Center for Ethnography Events Archive
2019-2020
| November 14, 2019 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm SSPA - Room 2112 |
Cosmopolitanism: A World View |
| November 13, 2019 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm SSPA - Room 2112 |
L'Internationale: An Outline for the Museums of the Commons |
| November 12, 2019 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm SSPA - Room 2112 |
Capturing Ambient Participation: Networked Public Spaces and the problem of cultural
value |
| October 26, 2019 |
Toxic Legacies of War: The Irvine Case Walkshop at various sites (Itinerary) For more information, contact Jennifer Terry: jterry@uci.edu |
2018-2019
| May 28-31, 2019 |
Visualizing Toxic Subjects Galley Exhibit Visualizing Toxic Subjects is a collaborative project in which participants are collecting, captioning, sharing and commenting on ethnographic visualizations, working to update ways of using a variety of visual materials in the conduct and expression of ethnography. |
| April 25, 2019 |
Experimental Ethnography Working Group Dinner |
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March 21, 2019 |
Tom Boellstorff, University of California, Irvine |
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March 11, 2019 |
Organized by Gabriele Schwab, Distinguished Professor, Department of Comparative Literature and Anthropology, niversity of California, Irvine |
| February 13, 2018 | Kaushik Sunder Rajan |
| February 7, 2019 |
Comics as Ethnographic Method Roundtable discussion with Lissa team: Sherine Hamdy, Coleman Nye, Anne Brackenbury, Caroline Brewer, Sarula Bao, Francesco Dragone
Discussants: Johanna Shapiro, (Medical Humanities) Jonathan Alexander (English), Antoinette
LaFarge (Visual Arts)
Part of Comics in Academia?! a 3-Day event with the author-artists team who created Lissa: A Story About Medical Promise, Friendship, and Revolution
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| October 31, 2018 |
KALEIDOS: A CENTER FOR INTERDISCIPLINARY ETHNOGRAPHY IN THE GLOBAL SOUTH Maka Suarez& Jorge Nuñez, Center for Interdisciplinary Ethnography-Kaleidos, FLACSO-Ecuador and University of Cuenca |
| October 31, 2018 | Steven J. Davis, Associate Professor, Department of Earth System Science - UCI |
| October 18, 2018 | Dr. Erkan Saka – Associate Professor of media and journalism at the School of Communication at Istanbul’s Bilgi University Co-sponsored with the Department of Anthropology |
2017-2018
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June 18, 2018 |
Atmospheric Ethnography: Greenhouse Gas Emissions by the Super-Rich Dan Rabinowitz, Porter Center of Environmental Studies, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Tel-Aviv University; 2017-2018: Distinguished Fellow, Advanced Research Collaboration, CUNY Graduate Center |
| May 1, 2018 |
Open Anthropology at UC Irvine: The Morphing of Ethnography into Large-Scale, Sustained Projects Bill Maurer, Dean, School of Social Sciences, Kim and Mike Fortun, UCI Department of Anthropology, and comments by Nick Seaver, Tufts University |
2015-2016
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Experimental Ethnographic Forms Juxtaposition/Intervention/Co-creation Karen Waltorp and Christian Vium, Aarhus University, Eye and Mind Lab and Camera as Cultural Critique Research Unit |
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| February 24, 2016 |
23rd Annual Margolis Lecture T. Alexander Aleinikoff, Visiting Professor of Law and Huo Global Policy Initiative Research Fellow Columbia Global Policy Initiative, Columbia University Law School Co-sponsored event |
2014-2015
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Ecologies in beta: The City as Infrastructure of Apprenticeships Alberto Corsin-Jimenez, Spanish National Research Council |
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| April 23, 2015 |
23rd Annual Margolis Lecture T. Alexander Aleinikoff, Visiting Professor of Law and Huo Global Policy Initiative Research Fellow Columbia Global Policy Initiative, Columbia University Law School Co-sponsored event |
| February 27, 2015 |
The Undersea Network Nicole Starosielski, Assistant Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication, NYU Co-sponsored event |
2013-2014
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Grad Student Conference: Like Oil and Water - Designing Social Research on Resource Conflicts across Categories and Scales Nikhil Anand, Princeton University; Andrea Ballestero, Rice University; David Hughes, Rutgers University; Valerie Olson, UCI Co-sponsored event |
