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
For the second year in a row, students from the Munk One program were hosted in the ethnography lab for an ethnographic research practicum as part of our Kensington Market Research Project. You may read a short blog post about their experiences at: http://munkschool.utoronto.ca/one/student-blog/reflections-on-the-ethnography-lab/ Continue reading
