Category Archives: Events
The Ethnography Lab hosts a regular speaker series, workshop series, and methods café during the academic year (September-April). These events take place in the University of Toronto anthropology building, room AP330 at 19 Ursula Franklin Street, Toronto.
In addition, our various interest groups (see the “Groups” drop-down menu in the main menu) frequently plan and organize a variety of events, workshops, and talks about the many facets of ethnographic research and engagement. Please contact the group’s convener or the Ethnography Lab coordinator if you would like more information about an event.
All are welcome, and we hope to see you there!
Highlanders’ Land Ownership: From Archives to Fieldwork
by Dang Anh-Minh Nguyen Join us Friday, Sept 26th, 2025, 5:00 – 6:00pm in the Ethnography Lab Boardroom Land ownership remains a significant lacuna in the historical scholarship on ethnic minorities in Vietnam. As a historian, I began investigating this subject through archival research; however, the available records were primarily produced by French administrators, explorers, … Continue reading
The Ethnography Lab is excited to announce the upcoming Student Research Showcase
Ethnographic Practicum Student Research Showcase: DIVERSIFYING MUSEUM STORIES: VISITOR EXPERIENCES Friday, September 5, 2025, 1-3PM, Room 301 Experiential Learning Commons, (255 Beverley St). Light Refreshments will be served. The City of Toronto History Museums have implemented a new strategic plan to diversify the stories they present beyond conventional mainstream narratives. How do visitors experience the … Continue reading
Join us on Thursday, Sept. 18th, 5:00-6:30 for UNHOLY MUSS: An Autoethnographic Performance Lecture of Unfaithing
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Writing Fieldnotes: Essential Skills Workshop Friday, June 20th 10-12
Calling all graduate students . . . Join us . . . .
Upcoming Event May 7: On Friendship
The Beautiful friend shows up unexpectedly and a worlding can begin. In this talk, we move from making friends on a quiet street in Denmark to friendships in Jordan and finally to friendship and the possibility of transformative solidarity in the research process. When invisible, affective gestures are captured ethnographically in all their singularity, can … Continue reading
The Ethnography Lab is proud to partner with Toronto Queer Film Fest to present Terrace of the Sea
Saturday, March 29, 2025, 2:30–3:30pm at the Tranzac Club Terrace of the SeaDiana Allan • 52 min • USA/Palestine/Lebanon • 2009 In Terrace of the Sea, anthropologist, author, and filmmaker Diana Allan offers a sensorial glimpse into the lives of the Ibrahim family, a displaced family who have been making a living as fishermen for … Continue reading
Beautiful Mystery: Ethnography, Experience, and Writing in a Different Key
by Danilyn Rutherford February 25th, 5:00pm – 6:00pm, Ethnography Lab, room 330 Danilyn Rutherford is the president of the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research. Earlier in her career, she was associate professor of anthropology at the University of Chicago and professor and chair of anthropology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is the author of Raiding … Continue reading
Upcoming Book Talk: “State of Fear: Policing a Postcolonial City” by Professor Joshua Barker, Director of the Ethnography Lab.
Please join us for an important, lively, timely discussion of Joshua Barker’s new book. February 24th, 4-6 pm. The Boardroom, 315 Bloor Street West, Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy. Register here. About the Book: In State of Fear: Policing A Postcolonial City, Joshua Barker reckons with how fear and violence are produced and … Continue reading
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