Date: Thursday February 27, 2020Time: 4:00-5:30PMLocation: Room 330, Anthropology Bldg, 19 Russell Street, Toronto Abstract: The city constitutes a prime battleground for olfactory politics. The large population, the competing interests, the variety of stakeholders, and the dynamic pace of redevelopment all contribute to contestations about the best use of the public commons that is the atmosphere. …
It was great to see so many people at our winter launch! If you missed it, please find our upcoming events here.
Date: Wednesday February 12, 2020Time: 12 NoonLocation: Room 330, Anthropology Bldg, 19 Russell Street, Toronto On Wednesday, February 12, University of Toronto Ethnomusicology Prof. Farzaneh Hemmasi and doctoral candidate Nil Basdurak will introduce participants to some of the central questions, theories, challenges and opportunities associated with ethnographic approaches to sound, sounding and listening at Ethnography Lab‘s Methods Café. They will … Continue reading
Friday, February 7, 2020 | 1:00 PM 3:00 PMSpeaker: Maya El Helou, PhD Student, Department of Anthropology, The University of Toronto This workshop proposes experimenting with collage as a medium of making sense out of the mess of social theory. It continues an initiative begun last year of informal workshops designed to encourage ethnographers to experiment with different mediums to enhance their engagement—visually … Continue reading
When: Friday, February 14th, 2:30PM Where: Ethnography Lab Boardroom The AGSU and Ethnography Lab will be hosting a film screening of the short documentary Invasion, followed by a discussion about the work of Wet’suwet’en land and water protectors and ways that anthropologists living and working on Indigenous lands can act in solidarity with the Wet’suwet’en … Continue reading
After tackling Silverstein and Bourdieu, the Linguistic Anthropology Reading Group is moving onto Agha and Goffman. The upcoming schedule is listed below. In addition to working through these readings, there will be opportunities to discuss group members’ research.If you’d like to learn more or join our group email list, please contact Lynda.chubak@mail.utoronto.ca or joseph.wilson@utoronto.ca All LingAnth keeners welcome! … Continue reading
Please join us for the first workshop of the Performance Ethnography Working Group, a joint initiative of the Centre for Imaginative Ethnography at York University and the Ethnography Lab at the University of Toronto. The workshop will take place this Friday, February 7th from 2-5pm. Please RSVP for the workshop here, so that we can anticipate … Continue reading
