U of T News has published an article titled Researchers examine how commercial change is reshaping Toronto’s Kensington Market. For the original research conducted by Dr. Farzaneh Hemmasi, Dr. Emily Hertzman visit this link at the U of T School of Cities website.
All our events are free, open to the public, and take place in the Ethnography Lab boardroom, AP 330, 19 Ursula Franklin Street, Toronto, Ontario. Light refreshments will be served. Hybrid events are announced in advance.
Please join us for a series of sustained conversations about how anthropological and ethnographic methods can be used to study artificial intelligence. All our events are free, open to the public, and take place in the Ethnography Lab boardroom, AP 330, 19 Ursula Franklin Street, Toronto, Ontario. Light refreshments will be served. Hybrid events are …
Thursday, April 4, 2019 | 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM AP330, Anthropology Building 19 Russell St. _ Speaker: Seung Cheol LEE, University of Mississippi Chair: Jesook Song, Department of Anthropology, U of T “First, it was just tech people. Now, literally everyone is interested in Bitcoin,” said New York Times while reporting on the Bitcoin … Continue reading
Wednesday, April 3, 2019 | 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM AP330, Anthropology Building 19 Russell St. _ Speaker: EuyRyung Jun, Chonbuk National University Chair: Jesook Song, Department of Anthropology, U of T This talk discusses the rapid emergence of ban damunhwa (“anti-multiculture”) or the sentiment of anti-immigration in South Korea. Ban damunhwa discourse centers on … Continue reading
The Connaught Global Challenge Initiative, Entangled Worlds: Sovereignty, Sanctities and Soils, in collaboration with Visual Ethnography Group of the Ethnography Lab will be hosting a practical workshop on visual ethnography with Dr. Roger Canals Vilageliu, University of Barcelona. Dr. Canals Vilageliu is a visual anthropologist who has done ethnographic film and photography projects on the religious cult … Continue reading
The Kensington Market Research Project (KMRP) aims to produce rich and detailed knowledge about Toronto’s most celebrated multicultural heritage district. In this event, we will showcase its latest productions: ethnographic podcasts made by undergraduate ethnographers. As downtown Toronto faces the encroachment of big corporate retailers, the impending conversion of public housing into private condominiums, and the … Continue reading
How do anthropologists write in different registers, through policy documents, activist texts,or art? What happens to anthropological knowledge when we do? And how and where does our knowledge travel and translate? Come join us for a discussion at the Ethnography Lab. Thursday, March 21st 4:30-6:30 PM (the time on the poster is a typo) 19 … Continue reading
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
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
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
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
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
