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
Category Archives: Events
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
The Video Interview: A Workshop
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
Magical Objects: A Workshop
Thursday, November 24th, 5-6:30pm The Ethnography Lab is pleased to launch its 2016-2017 Workshop Series. Magical objects are a type of object that are thought to have either intrinsic supernatural powers or the ability to help connect people with a supernatural world in some way. As objects, they can act as potent signifiers, communicating a range of … Continue reading
Workshop: The Afterlife of Fieldnotes
Thursday, October 27th, 5-6:30pm The Ethnography Lab is pleased to launch its 2016-2017 Workshop Series. We (Josephine Smart and Alan Smart) will focus on the afterlife of fieldnotes and their intersections with confidential Hong Kong government documents, rather than their use in the original project for which they were collected. In particular, we will address their current … Continue reading
Ethnography Lab Workshop Series 2016-2017
Ethnographic Objects: Materialities and Meanings The Ethnography Lab is excited to launch its 2016-2017 Workshop Series. This year, the series will focus on experimenting with different techniques for interpreting ethnographic data. Once primary data has been gathered in the field, every ethnographer must grapple with deciding which techniques are best suited to analyzing it before … Continue reading
Visual Ethnography Event Schedule (Fall 2016)
The Ethnography Lab’s visual ethnography group aims to offer hands-on experience in visual research documentation and to promote a thorough understanding of the conceptual, ethical, and stylistic issues involved in this continually evolving methodology. We focus primarily on audio-visual methods, but photography, new media, and other visual input is welcomed. This fall (2016) we will … Continue reading
The Visual Ethnography Group is having its first meeting
The Visual Ethnography Group, coordinated by Bronwyn Frey, a graduate student in Anthropology at the University of Toronto, will be having its first meeting on Friday, September 9th, 2016 from 2-4pm. Come join us in Room AP330 in the anthropology building at 19 Russell Street, Toronto. We will be introducing ourselves and brainstorming activities and … Continue reading
Ethnography in Canada – Conference Program
The program and speaker lineup for the Ethnography in Canada 2016 conference have now been finalized. Please CLICK HERE to download the complete program booklet, including speaker bios and abstract, as a PDF. As a reminder, the conference location is: Centre for Social Innovation (CSI) – Annex 720 Bathurst St, Toronto, ON M5S 2R4 On Bathurst, a … Continue reading
It’s Not a “Copt-Out”: Anthropology, Positionality, and Ethnography among Coptic Christians in Egypt and the United States
From its beginning, socio-cultural anthropology was founded on ethnographic fieldwork. Often described as “going native,” anthropologists are expected to immerse themselves in the society they are investigating, by embracing the cultures, rituals, and traditions of their interlocutors, and living among them. A question that has emerged within anthropology over the last twenty-years or so, has … Continue reading
Ethnography Lab 