We’ve uploaded our event recordings for the 2021-2022 academic year. Check out the videos below or head over to our YouTube page and subscribe! Meet the Labs: Speculative and Collaborative Ethnographic Practice from Vancouver to Los Angeles (November 26, 2021) The Ethnography Lab at the University of Toronto facilitates an encounter between Kate Hennessy of … Continue reading
Category Archives: Public
Many of our graduate students come to the department with work experience outside of academe, and some wish to pursue graduate work in order to gain the skills to continue doing so after their M.A. or Ph.D. degrees. The public anthropology collective consists of students, alumni, and affiliated anthropologists who have worked in fields that range from medical research, disaster relief, and environmental NGO work, to design firms and consultancy. The goal is to bring anthropologists from within and outside the academic world together to create a series of sustained conversations about theory, methods, and ethics. How is ethnography – in the ways it is conducted, its results communicated, and perceived – changing as it circulates across academic and non-academic terrain? What methods, forms of knowledge and insights are valued in academic / non-academic settings and how can such intersections lead to methodological innovation? How do anthropologists best convey their skill sets? And in what ways in ethnography refunctioned through collaboration?
Politics and the University: An Ethnographic Inquiry
A conference brought to you by the Ethnography Lab, practicum students (ANT473 and ANT 6200), and Prof Tania Li. The conference program is available here. Date: Thursday December 6 Time: 1:00PM-5:00PM Location: University of Toronto Anthropology Department, 19 Russell Street Toronto, Room AP 246 Is our university a hot bed of political activism, or is it … Continue reading
Fighting for water and democracy against the neoliberal flood.
Dr. Andrea Muehlebach, Professor of Anthropology at the University of Toronto, has recently been writing and speaking publicly about the relationship between water and democracy in Italy. See her ROAR Mag article and This is Hell! interview here. Continue reading
Ethnography and Market Research
On February 12th, 2016, Dr. Barbara McGrath delivered a talk entitled Ethnography and Market Research as part of the 2nd Annual Ethnography Lab Speaker Series discussing the link between ethnography and market research. She has kindly given us permission to share her talk here. Description: More than a decade ago, the ethnographic method started to … Continue reading
Imaging Kensington
Imaging Kensington is a series of informal meet-ups of members of the Ethnography Lab who explore Kensington Market in more depth through personal photography and focused discussions on multidisciplinary themes. This past month we have been using the concepts of palimpsest, facade and bricolage to seek new insights into ways that the past plays out in the present in the social, cultural and spatial … Continue reading
The Uprisings: An Interactive Documentary & Lecture with Maple Razsa and Andrej Kurnik
Susan Hyatt audio and presentation slides
Last Thursday, Dr. Susan Hyatt from Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis gave a talk entitled ‘Collaborative ethnography and community activism: Where publics and politics meet’. The presentation slides can be downloaded in MS PowerPoint format. Please note that the file is rather large as it contains embedded audio and video: Susan Hyatt – Collaborative ethnography and … Continue reading
Collaborative Ethnography and Community Activism: Where Publics and Politics Meet
Collaborative ethnography, as defined by Luke Eric Lassiter, is “a very specific kind of ethnography that builds on the cooperative relationships already present in the ethnographic research process… and endeavors to engender texts that are more readable, relevant, and applicable to local communities of ethnographic collaborators (i.e. local publics).” Over the last 10 years, collaborative … Continue reading
“This is Anthropology” – revisiting the values of social research
Anthropology is just one of many disciplines that uses ethnography – or the systematic and in-depth description of various social or cultural phenomena – to enrich our understanding of the strange and familiar goings-on around us. “This is Anthropology” is a detailed slideshow put together by the students at the University of South Florida a … Continue reading