The Faculty of Music and the University of Toronto Ethnography Lab seeks one or two graduate student research assistants to support a joint research project “Keeping Kensington “Kensington”: Value and Affordability in Toronto’s Kensington Market.” This project is funded by the Connaught Community Research Partnership Program. Graduate student researchers will undertake engaged, qualitative, online and in-person research … Continue reading
We would like to invite you for our next event in the Multispecies Ethnography Series—a discussion titled “Vernacularizing Nature: Plasticities of the ‘Eco’ in India’s Public Parks” with Prof. Kajri Jain (Art History/ Visual Studies, University of Toronto) on May 2nd at 3 pm EST. This discussion follows Prof. Jain’s talk with the same title … Continue reading
Mitchell Akiyama’s discussion with the Ethnographic Variations Working Group has been rescheduled for April 11th at 11:30 am ET. Special Guest: Mitchell Akiyama Date/Time: April 11, 11:30 am ET About: Mitchell Akiyama is a Toronto-based scholar, composer, and artist. His eclectic body of work includes writings about sound, metaphors, animals, and media technologies; scores for film and … Continue reading
The workshop, Faith in Immunity: Religion, Covid-19 Vaccines and Structures of Trust is a workshop about Covid vaccines, ritual communities and how cosmologies and narratives beyond biomedicine shape human ideas on protection, prevention, and trust. This workshop interrogates notions of immunity, focusing on the ways in which it is also culturally constructed and socially shaped through processes and … Continue reading
Please join Professor Shiho Satsuka and the students of ANT6032: More-than-Human-Ethnography for a graduate student workshop on March 29 and April 5th from 12 – 2 pm in AP246. Continue reading
Please join the Lab’s Multispecies Ethnography Working Group for a conversation with Professor Anand Vivek Taneja. Title: Jinns and Species: A Conversation on Saintly Beings, Religion, and Multispecies Ethnography Date/Time: Tuesday, March 29th, 2022, 3-4:30 EST To register or for more information, please email Noha Fikry at n.fikry@mail.utoronto.ca Abstract: In this conversation, Anand Taneja will … Continue reading
The Entertaining the Graphic in the Ethnographic Working Group is hosting an introduction to Photoshop skills workshop series in two parts. Week 1: Fundamentals of Layering & Week 2: Basic Photoshop skills Dates: Week 1: Tuesday 29th of March, 2022 Week 2: Tuesday 26th of April, 2022 Week 1 & 2 are a continuum; … Continue reading
Ethnography Lab presents Between Parasitism and Mutuality: Multispecies Ethnography in Plantation Ecologies Featuring: Professor Sophie Chao Wednesday, March 9th, 2022, 4-5:30 PM EST Please email Noha at n.fikry@mail.utoronto.ca for zoom info! About this Event:In this discussion, we think about the possibilities and limitations of multispecies ethnography on plantations. In particular, we focus on 2 articles that Sophie … Continue reading
This session will consider what ethnography can bring to the study of archives, and what archives can bring to ethnographic study. About this event Please join the Ethnography Lab for our upcoming Methods Café, “Ethnography In and Of the Archive,” featuring Professor Natalie Rothman. Date/Time: March 8, 2022, 12 -1 pm ET Location: Zoom This … Continue reading
Please join Ethnographic Variations for a discussion about ethnographic practices and methodological possibilities, featuring Dr. Stephanie Springgay. Date/Time: February 28, 2-3pm EST Location: Zoom About this event The Ethnographic Variations group at Anthropology’s Ethnography Lab invites you to join us on February 28 when we will be joined by a very special guest Dr. Stephanie … Continue reading
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