Ethnography Lab

https://ethnographylab.ca/2024/09/23/navigating-dangerous-fields-storytelling-waiting-and-ethnography-as-not-writing-down-by-omer-ozcan/

Please join us for the second Ethnography Lab 2024/2025 event.

Dr. Omer Ozcan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Toronto, and he holds a Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Texas at Austin. His work focuses on the temporal and spatial effects of militarization and human rights violations in Turkey. Approaching waiting as a distinct temporal orientation and modes of political action, his work explores how local Kurds withstand, challenge, and evade spatiotemporal restrictions and human rights violations that shape the rhythm of everyday life in the Kurdish borderlands. He currently works on his book manuscript, Strategic Waiting: Violence, Mobility, and Agency in the Kurdish Borderlands in Turkey.

Navigating Dangerous Fields: Storytelling, Waiting and Ethnography as not “Writing Down” by Omer Ozcan n the summer of 2012, when the war between the Kurdish guerrillas and the Turkish army reached a crescendo, I started my ethnographic research in Gever (Yüksekova in Turkish), a Kurdish border town…

https://munkschool.utoronto.ca/event/coronasur-asian-religions-covidian-age

Come join me for a book launch online this Friday.

APPLICATION DEADLINE TODAY

Join the Ethnography Lab! A call for Student Convener Applications

The Ethnography Lab would like to announce the opening of several volunteer convener positions to provide unique opportunities for ethnography-focused collaborations, mentorship, research, projects, and presentations based on thematic interests. The call is open to undergraduate and graduate students across all three campuses and disciplines.

The Ethnography Lab invites applications for up to four (4) volunteer conveners to join our community starting mid-October 2022. The duration of the role is October 2022 to April 2023, with the possibility of extending to August 2023 or beyond, based on the type and success of the project and budget.

The Ethnography Lab Student Convener role is open to current students at the University of Toronto who have a strong interest in ethnography as a method, a form of writing, and a research perspective, and who are motivated to lead a group of participants in initiating and managing a project or activity that will contribute to the Ethnography Lab’s mission to promote ethnography in academic and public inquiries. Each convener will be responsible for recruiting participants and organizing projects or activities related to a specific ethnographic topic or theme. Themes may be related to one of our existing priority areas: visual and sensory ethnography, urban ethnography, infrastructure ethnography, ethnography in Canada, and undergraduate ethnography, or the theme may be a new topic proposed by the applicant. Examples of activities that conveners might initiate include: organizing a small conference or speaker series, establishing a reading and discussion group, curating an ethnographic or autoethnographic art collection, preparing a publication, creating a blog or podcast series, organizing community outreach events, writing op-eds, etc.

Conveners are expected to hold a bi-weekly meeting with their participants in the Ethnography Lab and contribute to peer learning, collaboration, and teamwork. Conveners should be prepared to participate in a public presentation or seminar at the end of April and to share their projects through the Ethnography Lab website. Conveners will work with the coordinator and become a part of the Ethnography Lab community.

The role carries with it a modest budget for activity or event expenses (for example, refreshments and poster printing for events), mentorship, access to a computer and printing, audio recorders, relevant software, and website access. Conveners may use the Ethnography Lab seminar room in the Department of Anthropology for their meetings and/or events.

To apply, send the following by email to: [email protected]

A curriculum vitae;

A short bio (100 words);

A budget for your proposed activities (optional);

The name of the interest group or your plan to convene (e.g. visual or sensory ethnography, urban ethnography, infrastructure ethnography, or other), and a project or activity title and description of the project, activity, event, etc. you plan to organize (about one paragraph, 1-page max) [e.g. conference or speaker series, reading group, publication, creating a blog or podcast series, organizing community outreach events, writing op-eds, etc.].

Deadline: October 11, 2022. Start Date: October 15. More about the Ethnography Lab: ethnographylab.ca

Reminder to APPLY BY TOMORROW, SEPT 20TH!!

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The University of Toronto Ethnography Lab is extremely pleased to announce a singular opportunity for graduate students to participate in an innovative research initiative together with ethnography labs in Montreal (Concordia U.), Los Angeles (USC), Philadelphia (UPenn), and Kelowna in BC (UBC). Funded by a SSHRC Partnership Development Grant, the initiative seeks to explore the ethnographic possibilities of research conducted across a network of labs.

We are seeking three advanced University of Toronto graduate students to join our Ethnography Lab team. Tasks will include some or all of the following: design, conduct, analyze and disseminate research in collaboration with other Toronto team members; design experiments in multimodal ethnographic research methods and research mobilization; participate in virtual and in-person network meetings, workshops and conferences with students and faculty from other labs; travel to and participation in research conducted at other labs; host student researchers from other labs in Toronto.

This network initiative will unfold over the course of the next three years, and the pace of project activities will vary over that time; however, the current cohort of students should be available for initial meetings in early October (~6 hrs) and for approximately 50-100 hrs of work between January 2023 and the end of summer 2023.

Remuneration: To be rated, but we expect it to be $30.00 to 35.00/hour + vacation pay & benefits, in accordance with UofT employment rules.

Applicants should have experience in designing, conducting, and analyzing ethnographic research; experience in working in more-than-textual media and/or web design a plus; must have the ability to work independently as well as work collaboratively with others.

Interested applicants should send in a short statement of interest that includes a description of ethnographic research experience, as well as a c.v., to [email protected] by September 20, 2023.

For more information, feel free to contact: [email protected]