Saturday, March 29, 2025, 2:30–3:30pm at the Tranzac Club Terrace of the SeaDiana Allan • 52 min • USA/Palestine/Lebanon • 2009 In Terrace of the Sea, anthropologist, author, and filmmaker Diana Allan offers a sensorial glimpse into the lives of the Ibrahim family, a displaced family who have been making a living as fishermen for … Continue reading
Category Archives: Updates
Upcoming Workshop: The Queer Art of Failure to Write, March 29th and 30th
With Maya El Helou The ethnography lab is pleased to announce this upcoming workshop designed to help you gain some perspectives on how to ‘un-stuck’ yourself in your writing process. Registration is required. Please scan or contact Maya El Helou, maya.elhelou@mail.utoronto.ca. Continue reading
Beautiful Mystery: Ethnography, Experience, and Writing in a Different Key
by Danilyn Rutherford February 25th, 5:00pm – 6:00pm, Ethnography Lab, room 330 Danilyn Rutherford is the president of the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research. Earlier in her career, she was associate professor of anthropology at the University of Chicago and professor and chair of anthropology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is the author of Raiding … Continue reading
Upcoming Book Talk: “State of Fear: Policing a Postcolonial City” by Professor Joshua Barker, Director of the Ethnography Lab.
Please join us for an important, lively, timely discussion of Joshua Barker’s new book. February 24th, 4-6 pm. The Boardroom, 315 Bloor Street West, Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy. Register here. About the Book: In State of Fear: Policing A Postcolonial City, Joshua Barker reckons with how fear and violence are produced and … Continue reading
Upcoming Book Talk: “State of Fear: Policing a Postcolonial City” by Professor Joshua Barker, Director of the Ethnography Lab.
Please join us for an important, lively, timely discussion of Joshua Barker’s new book. February 24th, 4-6 pm. The Boardroom, 315 Bloor Street West, Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy. Register here. About the Book: In State of Fear: Policing A Postcolonial City, Joshua Barker reckons with how fear and violence are produced and … Continue reading
ETHNOGRAPHY OF THE UNIVERSITY: FOCUS ON STUDENT LIFE 2024
Over the past two decades, Student Life has emerged at the University of Toronto and elsewhere as a domain where various aspects of student life become subject to expert management with the aim of facilitating learning, enhancing well-being, minimizing stress, and promoting a healthy and productive university experience. Yet for most students at U of … Continue reading
Join us next Friday for our 10-year anniversary.
Upcoming Affect Theatre Workshop
The Affect Theatre workshop, hosted by Cristiana Giordano and Greg Pierotti at the University of Toronto, will focus on a unique theatrical technique that utilizes non-theatrical source materials. Spanning two days, participants will learn and apply these methods to their own research, fostering collaboration and engagement. Registration is limited to 25 attendees. Continue reading
Upcoming Affect Theatre Workshop
The Affect Theatre workshop, hosted by Cristiana Giordano and Greg Pierotti at the University of Toronto, will focus on a unique theatrical technique that utilizes non-theatrical source materials. Spanning two days, participants will learn and apply these methods to their own research, fostering collaboration and engagement. Registration is limited to 25 attendees. Continue reading
UPCOMING: Cookbooks and Mestizaje: Tracing Changing Ethnoracial Hierarchies through Interviews, Ethnography, and Food Recipes
Nino Bariola Gonzales Friday, Dec 13th, 2024, 5:00 – 6:00 pm, Room 330- Ethnography Lab Boardroom What stories can food recipes and cookbooks tell us about racial hierarchies and nation-building? In the last few decades, historians, anthropologists, and cultural theorists started using cookbooks to reconstruct the histories of beliefs and debates about gender roles, class … Continue reading