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 …
On April 26th, 2015, the students of “ANTH447H1 Ethnographic Practicum: Metropolis” course directed by Dr. Joshua Barker, Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Toronto hosted their first Scan-a-thon event. As part of a long-term research project on the cultures and people of Toronto’s Kensington Market, eleven undergraduate and 4 graduate students got together … Continue reading
Jacob Nerenberg, a PhD Candidate at the University of Toronto’s Department of Anthropology, will be giving the last talk of the semester in the Ethnography. Entitled : Mission Telecom, Nerenberg will be asking: “What can ethnography offer scenes of dislocation and uncertainty? Stories about text messages and missionaries in New Guinea raise questions about technology, … Continue reading
In tandem with the Ethnography Lab’s Scan-a-thon event, we invite you to come and take a look at what the students have been up to since they started their research in Kensington Market in January 2015. Open to the public. Continue reading
The Italian Contemporary Film Festival of Toronto and the Ethnography Lab are honoured to invite you to the Canadian premiere of “Good Time for a Change”, the first ethnographic documentary by Salvatore Giusto, Danilo Melideo, and Manuela D’Andreamatteo. The screening will take place at the TIFF Bell Lightbox theatre at 9:30 pm on June 17, … Continue reading
RECEPTION The University of Toronto Ethnography Lab, based in the Department of Anthropology, will be hosting an end-of-the-year reception to showcase the recent results of the Kensington Market Research Project. As part of the “ANTH447H1 Ethnographic Practicum: Metropolis” course directed by Dr. Joshua Barker, Associate Professor of Anthropology, eleven undergraduate students and four graduate students … Continue reading
The Digital Ethnography Group is pleased to welcome Dr. Barry Wellman, Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto and co-author of the book “Networked: The New Social Operating System,” to the Ethnography lab on Friday, April 10th at 5pm for a discussion about some of the changes brought about in tandem with the proliferation … Continue reading
Last Thursday, Dr. Susan Hyatt from Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis gave a talk entitled ‘Collaborative ethnography and community activism: Where publics and politics meet’. The presentation slides can be downloaded in MS PowerPoint format. Please note that the file is rather large as it contains embedded audio and video: Susan Hyatt – Collaborative ethnography and … Continue reading
Collaborative ethnography, as defined by Luke Eric Lassiter, is “a very specific kind of ethnography that builds on the cooperative relationships already present in the ethnographic research process… and endeavors to engender texts that are more readable, relevant, and applicable to local communities of ethnographic collaborators (i.e. local publics).” Over the last 10 years, collaborative … Continue reading
The Ethnography in Canada hub is envisaged as a forum to bring together university and community-based researchers conducting ethnographic research in Canada. Our aims are three-fold. First, we aim to create a peer-support environment and network. This includes a space to discuss the challenges, opportunities, and questions that arise as we navigate our work as … Continue reading
I gave a presentation/ demonstration today in the Ethnography Lab about Zotero, the free bibliography management tool. For those who attended — and those who couldn’t — I am attaching the slides with my walk-throughs, recommendations and tweaks to this blog post. Please download the Microsoft PowerPoint file from the link below: Managing your bibliography … Continue reading
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