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| April 11, 2014 |
Big: Culture and Data in the Digital Field The UCI Center for Ethnography and the Intel Science & Technology Center for Social Computing Co-sponsored workshop |
| March 7, 2014 |
Markets, Culture, and Consumption Workshop The Paul Merage School of Business and Center for Ethnography |
| February 8, 2014 |
Ethnocharrette 2.0 Joseph Dumit, UC Davis, and Kim Fortun, RPI A conversation about ethnographic method. |
| February 7, 2014 |
Up the Anthropology Joseph Dumit, UC Davis, and Kim Fortun, RPI A conversation about anthropology and undergraduate pedagogy. |
| February 5, 2014 |
Of Cats and Plants in Iran: Ethnography, the Ordinary, and the Ethics and Poetics Of Invasion Nahal Naficy, Tehran Co-sponsored event |
| December 6, 2013 |
Fieldwork After Ethnos Tobias Rees, McGill University; Stephen J. Collier, New School University; and Christopher Kelty, UCLA One day conference |
2012-2013
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June 2013 |
Participation in and co-sponsored an Anthropology/Art Installation in the Headquarters of the World Trade Organization, Geneva, an experiment in creating ethnographic data on expert cultures through art projects. |
| May 25, 2013 |
Speculative Ecologies: Using Theories of Ecology to Re-Imagine Your Research Half-day workshop |
| May 9, 2013 |
Information Discussion on The Asthma Files Kim and Mike Fortun, Science and Technology Studies Program, Rensseleaer Polytechnic Institute Second conference on “Asthma Files In Tehran”, Co-organized with the Center for Persian Studies, UCI |
| May 8, 2013 |
“Ethnography by Other Means: A Turn toward Methods” Kim Fortun, “PECE: Digital Platforms for Experimental and Collaborative Ethnography” George Marcus, “Ethnography In the Interfaces Between Art and Design” Co-organized and sponsored with Professor Elana Zilberg, Department of Communications, UCSD |
| March 7-9, 2013 |
Anthropology of Markets & Consumption Conference Co-sponsored event |
| February 13, 2013 |
Street Workout: A Collective Production of Globally Shared Bodily Techniques through Semiotic-Material Mediation Alain Mueller, Institute of the University of Neuchatel, Switzerland, Resident Research Associate of the Center for Ethnography |
2011-2012
| June 7, 2012 |
Magic and War: What Soldiers Take with Them Carol Burke, Department of English, UCI |
| June 7-July 26, 2012 |
Learning by Doing at the Farm Curated by Robbie Kett, UCI Anthropology Graduate Student, and Anna Kryczka, UCI Visual Studies Graduate Student Co-sponsored event |
| May 17-18, 2012 |
Collaborative Research Workshop: Oral History of Iranian Scientists, Engineers, and Medical Professionals: Tehran Asthma Files (TFA) Co-sponsored event |
| May 8, 2012 |
Collaborative Performances: Agency and Gender in California Iranian Women's Activism Philip Grant, Graduating Doctoral Student, Department of Anthropology, UCI Grant had been supported by the Center in his production of a para-site during the course of his fieldwork. |
| May 4, 2012 |
Design/Ethnography/Method: Problems and Potentials Melissa Cefkin, Anthropologist, Service System Research, IBM; Elizabeth Chin, Anthropology, Occidental College; Christopher Throop, Anthropology, UCLA; Elana Zilberg, Communication, UCSD |
| April 26, 2012 |
The Center sponsored a meeting on the usefulness of perspectives on ‘improvisation’ for ethnographic method. In this second meeting, interested students joined faculty, and there were discussions about making such meetings a sponsored, continuing activity of the Center. |
| April 25, 2012 |
The Spirit of Calculation: Contemporary Finance in the Weberian Imaginary Arjun Appadurai, New York University Co-sponsored event |
| April 9-16, 2012 |
214 SQ. FT : an installation Part of the Center for Ethnography Rethinking Design Series Co-sponsored and co-organized installation |
| April 9, 2012 |
City as Laboratory Series at CicLAvia: Panel on Experiments in Urban Fieldwork at UC Irvine Alexandra Lippman, Adonia Lugo, and Joanne Nucho, UCI Anthropology Graduate Students |
| April 5, 2012 |
Ethnography of Virtual Groups of Play: From Multi-located Ethnography to the Summoning of the Field Olivier Servais, University of Louvain |
| February 16, 2012 |
Conversations with Étienne Baliba Co-sponsored event |
