By Johana Pokorney Thursday, January 29th, 2026, 5:00 – 6:00pm Room 330 – Ethnography Lab Boardroom 19 Ursula Franklin Street This session examines how skills and sensibilities honed through ethnographic research can be translated into qualitative research consulting projects and settings–and sometimes where they fail. Given that today many other professionals draw on similar methods, …
Please join us at the Ethnography Lab on Friday, December 5th, 5-6 pm, for a presentation of a work in progress by Eugene Slonimerov. 19 Ursula Franklin Street, Toronto, Ontario. Room 330 or online. The ongoing research project takes the site of the former Russian military installation in Tbilisi, Georgia as a non-human subject, a …
The 2016 Ethnography Lab Summer High School Program is officially under way! The program, which aims to introduce high school students from grades 10-12 to the practice of ethnography, kicked off on Monday, July 4th and will run until Friday July 8th. During the course of the program, the students will be exposed to lectures, … Continue reading
Click on the link below to read the most recent CREST News Bulletin, which features the latest news from the Centre for Research and Education for Social Transformation located in Kerala, India. This year, four undergraduate students from the University of Toronto will be undertaking 2 month internships with CREST. Stay tuned for more updates … Continue reading
The program and speaker lineup for the Ethnography in Canada 2016 conference have now been finalized. Please CLICK HERE to download the complete program booklet, including speaker bios and abstract, as a PDF. As a reminder, the conference location is: Centre for Social Innovation (CSI) – Annex 720 Bathurst St, Toronto, ON M5S 2R4 On Bathurst, a … Continue reading
This is a research paper by Shannon McKechnie, produced as part of the Ethnography of the University 2015: Focus on Power course. Download PDF here Abstract Increasingly, students attending post-secondary education are not pursuing higher academic knowledge. Instead, the experience of University, including gaining new friends, relationships, memories, and prospective careers has become paramount. This is … Continue reading
This is a research paper by Anna Shortly, produced as part of the Ethnography of the University 2015: Focus on Power course. Download PDF here Abstract Every year in the fall semester, the University of Toronto Students’ Union holds an Annual General Meeting where the students it represents—all undergraduate and professional faculty students across the St. … Continue reading
This is a research paper by Henry Lee Heinonen, produced as part of the Ethnography of the University 2015: Focus on Power course. Download PDF here My conscious engagement with wellness programs at the University of Toronto began in September, 2015 – in my fifth and final year as an undergraduate student, and only in order … Continue reading
This is a research paper by Alexandre Darveau-Morin, produced as part of the Ethnography of the University 2015: Focus on Power course. Download PDF here Context of the research This research was conducted through an ethnographic fieldwork seminar with Prof. Tania Li seeking to understand how power flows and influence the life of people inside … Continue reading
From its beginning, socio-cultural anthropology was founded on ethnographic fieldwork. Often described as “going native,” anthropologists are expected to immerse themselves in the society they are investigating, by embracing the cultures, rituals, and traditions of their interlocutors, and living among them. A question that has emerged within anthropology over the last twenty-years or so, has … Continue reading
The Ethnography Lab is pleased to announce that Jessika Tremblay, PhD Candidate in the University of Toronto Department of Anthropology, has been awarded a Faculty of Arts and Science Germany/Europe Fund award to lead a partnership building project with the Georg-Simmel-Centre for Metropolitan Studies in the summer of 2016. Jessika will be traveling to Germany with … Continue reading
It is extremely rare for us to encounter researchers’ corporeality in the field as directly shaping the appearance of ethnographic products. No matter how hot it was in the field, the published book would not retain a drop of the researchers’ sweat. No matter how tired the fieldworker was, we do not find misspellings (usually) … Continue reading
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