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
Category Archives: Events
The Ethnography Lab aims to put on a small-scale regular speaker series during the academic year. The events typically take place on Friday afternoons at 5pm in room AP330 at 19 Russell Street (please see our map; link above).
Our interest group clusters are responsible for planning and organizing talks about the facets of ethnographic research and engagement. Please contact the cluster convenor if you would like to propose a topic or offer yourself as a speaker.
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
Announcement: Urban Ethnography Lab Workshop in Berlin, Sept. 5-8, 2018
The Ethnography Lab would like to announce an upcoming workshop organized by our colleagues Carolin Genz and Dr. Aylin Yildirim Tschoepe at the Urban Ethnography Lab (an offshoot of the EL). The workshop, entitled Beyond Urban Transformation, will be held at Humboldt University in Berlin at the Georg Simmel Centre for Metropolitan Studies, and is funded … Continue reading
Event: Dissertation to Manuscript: Publishing with a University Press
DESCRIPTION Are you writing your dissertation or recently finished and wondering how to turn your dissertation into a book manuscript? This workshop is meant to address the What (types of manuscripts are UPs looking for), When (in your career), Where (to try to get a contract) and How (to write a book proposal) of navigating academic publishing … Continue reading
Video: Book-Binding Workshop at the Ethnography Lab
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Book Binding Workshop for Ethnographers and Others, June 4th 2-4pm
We are looking for 10 participants to join an exciting Beginner Bookbinding Workshop. In this workshop, Tarlen Handayani, a bookbinder, craftsperson and entrepreneur from Indonesia, will teach a small group of anthropologists and others how to make personal field notebooks with simple techniques of bookbinding. The workshop will be held in the Ethnography Lab, room … Continue reading
Workshop: (Re)Thinking Diversity & Comparison – May 4th, 10am-4pm
Our colleagues at the University of Toronto have organized a workshop on May 4th (10AM-4PM, AP246) as a part of the Osaka University summer exchange program that happens annually at the anthropology department and is run by Prof. Shiho Satsuka, along with Profs. Bonnie McElhinny and Girish Daswani. The workshop theme is about multiplying our … Continue reading
