Ethnographic Practicum Student Research Showcase: DIVERSIFYING MUSEUM STORIES: VISITOR EXPERIENCES Friday, September 5, 2025, 1-3PM, Room 301 Experiential Learning Commons, (255 Beverley St). Light Refreshments will be served. The City of Toronto History Museums have implemented a new strategic plan to diversify the stories they present beyond conventional mainstream narratives. How do visitors experience the … Continue reading
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June 27, 2025 Hanna Belinska, Amani Hassan, Ada Inselbaggil, Ananya Rathore, Jack Simoes, Sehajleen Kaur Wander Introduction Museums as colonial institutions have increasingly become sites of critical reflection and transformation. Across North America and Europe, places which birthed museums from and for their colonial projects, these institutions are undertaking significant efforts to decolonize and diversify … Continue reading
June 27, 2025 Shan Hsieh, Rona Mohsini, Zoya Nasir, Yasmine Sleiman, Alison Wardley, Yao Xiao, Cody Yoon Introduction Our site of interest, Fort York, is a historic site that maintains the military garrison that was established by Lieutenant-Governor John Graves Simcoe in 1793, who then named it York, favouring English names to local Indigenous ones … Continue reading
June 24, 2024 Yiran Li, Yunshan Li, Georgia Hanson, Alperen Demirci, Lukey Lu The Spadina Museum is one of ten Toronto History Museums sites operated by the City of Toronto, used to be owned by the Austin Family, an affluent and influential family in Toronto during late 19th Century and early 20th Century. The museum … Continue reading
The Beautiful friend shows up unexpectedly and a worlding can begin. In this talk, we move from making friends on a quiet street in Denmark to friendships in Jordan and finally to friendship and the possibility of transformative solidarity in the research process. When invisible, affective gestures are captured ethnographically in all their singularity, can … Continue reading
By Yunshan Li As one division in Student Life, a main challenge that Student Engagement (responsible for clubs and leadership development relevant matters) meets is they find it difficult to let students know what is happening. One main reason is they do not have their own social media accounts. If they want to announce something, such … Continue reading
By Yunshan Li As a department in a higher education institution, Student Life’s working habit is quite different from that of academia. According to our professor, there is no clear hierarchy of faculty in academia. Of course, some professors are more reputational, but there is no such concept as superior and subordinate. Furthermore, the work handover of faculty is mostly … Continue reading
By Yunshan Li Our group was assigned to study the organization and function of Student Engagement which is responsible for the support of clubs and leadership development. During our fieldwork, we planned to conduct participant observation on Student Engagement workshops. The staff in Student Engagement welcomed us at the beginning and seemed enthusiastic to help … Continue reading
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