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.
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 … Continue reading
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
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
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
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
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
