Center of Multimodal and Audio-Visual Methods - Leiden University

ReCNTR is an interdisciplinary and interfaculty research center focused on promoting multimodal and audiovisual research methods in social science, humanities and the arts. It is supported by the Institute of Cultural Anthropology, the Institute of Political Science, the Center of the Arts in Society at Leiden University, the Academy of Creative and Performing Arts and by the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences. The center is premised on the acknowledgement of a “post-textual turn” in our disciplines, and ambitions to promote practices of making in a novel economy of knowledge production. It is aimed at bringing together researchers around the idea that making – as in filmmaking, photographing, drawing, etc. – are forms of thinking, and thus important methodologies for the social sciences and humanities. Making is not understood as separate from, or in dialogue with, scientific work, but as a practice and methodology of scientific work. The center’s concrete mission is thus to provide a space – both physical and intellectual – for established and emerging scholars dispersed within and outside Leiden University, as well as artists and makers interested in engaging with academic institutions, in order to facilitate the development of this new research agenda. https://www.recntr.nl