Project Feedback Session December 6th, 5-8pm Ethnography Lab Seminar Room 330 The Ethnography Lab Visual Ethnography group is inviting you to an informal project feedback session. This is an opportunity to present and discuss visual ethnography projects in any stage of completion. A range of visual media is encouraged, including photography, film and video, digital … Continue reading
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Magical Objects: A Workshop
Thursday, November 24th, 5-6:30pm The Ethnography Lab is pleased to launch its 2016-2017 Workshop Series. Magical objects are a type of object that are thought to have either intrinsic supernatural powers or the ability to help connect people with a supernatural world in some way. As objects, they can act as potent signifiers, communicating a range of … Continue reading
Workshop: The Afterlife of Fieldnotes
Thursday, October 27th, 5-6:30pm The Ethnography Lab is pleased to launch its 2016-2017 Workshop Series. We (Josephine Smart and Alan Smart) will focus on the afterlife of fieldnotes and their intersections with confidential Hong Kong government documents, rather than their use in the original project for which they were collected. In particular, we will address their current … Continue reading
Collaborative Ethnography in Kensington Market: Emily Hertzman publishes article in Anthropology News
Please click the link below to read the full article: http://www.anthropology-news.org/index.php/2016/09/28/collaborative-ethnography-in-kensington-market/ Continue reading
CREST News Bulletin: May-August 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. crest-bulletin-22-may-august-2016 Continue reading
Toronto Metro News article about the Ethnography Lab’s Kensington Market Research
Click on the link below to read a news article about the Ethnography Lab’s Kensington Market Research Project. http://www.metronews.ca/news/toronto/2016/09/23/university-of-toronto-anthropologists-study-kensington.html Continue reading
Ethnography Lab Workshop Series 2016-2017
Ethnographic Objects: Materialities and Meanings The Ethnography Lab is excited to launch its 2016-2017 Workshop Series. This year, the series will focus on experimenting with different techniques for interpreting ethnographic data. Once primary data has been gathered in the field, every ethnographer must grapple with deciding which techniques are best suited to analyzing it before … Continue reading
Visual Ethnography Event Schedule (Fall 2016)
The Ethnography Lab’s visual ethnography group aims to offer hands-on experience in visual research documentation and to promote a thorough understanding of the conceptual, ethical, and stylistic issues involved in this continually evolving methodology. We focus primarily on audio-visual methods, but photography, new media, and other visual input is welcomed. This fall (2016) we will … Continue reading
UofT News Article about Kensington Market Research Project
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
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