CoronAsur: Asian Religions in the Covidian Age, edited by Emily Zoe Hertzman, Erica M. Larson, Natalie Lang, and Carola E. Lorea. Register here: https://uoft.me/CoronAsur. January 26, 2024, 930-1130amOnline, via Zoom ABOUT THE BOOK By the summer of 2020, when the coronavirus had fully entered our everyday vocabulary and our lives, religious communities and places of … Continue reading
Category Archives: Ethnography Lab
ON THE OCCASION OF THE AAA/CASCA
The Ethnography Lab is thrilled to present a series of AAA/CASCA-adjacent events in November: THURSDAY NOVEMBER 17, 2023 Selective Listening and Wishful Hearing: Shaping Soundscapes in Toronto’s Kensington MarketFarzaneh Hemmasi (farzaneh.hemmasi@utoronto.ca)Metro Toronto Convention Center, Room 703No registration required. As part of the Transmissions/Transitions Sound Installation at AAA: The Kensington Market Soundscape Study is a community-engaged … Continue reading
ON THE OCCASION OF THE AAA/CASCA
The Ethnography Lab is organizing AAA-adjacent events in November. They include a community-engaged ethnographic project about the soundscapes of Toronto’s Kensington Market, a discussion about local economic resilience with community activists, an exploration of playful ethnography, a scholar-based DJ event, and a book launch on Asian religions in the Covidian age. Continue reading
SAVE THE DATE: Play! Infrastructures of Collaborative Ethnography (November 17, 2023)
What is playful ethnography?Join us for some interactive fun with games, schemes, and diversions about ethnographic fidelity, guilt, composition, and fieldwork friendship. These experiments derive from a collaborative ethnographic project on play conducted by ethnography lab members Noha Fikry Ismail, Kassandra Spooner-Lockyer, Jean Chia, and Nick Smith. The event will begin with brief introductory remarks … Continue reading
Roundtable Discussion (Nov. 16): Sounds of/like A Mixed Use Neighborhood, Community and Conflict in Post-Lockdown Kensington
Please join the Ethnography Lab for the roundtable discussion: Sounds of/like A Mixed Use Neighborhood, Community and Conflict in Post-Lockdown Kensington. Date: November 16, 2022 Time: 5-6 PM Location: AP 246, Department of Anthropology At this roundtable, members of the Kensington Market Soundscape Study will present preliminary research and methodological reflections from their summer work … Continue reading
Upcoming Talk on Friday, Oct. 21 with Professor Rodrigo Ochigame
Please join us for the upcoming talk: The Paragenealogical Method in the Anthropology of Rationalities with Professor Rodrigo Ochigame Lunch will be provided! Date: Friday, October 21 Time: 12 pm Location: Ethnography Lab Seminar Room, AP330, Anthropology Building Event Description: Since the Cold War, the concept of rationality has become increasingly associated with certain formal … Continue reading
Join the Ethnography Lab! A call for Student Convener Applications
The Ethnography Lab would like to announce the opening of several volunteer convener positions to provide unique opportunities for ethnography-focused collaborations, mentorship, research, projects, and presentations based on thematic interests. The call is open to undergraduate and graduate students across all three campuses and disciplines. The Ethnography Lab invites applications for up to four (4) … Continue reading
Introducing Laura Carvalho, the Lab’s new co-Coordinator!
The @EthnographyLab team is happy to welcome our new co-coordinator for the 2022-2023 academic year, Laura Carvalho! Laura is PhD student in sociocultural anthropology at the University of Toronto with an enthusiasm for rivers, anarchism and imaginary politics. Laura holds an MPhil from the Department of Anthropology at the National Museum, Federal University of Rio … Continue reading
Check out our Zoom recordings for the 2021-22 academic year!
We’ve uploaded our event recordings for the 2021-2022 academic year. Check out the videos below or head over to our YouTube page and subscribe! Meet the Labs: Speculative and Collaborative Ethnographic Practice from Vancouver to Los Angeles (November 26, 2021) The Ethnography Lab at the University of Toronto facilitates an encounter between Kate Hennessy of … Continue reading
Ethnography Lab: Summer Ethnographic Dissertation Writing Bursary
NEW OPPORTUNITY Ethnography Lab: Summer Ethnographic Dissertation Writing Bursary (***for Anthropology Grad Students from UofT only***) The Ethnography Lab invites applications from post-fieldwork doctoral students for a bursary valued at $6000 to support 15 weeks of intensive ethnographic writing in the period May 1 to August 31, 2019. The bursary is intended primarily for students … Continue reading