Dear Friends and Colleagues, Greetings from the Ethnography Lab; we hope you are well. In keeping with the recommendation of the University Provost, and the steps taken by the Anthropology Department at St. George, we are cancelling all Ethnography Lab events until further notice. We sincerely hope to reschedule them all for the Fall. Let … Continue reading
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Reading list:
Jan 24 2-4pm
Deleuze – Introduction: Repetition and Difference
Faye Ginsburg and Rayna Rapp, “Disability/Anthropology,” Current Anthropology 0, no. 0 (-Not available-): S000.https://doi-org.myaccess.library.utoronto.ca/10.1086/705503
Feb 7 10am-12pm
Deleuze – Chapter 1 Difference in Itself
Feb 28 2-4pm
Deleuze – Chapter 2 Repetition for Itself
March 13 10am-12pm
Deleuze – Chapter 3 The Image of Thought
March 20 2-4pm
Deleuze – Chapter 4 Ideas and the Synthesis of Difference
April 17 2-4pm
Deleuze – Chapter 5 Asymmetrical Synthesis of the Sensible
April 24 2-4pm
Deleuze -Conclusion
Proposed book and journal articles for monthly reading discussion group:
1. Deleuze, G., & Patton, P. (2014). Difference and repetition. London: Bloomsbury.
2. Select articles from Current Anthropology, Special Issue available here: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/ca/0/0
“Getting to Know the Community: gathering quantitative and qualitative data through census interviews” with Prof. Janice Boddy (University of Toronto)
Please join us for the Ethnography Lab Methods Café Series! Wednesday, March 11 at 12noon in AP 330 “Getting to Know the Community: gathering quantitative and qualitative data through census interviews” with Prof. Janice Boddy (University of Toronto). All are welcome! Continue reading
Performance Ethnography Working Group Update
The Performance Ethnography Working Group met for the first time on Friday the 7th of February, 2020 in the Sensorium Loft at York University. We had a diverse, multidisciplinary group of 15 participants. Some were of a humanities background, coming from Anthropology and Environmental Studies. Others were of a fine arts background, coming from Dance, … Continue reading
The Ethnographic Ear: Working with/in Sound
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
Workshop Series: Putting the Graphic in the Ethnographic: Experimenting with Collage
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
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Upcoming Events!
It was great to see so many people at our winter launch! If you missed it, please find our upcoming events here. Continue reading
COMMUNAL WRITING SESSION Every Tuesday from 9:00am to 4:00pm
Ethnography Lab Seminar Room 330 Anthropology Building If you think that writing ethnography can also be a shared experience or a shared commitment with peers, consider dropping by to work on your writings as it best suits your schedule. The room will be available every Tuesday throughout the semester. Continue reading