| February 8, 2012 |
Noon Workshop: Improvisation The Center sponsored a noon workshop on the interdisciplinary uses and meanings of ‘improvisation’ in the arts and qualitative research methods such as ethnography. This meeting was organized by Professor Julia Elyachar of Anthropology and included faculty from the arts, including dance, theater, and music. Plans were laid for future meetings and the inclusion of interested graduate students. |
| January 13, 2012 |
Urban Sustainability in the Age of Climate Justice Andrew Ross, New York University |
| January 27, 2012 |
American Anthropology: A Conference at UC Irvine Honoring Tom Boellstorff Co-sponsored event |
| December 3, 2011 |
The convening of the Center’s second ‘ethnocharrette’ as a pedagogical tool, with the participation of graduate students from law and society, anthropology, informatics, and sociology. Professor Susan Ossman, UC Riverside, attended as a guest commentator. Professor Keith Murphy reported on this event. |
| November 10, 2011 |
Constructing and Sharing Body Techniques through the Mediation of Things: The Translocal Examples of the Hardcore Punk Scene and the Street Workout Movement (with a Reflection on How Slippery Fieldwork Can Be) Alain Mueller, Postdoctoral Researcher, Center for Ethnography, UCI Co-sponsored event |
| October 11, 2011 |
An Informal Conversation - Mixing Design and Anthropology Elizabeth Chin and Sean Donahue, Art Center College of Design |
2010-2011
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Seeing the Sex in the Moche Sex Pots Mary Weismantel, Professor of Anthropology, Northwestern University Co-sponsored event |
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| May 4, 2011 |
Weblogistan Goes to War: Representational Practices, Gendered Soldiers, and Neoliberal Diasporic Entrepreneurship Sima Shakhsari, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Houston Co-sponsored event |
| May 2, 2011 |
Transformations of Ethnography Both Within and Without Academia Robert Willim and Tom O'Dell, Lund University |
| April 28-29, 2011 |
Cultural Knowledge Production and the Public Understanding: Iran Since the Islamic Revolution Co-convener of Ethnography of Iran Workshop with the Center for Persian Studies |
| April 8, 2011 |
Traces and Remainders Co-sponsored 'Anthropology in Transit' conference |
| March 4, 2011 |
More Tales of the Field John Van Maasen, Erwin H. Schell Professor of Management, Sloan School of Management, MIT Co-sponsored event |
| October 22-23, 2010 |
Love & Terror: A Forum Co-sponsored event |
2009-2010
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June 8, 2010 |
Seminar on Yucatan, Mexico "Trova music and politics in Yucatan, Mexico" by Dr. Gabriela Vargas-Cetina, Autonomous University of Yucatan, Mexico "Food and the making of regional taste in Yucatan" by Dr. Steffan Igor Ayora-Diaz, Autonomous University of Yucatan, Mexico |
| May 10, 2010 |
The Islamic Revolution and Academic Research: Three Generations of American Ethnographic Work Co-sponsored event |
| April 22-23, 2010 |
CANCELED: Counterinsurgency and Humanism Isaiah Wilson, Lt. Colonel, West Point; Christoph Zuercher, University of Ottawa; David Price, Saint Martin’s University; Ruthie Gilmore, USC |
| April 1, 2010 |
Shadow Elite: How the World’s New Power Brokers Undermine Democracy, Government, and the Free Market Janine Wedel, Professor, School of Public Policy, George Mason University Co-sponsored event |
| March 17, 2010 |
Institute as Ethnographer: Doing Research on Social Philanthropy Bill Maurer, Anthropology Professor and Department Chair, UCI Discussant: Mimi Ito, Research Scientist, Humanities Research Institute Conversations on Collaboration Series |
| February 19, 2010 |
Speak, Write, Paint Colonial Scripts and Indigenous Literacies in Latin America Co-sponsored symposium |
2008-2009
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June 1-2, 2009 |
Jamer Hunt, Parsons School of Design at the New School Ethnography by Design Discussant: Anne Burdick, Chair of the Media Design Program at Art Center, PasadenaCenter Para-Site Workshop Question/Answer Session |
| May 21, 2009 |
Militarization of Social Thought W.T. Mitchell, University of Chicago, and Ghassan Hage, University of Melbourne Studio Sessions: “Militarizing Critical Theory: War, Terror, Violence” Co-sponsored with UCHRI |
| April 24-25, 2009 |
