Ethnographic Potential and Practice: A Conversation (lunch provided!) Date: Oct. 7, 2022 Time: 12-1:30 pm Location: AP246 Please join the Ethnography Lab as we kick off a new year of programming and activities. This year marks the first time since the pandemic began that the Lab will host meetings in person. We’re excited and a …
The University of Toronto Ethnography Lab is extremely pleased to announce a singular opportunity for graduate students to participate in an innovative research initiative together with ethnography labs in Montreal (Concordia U.), Los Angeles (USC), Philadelphia (UPenn), and Kelowna in BC (UBC). Funded by a SSHRC Partnership Development Grant, the initiative seeks to explore the …
We’ve uploaded our event recordings for the 2021-2022 academic year. Check out the videos below or head over to our YouTube page and subscribe! Meet the Labs: Speculative and Collaborative Ethnographic Practice from Vancouver to Los Angeles (November 26, 2021) The Ethnography Lab at the University of Toronto facilitates an encounter between Kate Hennessy of …
The University of Toronto Ethnography Lab is looking to hire a part-time casual co-coordinator to manage communications and administrative affairs starting September 1, 2022. The call is open to ethnographers across all three UofT campuses, with preference given to Anthropology graduate students. The position requires your presence at the Lab on campus, as far as …
This is the first post of a series on ethnographic teaching materials for undergraduate students both within and beyond anthropology. The resources shared in this series are the culmination of the efforts of faculty members and teaching assistants at the University of Toronto. We have tried, tested, and developed everything posted in this series over the course of months (if not years in some cases). By sharing these resources, we invite professors, teaching assistants, and students to engage with ethnography in their different class settings.
The Faculty of Music and the University of Toronto Ethnography Lab seeks one or two graduate student research assistants to support a joint research project “Keeping Kensington “Kensington”: Value and Affordability in Toronto’s Kensington Market.”
The workshop, Faith in Immunity: Religion, Covid-19 Vaccines and Structures of Trust is a workshop about Covid vaccines, ritual communities and how cosmologies and narratives beyond biomedicine shape human ideas on protection, prevention, and trust. This workshop interrogates notions of immunity, focusing on the ways in which it is also culturally constructed and socially shaped through processes and … Continue reading
Please join Professor Shiho Satsuka and the students of ANT6032: More-than-Human-Ethnography for a graduate student workshop on March 29 and April 5th from 12 – 2 pm in AP246. Continue reading
Please join the Lab’s Multispecies Ethnography Working Group for a conversation with Professor Anand Vivek Taneja. Title: Jinns and Species: A Conversation on Saintly Beings, Religion, and Multispecies Ethnography Date/Time: Tuesday, March 29th, 2022, 3-4:30 EST To register or for more information, please email Noha Fikry at n.fikry@mail.utoronto.ca Abstract: In this conversation, Anand Taneja will … Continue reading
The Entertaining the Graphic in the Ethnographic Working Group is hosting an introduction to Photoshop skills workshop series in two parts. Week 1: Fundamentals of Layering & Week 2: Basic Photoshop skills Dates: Week 1: Tuesday 29th of March, 2022 Week 2: Tuesday 26th of April, 2022 Week 1 & 2 are a continuum; … Continue reading
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Ethnography Lab presents Between Parasitism and Mutuality: Multispecies Ethnography in Plantation Ecologies Featuring: Professor Sophie Chao Wednesday, March 9th, 2022, 4-5:30 PM EST Please email Noha at n.fikry@mail.utoronto.ca for zoom info! About this Event:In this discussion, we think about the possibilities and limitations of multispecies ethnography on plantations. In particular, we focus on 2 articles that Sophie … Continue reading
This session will consider what ethnography can bring to the study of archives, and what archives can bring to ethnographic study. About this event Please join the Ethnography Lab for our upcoming Methods Café, “Ethnography In and Of the Archive,” featuring Professor Natalie Rothman. Date/Time: March 8, 2022, 12 -1 pm ET Location: Zoom This … Continue reading
Please join Ethnographic Variations for a discussion about ethnographic practices and methodological possibilities, featuring Dr. Stephanie Springgay. Date/Time: February 28, 2-3pm EST Location: Zoom About this event The Ethnographic Variations group at Anthropology’s Ethnography Lab invites you to join us on February 28 when we will be joined by a very special guest Dr. Stephanie … Continue reading
Featuring: * Biao Xiang, The Mobility, Technology, and Well-Being Lab (MOLAB), Anthropology of Economic Experimentation, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
* Tarini Bedi, Mobilities and Methods Lab, University of Illinois-Chicago, Department of Anthropology
* Melisa Cefkin, Waymo
Moderated by: William F. Stafford, JR., University of Toronto Mississauga
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The word “diversity” is everywhere in universities these days, but what does diversity mean, and what does it do? How does “diversity” shape the life of the university? Is diversity something you embody, or something you do? How exactly do faculty, staff and students “do” diversity and what becomes of their efforts? Continue reading
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