When: Friday, February 14th, 2:30PM Where: Ethnography Lab Boardroom The AGSU and Ethnography Lab will be hosting a film screening of the short documentary Invasion, followed by a discussion about the work of Wet’suwet’en land and water protectors and ways that anthropologists living and working on Indigenous lands can act in solidarity with the Wet’suwet’en … Continue reading
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Speculative Anthropology Reading Group announcement
Please join us for Scent City: Urban Olfactory Activism by Jim Drobnick (OCAD)
Date: Thursday February 27, 2020Time: 4:00-5:30PMLocation: Room 330, Anthropology Bldg, 19 Russell Street, Toronto Abstract: The city constitutes a prime battleground for olfactory politics. The large population, the competing interests, the variety of stakeholders, and the dynamic pace of redevelopment all contribute to contestations about the best use of the public commons that is the atmosphere. … Continue reading
Performance Ethnography Working Group – Friday 2-5pm @ YorkU – please RSVP
Please join us for the first workshop of the Performance Ethnography Working Group, a joint initiative of the Centre for Imaginative Ethnography at York University and the Ethnography Lab at the University of Toronto. The workshop will take place this Friday, February 7th from 2-5pm. Please RSVP for the workshop here, so that we can anticipate … Continue reading
Visual Ethnography 2020 Meeting Schedule
February 13, 5-7 PM: This meeting will be a discussion of the affordances of sequential art for ethnography. We will develop an analytic language through a reading of selections from Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud and Unflattening by Nick Sousanis. For more information, including about how to get copies of the readings, contact the group conveners: Maya El Helou at maya.elhelou@mail.utoronto.ca or Andrew Gilbert … Continue reading
Upcoming Events!
It was great to see so many people at our winter launch! If you missed it, please find our upcoming events here. Continue reading
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
We hope to see you at the Ethnography Lab Winter Launch!
Friday, January 31, 2020 | Workshop 1:00-3:00PM, AP330, Launch 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM AP246, Anthropology Building 19 Russell St. Please join the Ethnography Lab’s Senior Researcher Dr. Andrew Gilbert, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, U of T, for a workshop on the possibility of communicating ethnographic research in forms other than text, i.e. photo, video, … 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
An Elephant in the Room: Tracking an Awkward Anthropology
Due to the elevator being out of service, this event has moved to room AP130, Anthropology Building 19 Russell St. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused. Friday, January 17, 2020 | 4:30 PM 6:00 PM Speaker: Dr. Magdalena Kazubowski-Houston, Associate Professor Department of Theatre, York University Drawing on trail anthropology and the notion of the … Continue reading