The University of Toronto Ethnography Lab is looking to hire a part-time casual coordinator to manage communications and administrative affairs starting September 1, 2021. The call is open to ethnographers across all three UofT campuses, with preference given to Anthropology graduate students. The position requires your presence at the Lab on campus, as far as … Continue reading
Call for Graduate Student Researchers to support joint Faculty of Music/Ethnography Lab Research Project in Kensington Market The Faculty of Music and the University of Toronto Ethnography Lab would like to hire one or two graduate student researchers to support the joint research project “Keeping Kensington “Kensington”: Value and Affordability in Toronto’s Kensington Market,” supported … Continue reading
“Doing Ethnography Now”A virtual Roundtable at the American Anthropology Association virtual meetings Raising Our Voices 2020 Saturday, November 14th from 5:00 – 6:00 PM EST Join our live-streamed roundtable event, hosted by Andrew Gilbert and Hannah Quinn with Alissa Jordan, George Marcus, Mike Fortun, Kregg Hetherington, Cassandra Hartblay, and Farzaneh Hemmasi This roundtable brings together members of … Continue reading
Join Elliott Tilleczek (PhD Student, Anthropology) and Thomas Stoneman (Youth Educator) on Wednesday, November 4th as they discuss the various methods and types of work that go into creating their podcast Do You Queer What I Queer? In addition to speaking about the podcast, Elliott and Thom will host a workshop and show in real-time what is … Continue reading
Welcome to our first virtual speaker series event of the year! Join Erica Kilius (PhD Student, Anthropology), Leela McKinnon (PhD Student, Anthropology), and Noor Abbas (MSc Student, Anthropology) as they discuss their COVID-19 and Sleep study conducted this summer, funded through the University of Toronto Student Engagement Awards. While their lab typically explores sleep through … Continue reading
The theme for the 2020/2021 *virtual* speaker series is “Telling Ethnographic Stories.” Through this speaker series we will hear from our colleagues about the ways that they are thinking about and working with the stories they have witnessed and collected through their research. How do we as ethnographers engage in storytelling? How do we build … Continue reading
On August 5th and 6th 2020, graduate students from the department of anthropology at the University of Toronto will be presenting research papers and works-in-progress to their peers and faculty. You are warmly invited to attend, watch the presentations, and engage with comments and questions. The event is presented by the Anthropology Graduate Student Union … Continue reading
Prepared by Hannah Quinn with Andrew Gilbert On Tuesday, May 12th the Ethnography Lab hosted the first of three sessions for our “Ethnography in/of the Pandemic” series. Session 1 focused on “ethics and engagement,” a theme that emerged from the brainstorming session on May 1st where participants noted their concerns related to pursuing or continuing … Continue reading
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The writing sessions of the Ethnography Lab have moved online. If you are interested in joining to keep your writing going and/or to fight the isolation of these strange days please email elisabetta.campagnola@mail.utoronto.ca to be added to the group where we set up the meetings. Continue reading
