Check out our Zoom recordings for the 2021-22 academic year!
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Check out our Zoom recordings for the 2021-22 academic year!

We’ve uploaded our event recordings for the 2021-2022 academic year. Check out the videos below or head over to our YouTube page and subscribe! Meet the Labs: Speculative and Collaborative Ethnographic Practice from Vancouver to Los Angeles (November 26, 2021) The Ethnography Lab at the University of Toronto facilitates an encounter between Kate Hennessy of … Continue reading

RESCHEDULED: Ethnographic Variations Speaker Series: Mitchell Akiyama
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RESCHEDULED: Ethnographic Variations Speaker Series: Mitchell Akiyama

Mitchell Akiyama’s discussion with the Ethnographic Variations Working Group has been rescheduled for April 11th at 11:30 am ET. Special Guest: Mitchell Akiyama Date/Time: April 11, 11:30 am ET About: Mitchell Akiyama is a Toronto-based scholar, composer, and artist. His eclectic body of work includes writings about sound, metaphors, animals, and media technologies; scores for film and … Continue reading

CFP Faith in Immunity – Asia Research Institute at the National University of Singapore
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CFP Faith in Immunity – Asia Research Institute at the National University of Singapore

The workshop, Faith in Immunity: Religion, Covid-19 Vaccines and Structures of Trust is a workshop about Covid vaccines, ritual communities and how cosmologies and narratives beyond biomedicine shape human ideas on protection, prevention, and trust. This workshop interrogates notions of immunity, focusing on the ways in which it is also culturally constructed and socially shaped through processes and … Continue reading

Between Parasitism and Mutuality: Multispecies Ethnography in Plantation Ecologies, featuring Professor Sophie Chao
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Between Parasitism and Mutuality: Multispecies Ethnography in Plantation Ecologies, featuring Professor Sophie Chao

Ethnography Lab presents Between Parasitism and Mutuality: Multispecies Ethnography in Plantation Ecologies Featuring: Professor Sophie Chao Wednesday, March 9th, 2022, 4-5:30 PM EST Please email Noha at n.fikry@mail.utoronto.ca for zoom info! About this Event:In this discussion, we think about the possibilities and limitations of multispecies ethnography on plantations. In particular, we focus on 2 articles that Sophie … Continue reading

Final Presentations: Ethnography of the University 2021: Focus on Diversity
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Final Presentations: Ethnography of the University 2021: Focus on Diversity

 The word “diversity” is everywhere in universities these days, but what does diversity mean, and what does it do? How does “diversity” shape the life of the university? Is diversity something you embody, or something you do? How exactly do faculty, staff and students “do” diversity and what becomes of their efforts?  Continue reading

Multispecies Ethnography Speaker Series: Indigenous Standpoints & Multispecies Ethnography, A talk by Professor Professor Kim Tallbear
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Multispecies Ethnography Speaker Series: Indigenous Standpoints & Multispecies Ethnography, A talk by Professor Professor Kim Tallbear

Ethnography Lab presents Multispecies Ethnography Speaker Series:Indigenous Standpoints & Multispecies Ethnography Speaker: Professor Professor Kim Tallbear Tuesday, February 1, 20222 – 3:30pm  Please email Noha at n.fikry@mail.utoronto.ca for zoom info! Continue reading

“The ‘How’ and ‘Why’ of ethnographic comics with Professor Sherine Hamdy
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“The ‘How’ and ‘Why’ of ethnographic comics with Professor Sherine Hamdy

Please join the Ethnography Lab’s Working Group, The graphic in the ethnographic, for a talk by Professor Sherine Hamdy. A description of the event and how to register is below. Date/Time: Tuesday, January 25, 2022, 5 pm ET Location: Zoom The idea of this entertaining the graphic into the ethnographic series is an experimental attempt … Continue reading