At the Juncture of Social Theory and Ethnography: Two Days of Conversations These conversations, held at Rice University, were intended to examine how social theory is used to contextualize and give shape to projects of ethnographic research today. Ethnographies have become more theoretical since the 1980s, but how theory "works" in relation to ethnographic inquiry is one of the most vexing and interesting questions about method, the forms of research practice, the identity and authority of ethnography, and the imaginaries of those who produce and participate in it. Participants included Dominic Boyer (Rice), James Faubion (Rice), Rebecca Lemov (Harvard), Andreas Glaeser (Chicago), George Marcus (UCI), Kaushik Sunder Rajan (UCI), Kim Fortun (RPI), and Phil Grant (UCI). Co-Sponsored by the Center for Ethnography, UCI, and the Department of Anthropology, Rice University |
| April 9, 2009 |
War, Terror, Violence Dilip Gaonkar, Northwestern University Studio Sessions: “Militarizing Critical Theory: War, Terror, Violence” Co-sponsored with UCHRI |
| February 24, 2009 |
Freedom and Blasphemy: Indonesian Press Bans and Danish Cartoons Webb Keane, Professor and Director, Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan Co-sponsored event |
| February 3, 2009 |
The Deep Play of Theatre-Making: Rehearsal Poetics and Pragmatics Constance Perin, Visiting Scholar, Anthropology, MIT |
| February 3, 2009 |
The Value of Options: Statistics, Historical Models and the Path from El Salvador to Iraq David Pederson, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, UCSD Co-sponsored event |
| January 29, 2009 |
Ethnography By Design Conversation with Kimberly Christen, Washington State University; Ramesh Srinivasan, UCLA Moderated by Chris Kelty, UCLA |
| January 24, 2009 |
The Theoretical and the Practical: Iranian Intellectuals Para-site conference with guest speaker Ramin Jahanbegloo Co-sponsored with the Center for Persian Studies, UCI |
| January 13, 2009 | Alessandro Duranti, Professor and Chair, Department of Anthropology, UCLA |
| Nov. 24-25, 2008 |
Red Cents and Indian Country: Native Claims to Things Conference organized by Justin Richland and Bill Maurer This conference brought together Native law scholars, jurists and tribal leaders to talk about the ways they employ para-ethnographic theories and methods in the construction of notions of "Indian," "Tribe" and nation, sovereignty, etc. in their work. Co-sponsored by the Department of Anthropology, the Center in Law, Society and Culture, and the Center for Ethnography |
| October 22, 2008 | Conversation with Paul Dourish, Professor, Informatics, UCI; Chris Kelty, Information Studies, UCLA; and George Marcus, Director, Center for Ethnography |
| October 14, 2008 |
Inside the UC Budget Bureaucracy: An Adventure in Critical Ethnography Chris Newfield, Department of English, UC Santa Barbara |
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Laura McNamara, Sandia Laboratories, Member, AAA Ad Hoc Commission on the Engagement of Anthropology with the US Security and Intelligence Communities Co-hosted with UCHRI |
| May 5, 2008 |
STUDIO-SESSIONS: Militarizing Critical Theory: Interrogation Page DuBois (UCSD), Laura McNamara (Sandia Labs), Jean Maria Arrig (independent scholar), and Ray Bennet (US Army Interrogator, interrogated Saddam Hussein) |
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Gender, Connectivity, & Change in the Gulf Arab States Co-sponsored event |
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| March 17, 2008 |
A Dialogue between the Anthropologies of Law and Public Policy Donald Brenneis, Professor of Anthropology, University of California Santa Cruz and Carol Greenhouse, Professor of Anthropology, Princeton University Co-sponsored event |
| March 14-15, 2008 |
Experimental Systems as Ethnographic Modality Co-Sponsored Event with Native Claims in the (Post) Colonial Americas |
| February 21, 2008 |
Universal History at the Edge of Culture Susan Buck-Morss, Professor, Department of Government, Cornell University Co-sponsored event |
| February 4-5, 2008 |
Two Talks by Luiz Eduardo Soares on Writing and Governing in Rio de Janeiro On Writing and Governing in Rio de Janeiro Luiz Eduardo Soares, Professor, Department of Social Sciences, State University of Rio de Janeiro and Municipal Secretary of Violence Prevention in Nova Igaraçu, State of Rio de Janeiro |
| January 12, 2008 |
