UofT News has written an article about the Ethnography Lab’s Kensington Market Research project. Click below to read the full article! https://www.utoronto.ca/news/change-and-resistance-kensington-market-u-t-lab-tells-community-s-story Featured image by Romi Levine Continue reading
Category Archives: Updates
Video: Ethnography Lab Summer High School Program 2016
This video introduces the 2016 Ethnography Lab Summer High School Program. The founder and director of the program, Prof. Joshua Barker from the Department of Anthropology at the University of Toronto, is featured welcoming 13 high school students from the GTA to the program. The ELSHSP, which aims to introduce high school students from grades 10-12 to … Continue reading
Visual Ethnography: Exploring Kensington Market (Video Update #3)
As part of a larger ongoing research project about Toronto’s Kensington Market, a group of students and film-makers are working together to produce an ethnographic film about this dynamic neighbourhood. Bronwyn Frey, a Master’s student at the University of Toronto, has chosen to share her video updates about the process of creating this film. Following … Continue reading
The Visual Ethnography Group is having its first meeting
The Visual Ethnography Group, coordinated by Bronwyn Frey, a graduate student in Anthropology at the University of Toronto, will be having its first meeting on Friday, September 9th, 2016 from 2-4pm. Come join us in Room AP330 in the anthropology building at 19 Russell Street, Toronto. We will be introducing ourselves and brainstorming activities and … Continue reading
Visual Ethnography: Exploring Kensington Market (Video Update #2)
As part of a larger ongoing research project about Toronto’s Kensington Market, a group of students and film-makers are working together to produce an ethnographic film about this dynamic neighbourhood. Bronwyn Frey, a Master’s student at the University of Toronto, has chosen to share her video updates about the process of creating this film. Click … Continue reading
Visual Ethnography: Exploring Kensington Market (Video Update #1)
As part of a larger ongoing research project about Toronto’s Kensington Market, a group of students and film-makers are working together to produce an ethnographic film about this dynamic neighbourhood. Bronwyn Frey, a Master’s student at the University of Toronto, has chosen to share her video updates about the process of creating this film. Click below … Continue reading
The Summer High School Program (2016) is Under Way!
The 2016 Ethnography Lab Summer High School Program is officially under way! The program, which aims to introduce high school students from grades 10-12 to the practice of ethnography, kicked off on Monday, July 4th and will run until Friday July 8th. During the course of the program, the students will be exposed to lectures, … Continue reading
CREST News Bulletin (January – April 2016)
Click on the link below to read the most recent CREST News Bulletin, which features the latest news from the Centre for Research and Education for Social Transformation located in Kerala, India. This year, four undergraduate students from the University of Toronto will be undertaking 2 month internships with CREST. Stay tuned for more updates … Continue reading
It’s Not a “Copt-Out”: Anthropology, Positionality, and Ethnography among Coptic Christians in Egypt and the United States
From its beginning, socio-cultural anthropology was founded on ethnographic fieldwork. Often described as “going native,” anthropologists are expected to immerse themselves in the society they are investigating, by embracing the cultures, rituals, and traditions of their interlocutors, and living among them. A question that has emerged within anthropology over the last twenty-years or so, has … Continue reading
Jessika Tremblay Awarded Faculty of Arts and Science Germany/Europe Fund Award for Ethnography Lab Project
The Ethnography Lab is pleased to announce that Jessika Tremblay, PhD Candidate in the University of Toronto Department of Anthropology, has been awarded a Faculty of Arts and Science Germany/Europe Fund award to lead a partnership building project with the Georg-Simmel-Centre for Metropolitan Studies in the summer of 2016. Jessika will be traveling to Germany with … Continue reading