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Ethnography in Canada – Conference Program
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
Ethnography of the University / Ethnography of the University: Focus on Power 2015 / Undergraduate Ethnography
What’s in a Rank? Universities and Student Satisfaction: The Role of Student Services Practitioners in Creating Successful Students (Ethnography of the University 2015: Focus on Power)
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
Ethnography of the University / Ethnography of the University: Focus on Power 2015 / Undergraduate Ethnography
Board Proposals, Bingo, and a Band: Strength in Numbers at the University of Toronto Students’ Union’s Annual General Meeting (Ethnography of the University 2015: Focus on Power)
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
Ethnography of the University / Ethnography of the University: Focus on Power 2015 / Undergraduate Ethnography
Wellness Welded: The Assemblage for Health & Wellness at the University of Toronto (Ethnography of the University 2015: Focus on Power)
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
Ethnography of the University / Ethnography of the University: Focus on Power 2015 / Undergraduate Ethnography
The Amiable Face of Student Governance: A Look into Political Involvement within the University of Toronto (Ethnography of the University 2015: Focus on Power)
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
It’s Not a “Copt-Out”: Anthropology, Positionality, and Ethnography among Coptic Christians in Egypt and the United States
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
Jessika Tremblay Awarded Faculty of Arts and Science Germany/Europe Fund Award for Ethnography Lab Project
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
Shaky Footage from the Field – The Experience of Film Ethnography in a Judo Gym
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
Job Posting: Design Researcher
RL Solutions is a patient safety software company. Located in downtown Toronto, their software powers the world’s top healthcare organizations. RL Solutions is currently hiring a Design Researcher for their team. The company is interested in taking a user centered, human centered approach to research. They are interested in people who are able to take very abstract … Continue reading
Fighting for water and democracy against the neoliberal flood.
Dr. Andrea Muehlebach, Professor of Anthropology at the University of Toronto, has recently been writing and speaking publicly about the relationship between water and democracy in Italy. See her ROAR Mag article and This is Hell! interview here. Continue reading
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