The Twenty-first Century Silk Road: Reconceptualizing the Middle Ground Sylvia Yanagisako, Professor, Department of Anthropology, Stanford University and Lisa Rofel, Professor, Department of Anthropology, UC Santa Cruz An Ethnography Of/As Collaboration Event |
| January 12, 2008 |
‘Parole’ Para-site Conference Conference Organizer: Robert Werth, Graduate Student, School of Social Ecology This conference was part of the Center As Para-site in Ethnographic Research Projects series |
| December 3, 2007 |
Academia and Military/Intelligence Operations Report Achille Mbembe and Caren Kaplan, University of California Davis; Saree Makdisi, UCLA; and Jenny Terry, UCI In partnership with the UCHRI, the Center for Ethnography sponsored a series of studio sessions that examine the uses and complicities of concepts and theories of culture developed in academic domains in the contemporary conduct of warfare, and of intelligence and security operations. The first studio session: "Militarizing Critical Theory" occurred in May of 2007 |
| November 14, 2007 |
STUDIO-SESSIONS: Michael Taussig, Professor, Department of Anthropology, Columbia University Sailing Through Color — a discussion of the role of color in the bodily unconscious I really saw that — a talk concerning the meaning of drawings in fieldwork notebooks and taking up the issue of witnessing Co-hosted event |
| August 22-25, 2007 |
HOIT 2007 — “Home Informatics and Telematics: ICT for the Next Billion” Co-sponsored with the UCI Center for Research on Information Technology and Organizations (CRITO) and the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India |
2006-2007
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Problems, Scope and Limits of Ethnography in the Realm of Calculating Elites Kim Fortun, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Vincent Lepinay, MIT; Douglas Holmes, SUNY, Binghamton; Julia Elyachar, NYU; Paul Kockelman, Barnard College One-Day Conference |
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| May 4-5, 2007 |
What is so hard about soft law(s)? De-texturizing law’s structures of feeling Co-sponsored Graduate Student-Faculty Workshop |
| May 2-5, 2007 |
Chancellor's Lecture: Sally Engle Merry Professor of Anthropology and Law and Society, New York University Co-sponsored with UCI Center for Law and Society |
| April 19, 2007 |
Collaboration is My Middle Name Elinor Ochs, Department of Anthropology and Linguistics, UCLA The Ethnography Of/As Collaboration |
| April 13-14, 2007 |
Experimental Systems, States and Speculations: Anthropology at the Intersection of Life, Science and Capital Co-sponsored conference |
| April 4, 2007 | Conversation with Steven Epstein, Bill Maurer, Deborah Heath and Michael Montoya |
| March 20-21, 2007 |
The Ethnography of Intellectuals and the Predicaments of Theory Today James Faubion, Rice University; Dominic Boyer, Cornell University March 20, 2007 Rethinking Postmodernism through the Ethnography of Intellectual Culture (Open and Free) March 21, 2007 Luncheon and Talk (by invitation only) |
| March 2, 2007 |
Symposium and Midnight University Co-sponsored with UC Davis |
| November 4, 2006 |
Methods of Humanization: Death Penalty Mitigation and Ethnography as Antidiscipline The Center for Ethnography welcomed eight of the nation's leading capital defense advocates to begin a dialogue with academic ethnographers at UCI. By setting the knowledge practices of engaged academics and advocates side by side, this event represented an attempt to co-articulate the imaginary of the "human" as a potential point of convergence for fugitive knowledges. |
2005-2006
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May 11, 2006 |
Refunctioning Ethnography Redux Bill Maurer and George Marcus reflected on the "Refunctioning Ethnography" workshop series and discussed possibilities for charting new approaches to ethnography through collaborations between CGPACS and the Center for Ethnography at UC Irvine |
| February 10-11, 2006 |
Ethnographic Experiments in the Anthropology of Biosecurity Stephen Collier, New School; Andrew Lakoff, UCSD; and Paul Rabinow, UC Berkeley Discussant: James Faubion, Rice University |
| January 27-28, 2006 | Invited participants included Douglas Holmes, SUNY Binghamton; Christopher Kelty, Rice University; Hiro Miyazaki, Cornell University; and Annelise Riles, Cornell University Co-sponsored event |
| October 23-24, 2005 |
Lively Capital 2.0: Ethnographic Method and Techno-Corporate Critique |
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