日：国際シンポジウム「応用を越えて：マルチモーダル人類学と多文化な教室」を開催

国際シンポジウム3月17日（火曜）「応用を越えて――マルチモーダル人類学と多文化な教室」International Symposium “Beyond Application: Multimodal Anthropology and Multicultural Classrooms”  

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懇親会は学生2000円、有職者4000円程度で南大沢駅近くを予定しています。

Because we are intentionally reserving a relatively small classroom, we would appreciate it if you could let us know your attendance, even if you are still undecided. The reception is planned near Minami-Osawa Station, with an estimated cost of around ¥2,000 for students and ¥4,000 for employed participants.

使用言語:英語

 場所：東京都立大学南大沢キャンパス　1-305号室

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Language: English

Venue: Tokyo Metropolitan University, Minami-Osawa Campus, Room 1-305

Date & Time: Sunday, March 17
Doors open at 13:30 / 14:00–17:30

Beyond Application: Multimodal Anthropology and Multicultural Classrooms

      This international symposium examines the intersection of multimodal anthropology and multicultural education.

The original research project was conceived as an attempt to apply multimodal anthropology to multicultural educational contexts. However, sustained teaching experience in classrooms composed of students from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds has revealed a more reciprocal dynamic. Rather than a one-way application of anthropology to education, insights generated through encounters with multicultural learners often feed back into anthropological thinking itself.

While educational debates have increasingly emphasized approaches that move beyond the transmission of knowledge toward drawing out students’ individuality and reflective capacities—often through writing—such practices also present limitations. Reading and writing require time, proficiency varies according to linguistic background and prior educational experience, and evaluative frameworks can unintentionally reinforce feelings of inadequacy or exclusion.

      In this context, multimodal forms of expression and production, which are often marginal to formal assessment systems, take on particular significance. In multicultural classrooms, they can lower barriers to participation, encourage self-expression, and enable students to relativize their own perspectives by engaging with those of others. When images or videos created by participants are shared and viewed collectively, experiences that were previously difficult to articulate verbally can be communicated with greater resolution, opening space for more productive dialogue.

      The symposium brings together educators and researchers who have learned multimodal methods across different cultural and institutional settings and adapted them to new contexts: digital storytelling developed in the United States and learned in India; in-camera editing techniques acquired in the United Kingdom and applied in Japan and Spain; pedagogical practices combining handmade objects and language in Brazilian schools; and workshop-based methods introduced into teacher education. By sharing these cycles of learning, teaching, and reflection, the symposium aims to create a space for collective insight into multimodal anthropology as a flexible educational toolkit.

This symposium is supported by JSPS KAKENHI Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) 24K00188.

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13:30- Doors Open 

14:00- Opening Remarks, Sachiko Tanuma

14:10-14:40 Kyoko Matsukawa

14:45 -15:15 Sachiko Tanuma

15:15 – 15:30 Break

15:30 – 16:00 Hiroyuki Nomoto

16:05 – 16:35 Ibis M. Álvarez 

16:35-16:45 Break 

16:45-17:00 Comments by Ran Muratsu

17:00 -17:30 General discussion

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The Practice of Digital Storytelling: Constructing Personal Narratives Together with Others

Kyoko Matsukawa

Department of Sociology, Faculty of Letters, Konan University

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Stepping Outside the Comfort Zone: Multimodal Anthropology with Everyday Media　

Sachiko Tanuma

Department of Social Anthropology, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Tokyo Metropolitan University

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Multimodal Production in Educational Activities at Paulo Freire School

Hiroyuki Nomoto

Department of Education, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Tokyo Metropolitan University

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Observing, Recording and Understanding the Everyday: Audiovisual Practices and Socio-Historical-Cultural Learning in Teacher Education

Ibis M. Alvarez 

Department of Basic, Developmental and Educational Psychology. Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Spain)

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Comments 

Ran Muratsu 

Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies