Ethnography Lab Speaker Series 2018-2019 While the ethnographic method is conventionally understood as a combination of fieldwork, participant observation, notetaking, and textual analysis, the speakers in this series reflect on their practice and commitment to alternative ethnographic methods such as videography, performance art, map-making, sonography, and poetry. There is a long history of experimental ethnographic … Continue reading
Author Archives: Emily Hertzman
Video Ethnography and Policing Mental Health
The Ethnography Lab would like to announce an upcoming talk by Dr. Jerry Flores, Assistant Professor in Sociology at the University of Toronto. The talk, entitled Video Ethnography and Policing Mental Health in the US, will be held on Wednesday, October 17th, from 6:00-8:00 pm in the Ethnography Lab, Room 330, Department of Anthropology, 19 … Continue reading
Ethnography Lab Speaker Series 2017-2018
For the 2017/2018 academic year, the Ethnography Lab is excited to present Methodological Extensions, a series of panel presentations exploring non-traditional methods or sites of ethnographic research. The series consists of four separate panel discussions, each presenting the work of faculty members, graduate and undergraduate students, who are working either collaboratively or independently, with specific … Continue reading
Call for Participants
The Urban Ethnography Lab is holding a workshop about experimental ethnographic methods for urban research on August 29 – 30, 2017 in Toronto. Apply to attend by sending a CV and statement of motivation! Continue reading
Apply Today for the Summer High School Program at the Ethnography Lab
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 … Continue reading
BRIDGING STRANGERS WITHIN: Reflections on Indigeneity, Diversity and Multiculturalism
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
VISIBLE & INVISIBLE: INFRASTRUCTURE & POLITICS OF COHABITATION
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 … Continue reading
Workshop Canceled
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
Upcoming Workshop: The Playlist
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
Munk One Students Learn About Ethnographic Research
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