It was great to see so many people at our winter launch! If you missed it, please find our upcoming events here. 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?
Ethnographies of/from the Global South Presents “Rebeldes en Acción”: Crossroads of English Teaching and Violence in a Colombian Marginalized High School
Yecid Ortega, PhD Candidate, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education – OISE Thursday, January 30 from 5:00 to 6:30 PM in The Ethnography Lab, Room 330,University of Toronto, Anthropology Building 19 Russel Street Continue reading
Ethnography Beyond the Text: A Workshop on What to Know Before You Go
Please join Ethnography Lab’s Senior Researcher Dr. Andrew Gilbert on Friday, January 31, 2020. This is a workshop designed for anyone who will be conducting ethnographic research and is interested in the possibility of communicating that research in forms other than text, i.e. photo, video, graphic and sequential arts, audio, etc. The focus will be on how to prepare … Continue reading
Time at the University
How do different temporalities shape the life of the university? How do faculty, staff and students make time, spend time, and value time, past, present and future? Who tries to manage time, and why? Students in Ethnographic Practicum courses ANT473 and ANT6200 carried out research at different sites around campus to find out… Come hear … Continue reading
Conference Program for Politics and the University: An Ethnographic Inquiry
The program for the conference titled Politics and the University: An Ethnographic Inquiry is now available below. Click here for the PDF version. Continue reading
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