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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
  • Groups
    • Multispecies Ethnography Group
      • Multispecies Ethnography Group People
      • Multispecies Ethnography Schedule
    • Entertaining the Graphic in the Ethnographic
      • Entertaining the Graphic in the Ethnographic People
    • Ethnographic Variations Group
      • Ethnographic Variations Winter 2022 Schedule
      • Ethnographic Variations People
    • Linguistic Anthropology Reading Group
    • Ethnographic Writing Workshop
      • Ethnographic Writing Workshop People
    • Past Groups
      • Ethnographies from the Global South
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        • Events & Meetings
      • Disability Anthropology Working Group
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        • Events & Meetings
      • Performance Ethnography
      • Infrastructures
        • Infrastructures Research Group
        • Infrastructures Photos
      • Speculative Anthropology Reading Group
        • Meetings and Reading List
      • Visual Ethnography
        • Meeting Schedule
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        • Events & Meetings
  • Kensington Market
    • Kensington Market Research Team
    • Graduate Student Job Opportunity!
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    • Kensington Market DRUM
    • Summer High-School Program
      • ELSHSP 2016
        • Final Projects
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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
      • Syllabus
      • Student Bios and Blog Posts
        • Ailin (Zhi Wen) Li
        • Amanda Harvey-Sanchez
        • Annika Olsen
        • Nil Alt
        • Tarini Date
        • Yiran Li
      • Group Blog Posts
      • Final Papers
    • Focus on Work 2016
      • Student Bios
      • Why Study Work?
      • Theoretical Perspectives
      • Sites of Investigation
      • Observations and Analysis
      • Synthesis
    • Focus on Power 2015
      • Student Bios
      • Introduction
      • Tracing Power
      • What did We Learn from the Small Things?
      • Fieldwork
      • Documents
      • Research Journeys
      • The Class as Research Collective
      • Research Papers
      • Useful Resources
      • Fieldsite Maps
  • 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
      • Program Description
      • Introduction
      • CREST Interns 2015
      • Academic Papers
      • CREST Voices
      • Reflections
      • Theatre Workshop
      • Resources
  • Ethnography in/ of the Pandemic

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The Ethnography Lab promotes ethnographic research methods and practice in the university and outside academia. Arranged in interest groups, the Lab explores the craft and impact of ethnography in the contemporary world.

The Lab offers a regular speaker series, acts as a resource centre to the university community, and as a link to the outside world via consulting, community activism, and so on. It also has a strong focus on teaching the practical aspects of ethnographic fieldwork at the undergraduate level.

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