The Urban Ethnography Lab is a research initiative between Berlin and Toronto, which will straddle the disciplinary boundaries of urban anthropology and human geography, with the intended purpose of promote rigorous experimentation with innovative ethnographic research techniques in urban settings. We are offering a workshop in August 2017 to bring together scholars and graduate students …
The Ethnography Lab in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Toronto will be running a week-long anthropology program for high-school students interested in culture, social change, and history. Students from local high-schools will have a chance to explore Kensington Market’s history as one of Canada’s most celebrated multicultural neighborhoods. As they learn about …
Please join faculty and graduate students from Osaka University and University of Toronto for an open workshop in which we explore how attention to infrastructure might guide us to see the complex dynamics among various human and nonhuman beings that constitute the world, opening up new questions about how to live in a world of …
Ethnographic Objects: Materialities and Meanings The Ethnography Lab is excited to launch its 2016-2017 Workshop Series. This year, the series will focus on experimenting with different techniques for interpreting ethnographic data. Once primary data has been gathered in the field, every ethnographer must grapple with deciding which techniques are best suited to analyzing it before …
You are invited to a graduate student workshop on Friday May 5th in the Department of Anthropology, room 246 from 10:00 – 5:30 pm. Please find the Workshop Poster and the Workshop Agenda here. Continue reading
The Ethnography Lab’s visual ethnography group aims to offer hands-on experience in visual research documentation and to promote a thorough understanding of the conceptual, ethical, and stylistic issues involved in this continually evolving methodology. We focus primarily on audio-visual methods, but photography, new media, and other visual input is welcomed. This fall (2016) we will … Continue reading
I regret to inform you that the following workshop has been canceled: Organizational Charts, April 6th, 5-6:30 pm. Please adjust your calendars. Continue reading
THE PLAYLIST Thursday, March 23rd, 5-6:30pm Playlists—sequences of songs—are a routine interface for the use of information and communication machines. What kind of data are playlists? How can ethnographers interpret technologically assembled, affectively charged sound sequences? Thinking about playlists as artifacts involves considering how they come into being, what the relations between their elements symbolize, and how they … Continue reading
For the second year in a row, students from the Munk One program were hosted in the ethnography lab for an ethnographic research practicum as part of our Kensington Market Research Project. You may read a short blog post about their experiences at: http://munkschool.utoronto.ca/one/student-blog/reflections-on-the-ethnography-lab/ Continue reading
Thursday, January 12, 5-6:30pm The Ethnography Lab is pleased to continue its 2016-2017 Workshop Series a workshop about video interviews. Video is an efficient and accessible means of documenting and disseminating what happens in an ethnographic interview. When used together with a transcript, for example, a wealth of visual cues complements the text. While researchers can write things like … Continue reading
Students from Prof. Tania Li’s fall 2015 course entitled ‘Ethnographic Practicum: Ethnography of the University’ compiled blog posts and documents from their experience conducting ethnography of the power structures that shape the University of Toronto. Click on items from the drop-down menu for more information. Continue reading
Professor Tania Li has received funding from the Dean’s International Initiatives Fund (DIIF) to cover air fare and living costs for 4 students to travel to Kerala, India, for internships at the Centre for Research and Education for Social Transformation (CREST). The commitment is for two months, May-June (2 interns) and July-August (2 interns). Six … Continue reading
