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Winter 2020 Events
Virtual Speaker Series 2020/2021
Pandemic Dreams – Notes From an Online Research Project in the Summer of COVID-19
Do You Queer What I Queer?: Recording, Telling, and Archiving an Ethnographic Podcast
Hacking the Postcard
“Meet the Labs”: Explorations in Ethnographic Practice from Berlin and Quito
“Doing Ethnography Now” at AAA Raising our Voices 2020
“Knowledge in Question” Virtual Event
“Virtually There” Works-in-Progress and Works Delayed Student Conference
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Entertaining the Graphic in the Ethnographic
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Ethnographic Variations Group
Ethnographic Variations Winter 2022 Schedule
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Ethnographic Writing Workshop
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Ethnographies from the Global South
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Ethnography of the University
What is the University?
Focus on Diversity 2021
Focus on Diversity 2021
Student Blog Posts
Doing Diversity Work
Do They See Us? Librarians, Students, and Diversity Work, By Fatemeh Khavaninzadeh
Do You See Yourself? Librarians as Research Guides, By Fatemeh Khavaninzadeh
Who Pays Attention to Diversity? Sub/conscious Perspectives, By Eric de Souza
Anti-Racism Workshops and Family Conversations, By Erica de Souza
Diversity Work and the Emotional “Wall”, By Erica de Souza
Diversity Work: Student-Led Student Groups Vs Administrator-led Student Groups, By Nana Koomson
Does Your Diversity Work Make a Difference, By Nana Koomson
The Work We Do Is Not for the University, By Nana Koomson
Confronting Walls and Normalizing Practices
Academic Trash: Utility Versus Meaning in Writing Assignments, By Yuyang Yuan
When Efforts Do Not Bring Rewards, Other Possibilities Open Up, By Yuyang Yuan
Keep Calm and Speak English, By Yuyang Yuan
“The Gym Is a Micro-Society”, By Lidiia Tulenkova
Women-Only Hours, Forgotten Genders and Toxic Femininity, By Lidiia Tulenkova
Embracing Diversity or Creating Normalized Students? By Maya Banejee and Aashna Shah
Diversity in the University: An Impossible Ideal, By Aashna Shah and Nana Koomson
What Is Diversity? By Aashna Shah
The Promise of Diversity, By Aashna Shan
“Toxic Culture” and the “Try Hard”, By Maya Banerjee
The Modular U of T Student and the “Others”, By Katerina Richard
On Being Included
The Consequences of Not Belonging, By Mason Lorch
The Cruel Optimism of Inclusion at the University, By Mason Lorch and Katerina Richard
Indigenous Land Acknowledgments: Effective or Performative? By Katerina Richard
Indigenous Spaces on Campus: A Right, Not a Privilege, By Katerina Richard
Diverse Spaces on Campus, By Erica de Souza and Charlotte Millar
Do You See Them? Observations in the Library at 9 pm, By Fatemeh Khavaninzadeh
Seeking Diverse Food Beyond the Dining Hall: Take-Out & Food-Trucks, By Isabella Gillard
Questioning Complacency: Why do Students Accept poor food choices on Campus? By Isabella Gillard
Digestible Diversity, By Isabella Gillard
Concepts and Methods
The Wall of Rejections: Experiences of Failing to Choose/Get into a Field, By Yuyang Yuan, Fatemeh Khavaninzadeh and Isabella Gillard
What the Survey Misses: the Value of Face-to-Face Interview, By Maya Banerjee
Students Studying Students: When Do Interviews Become Too Formal? By Isabella Gillard and Yuyang Yuan
The Challenge of “Critical” Ethnography, By Fatemeh Khavaninzadeh, with Input from Katerina Richard and Oliver Cusimano
Morally Grounded Ethnographies that Impart Change, By Nana Koomson and Mason Lorch
Observing Closely: Phantom Dialogues in Discussions of Diversity Initiatives, By Mason Lorch
Affects in Anthropology, By Mason Lorch
Encountering Walls, and Finding Something Unexpected, By Charlotte Millar
Taking Photos as an Ethnographer, By Charlotte Millar
Ethnography during a Global Pandemic, By Charlotte Millar
Challenges of a Student Ethnographer, By Charlotte Millar and Erica de Souza
The Arts of Noticing, By Ashna Shah
“Into the Field!” Or My Experience of Collecting First Ethnographic Data, By Lidiia Tulenkova
A Surprisingly Successful Survey and a New Question, By Lidiia Tulenkova
Final Student Papers
Inside the Library: Invisible, Silent, Fixated, By Fatemeh Khavaninzadeh
Good Students and Outsiders: Belonging at the University of Toronto, By Maya Banerjee
Diverse Dining: Who is Campus Food Catering For? By Isabella Gillard
Being Evaluated, By Yuyang Yuan
Gendered Spaces at the Gym: Do Open Gyms Serve As a Safe Space, and for Whom, By Lidiia Tulenkova
