The Socio-Technical Infrastructure of Cryptocurrency Blockchains
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Ethnography Lab: Summer Ethnographic Dissertation Writing Bursary
NEW OPPORTUNITY Ethnography Lab: Summer Ethnographic Dissertation Writing Bursary (***for Anthropology Grad Students from UofT only***) The Ethnography Lab invites applications from post-fieldwork doctoral students for a bursary valued at $6000 to support 15 weeks of intensive ethnographic writing in the period May 1 to August 31, 2019. The bursary is intended primarily for students … Continue reading
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: Shoshana Zuboff
Please join us for a discussion of Shoshana Zuboff’s The Age of Surveillance Capitalism. Zuboff (Harvard Business School) makes a number of discussion-worthy arguments, notably that the data collection and processing regimes as pioneered by Google and Facebook generate value through “behavioural surplus,” and that this kind of surveillance is an aberration of capitalism. Drawing … Continue reading
Critical Cartographies: (Re)Imagining Socio-Spatial Relationships
The Ethnography Lab team invites you to our final speaker event of the year as part of our Ethnography Lab 2018/2019 Speaker Series: ‘Ethnographic Experiments’ “Critical Cartographies: (Re)Imagining Socio-Spatial Relationships with Jeff Hackett, Hannah Quinn and Logan QuinnDate: Wednesday, March 20, 2019 (please note the change of day)Location: The Ethnography Lab (Anthropology Building, 19 Russell St., Room … Continue reading
Disability Anthropology Reading Group Meetings March & April 2019
The Disability Anthropology Working Group would like to announce two upcoming reading group meetings to take place on March 25th and April 22nd respectively. Please take a look at the two posters below for details about each meeting. ***Please note that the April 22nd meeting has been moved to May 13th, 2-4pm in AP330.*** Continue reading
Join the Visual Ethnography Commercialized Contemporary Art Project!
The Commercialized Contemporary Public Art Scene in Toronto This winter 2019, UofT anthropology and English major Maisha Mustanzir will be hosting a collective research project and workshop series dedicated to understanding the commercialization of Toronto’s public art scene from an ethnographic perspective. The first meeting for this group will take place on Thursday, March 21st, … Continue reading
Launching the Urban Ethnography Reading Group and Speaker Series 2019
In an effort to decentralize our academic knowledge and discussion on urban spaces, the Urban Ethnography Group has launched its Urban Ethnography from the Global South reading group and speaker series, dedicated to the study and analysis of ethnographic research produced on the Global South and by academics from the Global South. The initiative has two … Continue reading
The Body Multiple: Ontology in Medical Practice | Annemarie Mol (2002)
The Body Multiple: Ontology in Medical Practice | Annemarie Mol (2002) A reading group discussion hosted by the Disability Anthropology Working Group (Flyer attached) February 25, 2 – 4 PM The Ethnography Lab, Room 330, 19 Russell St. Toronto https://ethnographylab.ca/disability-anthropology-working-group/ Each month the Disability Anthropology Working group, in collaboration with the Ethnography Lab, hosts a reading discussion of an ethnography related … Continue reading
