Participants will read Dr. Campos’ paper in preparation for discussion which will begin with comments by Prof. Joanne Nucho (Anthropology USC). For more information on this event, please go to our website! ethnographystudio.org/wip-insfrast...
On March 23rd we are welcoming Dr. Marcos Lopes Campos (Brazilian Center for Analysis and Planning, CEBRAP) for a “Work in Progress” session on his paper Infrastructural Aporia: data politics and temporal governance in the metropolitan train system in Rio de Janeiro.
How do science and knowledge take shape in this lively juncture? Head to our website to learn more about our events! ethnographystudio.org
How to work/collaborate/mobilize with people we love? How do we consider the challenges and possibilities that emerge when the work of thinking and doing is not severed from pre-existing interpersonal responsibilities?
We look forward to hosting Dr. Paige West on USC campus this Wednesday! This will be a space for exploring with Dr. West the sustained joys and challenges of working ethnographically with family.
We look forward to thinking through these questions together. Head to our website to find out more about Studio Days 2026! ethnographystudio.org
What makes a model a tool or object of ethnographic research? What can models allow us to envision or prevent us from seeing? What are the limitations and possibilities of models in ethnographic projects?
The 2026 Studio Days, hosted by the Ethnography Studio brings ethnographers together for a series of hands-on sessions focused on ethnographic engagement with “models”.
To find out more about this event and other Ethnography Studio happenings, head to our website: ethnographystudio.org
We asked: where does property exist? In a thing or an idea? What are the values, assumptions, or benefits of ownership? To investigate these questions we brought together 15 participants to discuss how issues of property arise in their work.
During the American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, held in New Orleans, Louisiana, the Ethnography Studio and the architecture firm Multistudio hosted a collaborative workshop to think about the relationship between property and materiality.
What is the place of facts in the 21st century? How do facts shape the future of collective life? Is a new genre of facts emerging? Join us on Thursday September 4th, 2025 at 9am PT for “The Future of Facts in Latin America” publications virtual launch.
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Register for the event here: usc.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Read more about the project here:
sites.usc.edu/futureoffacts/
Members of the Future of Facts working group will reflect on these questions and two key outcomes of this collaboration: a thematic cluster in the journal Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society, and a blog series on Cultural Anthropology’s Theorizing the Contemporary.
What is the place of facts in the 21st century? How do facts shape the future of collective life? Is a new genre of facts emerging? Join us on Thursday September 4th, 2025 at 9am PT for “The Future of Facts in Latin America” publications virtual launch.
Wrapping up our spring events recap, in January we held a peer-to-peer mentoring roundtable to support Anthropology PhD students at USC Dornsife. The facilitators were former and current Ethnography Studio members, @katieulrich.bsky.social mulrich, Melanie Ford, and Yesmar Oyarzun.
Adding to our recap of spring events: Studio fellow @emmajahodabrown.bsky.social ran a remarkable event at the Society for Cultural Anthropology Biennial, facilitating the workshop “An Ethnographic Moment: Poetry for Anthropologists.”
At this event Dr. Messeri shared her fieldwork experience with graduate students and presented her book "In the Land of the Unreal: Virtual and Other Realities in Los Angeles". @dukepress.bsky.social
More from our spring recap: in March, we hosted a workshop and talk by Dr. Lisa Messeri @Yale titled “Place: Real, Unreal, Hyperreal.” ethnographystudio.org/happenings/p...
At the end of March we explored more-than-empirical representations in a workshop about speculative ethnography with Dr. Steven Gonzalez @goetheuni.bsky.social. Read more about the event here: ethnographystudio.org/happenings/s...
We commented on some excerpts from her forthcoming book, "Beautiful Mystery" by Duke University Press.
How do we observe all the semiotic communities that inhabit our worlds? At the link below read the recap of our April conversation with the President of the Wenner-Gren Foundation, Dr. Danilyn Rutherford.
ethnographystudio.org/happenings/b...
Continuing our spring events recap, in April we learned how children and puppets as proxies bring to life ideologies of childhood and visions of a rosy future. Dr. Meghanne Barker presented her 2025 book “Throw Your Voice: Suspended Animations in Kazakhstani Childhoods”.
Read more about the event and students' work we discussed here: ethnographystudio.org/happenings/e...
Watch the recording here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqP0...
Our main event this spring was the 2025 Ethnographic Studio Salon: Interference with Dr. Meghanne Barker, Dr. Jenny Chio, and Dr. Juno Salazar Parreñas
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