What Diversity Feels Like: the affective dimensions of diversity work at the university, By Mason Lorch
Students as Diversity Workers, By Nana Koomson
Focus on Knowledge 2020
Focus on Knowledge 2020
Student Blog Posts
Online Communities
Can online communities become “Knowable communities”? By, Isabella Daniele, Kaylee Tang & Tenzin Tsundue
An Exercise in Social Activism Engagement, By Kaylee Tang
“COVID is My Friend”: A Catholic Narrative on the Pandemic, By Isabella Daniele
Digital Cultural Capital Exchange and Value: Knowing What to Say and How to Say It, By Sabrina Wu, Kaylee Tang, and Tenzin Tsundue
Moving Away from Materiality: The Work of Personal Branding, By Sabrina Wu
Tailoring News to Work Hours and Leisure Time, By Sabrina Wu
When What is Right is What is Popular, By Kaylee Tang
Producing Ethnographic Knowledge
Balancing Research Hats, By Sabrina Wu
Authenticity of “Dharmic” knowledge and risks in ethnography, By Tenzin Tsundue
Trust the Process: Engaged Inquiry and True Discourses, By Tenzin Tsundue
On being a native anthropologist, By Tenzin Tsundue
Ethnography on Instagram, By Kaylee Tang
Embracing Technology: Fieldwork During COVID-19, By Isabella Daniele
Producing Ethnographic Knowledge: “Are You Sure About That?”: Trusting the Ethnographic Process, By Isabella Daniele, Tomoya Boehm & Sofia Champion
Final Student Papers
“’Professionalism’ is another workplace dinosaur”: Crafting the Authentic Persona on LinkedIn, By Sabrina Wu
“Why is no one talking about this?” Veridiction in Online Social Activism, By Kaylee Tang
Swapping Rigid Pews for Comfy Couches: Reorienting Catholic Practice during Pandemic Times, By Isabella Danielle
Focus on Time 2019
FOCUS ON TIME 2019
ANT 473HF Ethnographic Practicum Syllabus
Final Papers
A Peripat(h)etic Journey, By Ali Azhar
Imagining Family-Friendly, By Priya Saibel
Time is OSAP Money: The Restructuring of Student Temporalities as a Result of Cuts to OSAP, By Agha Saadaf
The Marginalized Majority: Time as a University of Toronto Commuter Student, Candace Baldassarre
Organizing for the End Times: Disjunctive Temporalities in the Era of the Climate Crisis, By Charlotte Stewart
Governed Autonomy: The Struggle for Control in a Time-Managed World, By Hayley Lessard
Lunchtime at the University, By Jonathan Avalos
The Ghost in the Production: Speaking of Time and Agency in an Archaeology Lab, By By Joseph Wilson
Conflicting Temporalities:The Student Parent and the Neoliberal University, By Kristen Bass
Animating Ruins: A Temporal Cleansing, By Leslie Saunders
Doing “good work”: the intersections of progress, innovation, and virtue at the University of Toronto, By Morgan O’Brien
Engineered for Stress: The U of T Engineering student, By Mélina Lévesque
The Legacy of Community: An examination of student leaders’ motivations to spend time getting involved, Sarah Chocano Barboza
The Landmark Project: Mobilizing Temporalities, By Sarah McDonald
The Promise of Education in Times of Social Acceleration and Advanced Liberalism, By Ximena C. Martínez Trabucco
STUDENT BLOG POSTS
Modern Times, 1936 and the Angel of Progress
What is the University?
Theory and Time
Fieldwork, Positionality, Auto-ethnography
Finding a Fieldsite, Finding a Question
Methods, Archives, and the Arts of Noticing
Time-Constrained Students
Self Managing, Incentivized Students
Sacred Time, Lunch Time, Time-Out
Future Promise
What to do with the Past?
Change Postponed?
Focus on Politics 2018
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Ailin (Zhi Wen) Li
Amanda Harvey-Sanchez
Annika Olsen
Nil Alt
Tarini Date
Yiran Li
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Final Papers
Focus on Work 2016
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Why Study Work?
Theoretical Perspectives
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Observations and Analysis
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Focus on Power 2015
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Introduction
Tracing Power
What did We Learn from the Small Things?
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The Class as Research Collective
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Undergraduate Ethnography Abroad
Kerala 2019
Reflections 2019
CREST Interns 2019
Kerala 2018
CREST Interns 2018
Reflections 2018
Kerala 2017
CREST Interns 2017
REFLECTIONS 2017
Kerala 2016
CREST Program 2016
CREST Interns 2016
Reflections 2016
Kerala 2015
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CREST Interns 2015
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CREST Voices
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Ethnography in/ of the Pandemic
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