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Finding a Fieldsite, Finding a Question (Ethnography of the University 2019: Focus on Time)
Ethnography of the University / Ethnography of the University: Focus on Time 2019 / Undergraduate Ethnography

Finding a Fieldsite, Finding a Question (Ethnography of the University 2019: Focus on Time)

This blog post was part of a series of student posts written during coursework for the Ethnographic Practicum courses ANT473 and ANT6200, “Ethnography of the University 2019: Focus on Time” My “Field”, By Hayley Lessard Throughout my research, I struggled to find a physically set field site where I could see students control their time, … Continue reading →

Fieldwork, Positionality, Auto-ethnography (Ethnography of the University 2019: Focus on Time)
Ethnography of the University / Ethnography of the University: Focus on Time 2019 / Undergraduate Ethnography

Fieldwork, Positionality, Auto-ethnography (Ethnography of the University 2019: Focus on Time)

This blog post was part of a series of student posts written during coursework for the Ethnographic Practicum courses ANT473 and ANT6200, “Ethnography of the University 2019: Focus on Time” Studying Up: Navigating the complexity of conducting research with “the powerful”  By Miya Draga & Morgan O’Brien When we imagine conducting research under ideal circumstances, … Continue reading →

Theory and Time (Ethnography of the University 2019: Focus on Time)
Ethnography of the University / Ethnography of the University: Focus on Time 2019 / Undergraduate Ethnography

Theory and Time (Ethnography of the University 2019: Focus on Time)

This blog post was part of a series of student posts written during coursework for the Ethnographic Practicum courses ANT473 and ANT6200, “Ethnography of the University 2019: Focus on Time” Hartmut Rosa’s Temporalities, By Agha Saadaf, Wesley O’Hearn, Kristen Bass, Alon Hirchberg The university of Toronto is a space where the discourses and the embodiment … Continue reading →

What is the University? (Ethnography of the University 2019: Focus on Time)
Ethnography of the University / Ethnography of the University: Focus on Time 2019 / Undergraduate Ethnography

What is the University? (Ethnography of the University 2019: Focus on Time)

This blog post was part of a series of student posts written during coursework for the Ethnographic Practicum courses ANT473 and ANT6200, “Ethnography of the University 2019: Focus on Time” What is the University? By Ali Azhar, Damien Boltauzer, Sarah Chocano Barboza, and Charlotte Stewart As students, each of us is positioned within a nexus … Continue reading →

Modern Times, 1936 and the Angel of Progress (Ethnography of the University 2019: Focus on Time)
Ethnography of the University / Ethnography of the University: Focus on Time 2019 / Undergraduate Ethnography

Modern Times, 1936 and the Angel of Progress (Ethnography of the University 2019: Focus on Time)

This blog post was part of a series of student posts written during coursework for the Ethnographic Practicum courses ANT473 and ANT6200, “Ethnography of the University 2019: Focus on Time” The Progress Narrative, By Morgan O’Brien and Leslie Saunders “A Klee painting named Angelus Novus shows an angel looking as though he is about to … Continue reading →

Performance Ethnography Working Group – Friday 2-5pm @ YorkU – please RSVP
Performance Ethnography / Updates

Performance Ethnography Working Group – Friday 2-5pm @ YorkU – please RSVP

Please join us for the first workshop of the Performance Ethnography Working Group, a joint initiative of the Centre for Imaginative Ethnography at York University and the Ethnography Lab at the University of Toronto. The workshop will take place this Friday, February 7th from 2-5pm. Please RSVP for the workshop here, so that we can anticipate … Continue reading →

Workshop Series: Putting the Graphic in the Ethnographic: Experimenting with Collage
Digital Ethnography / Events / Visual Ethnography

Workshop Series: Putting the Graphic in the Ethnographic: Experimenting with Collage

Friday, February 7,  2020 | 1:00 PM 3:00 PMSpeaker: Maya El Helou, PhD Student, Department of Anthropology, The University of Toronto This workshop proposes experimenting with collage as a medium of making sense out of the mess of social theory.  It continues an initiative begun last year of informal workshops designed to encourage ethnographers to experiment with different mediums to enhance their engagement—visually … Continue reading →

Visual Ethnography 2020 Meeting Schedule
Updates / Visual Ethnography

Visual Ethnography 2020 Meeting Schedule

February 13, 5-7 PM: This meeting will be a discussion of the affordances of sequential art for ethnography.  We will develop an analytic language through a reading of selections from Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud and Unflattening by Nick Sousanis.  For more information, including about how to get copies of the readings, contact the group conveners: Maya El Helou at maya.elhelou@mail.utoronto.ca or Andrew Gilbert … Continue reading →