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Luiz Eduardo Soares On Writing Elite da Tropa Para-Site Event January 12, 2008 SSPA 2112 9:00am-6:00pm (more details soon) Conversation with Academia and Military/Intelligence Operations In partnership with the UCHRI, the Center for Ethnography is sponsoring 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 this year. There will be another studio session of the same character, co-sponsored with UCHRI, on the topic of "Interrogation'. We hope to schedule this one for the coming spring. Aside from members of the AAA Commission, we plan to invite others who have practiced interrogation, or been interrogated by state agencies. Read Jesse Cheng's report on the Center's first Para-site Experiement: August 22-25, 2007 The Center for Research on Information Technology and Organizations (CRITO), University of California, Irvine and the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, are pleased to announce an international conference on Home/ Community Oriented ICT for the Next Billion. The conference will be held in Chennai, India. This event is co-sponsored by the Center for Ethnoghraphy May 2-5, 2007 May 12, 2007 April 19, 2007 April 4, 2007 Conversation with March 20-21, 2007 March 2, 2007 The Center for Ethnography is pleased to welcome 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 represents an attempt to co-articulate the imaginary of the "human" as a potential point of convergence for fugitive knowledges. For more information, please see www.capitalethnographyproject.com October 23-24,
2005 This workshop will investigate methodological issues relating to the intersection of the life sciences and capital. “Lively Capital” refers to the ways in which the life sciences are literally incorporated into market regimes, as well as to the lively affects – the emotions and desires – at play when technologies and research impinge upon experiences of embodiment, kinship, identity, disability or citizenship. As a follow up to the first Lively Capital workshop, in which presenters explored how new legal, social, cultural and institutional mechanisms are regulating the global emergence of biotechnologies, this year’s workshop will focus on the relationship between the objects that constitute “Lively Capital” and ethnography as a method that can be used to trace and investigate these objects. Sponsored by: the National
Science Foundation, the Newkirk Center for Science and Society at UCI,
the UC Humanities Research Institute, the UC Office of Research and Graduate
Studies, and the Department of Anthropology, UC Irvine January 27-28,
2006 This workshop will explore the new functions ethnography has taken on in the study of contemporary cultural, social and technological transformations. Where ethnography previously referred solely to the in-depth participant-observation and description of a social or cultural formation in situ, ethnography more recently has involved multi-sited research on social and cultural milieux that transcend particular places and involve networks of expertise and knowledge linked through new communications technologies and flows of goods, people and ideas. Ethnographers often find the milieux they would study already analyzed, as it were, by experts within the fields under investigation. Ethnographic research on such fields – generally auto-analytical or auto-documentary arenas like bureaucracy, finance, science and the like – thus takes on the character of collaboration with one's subjects rather than empathetic rapport. Second, and implicit in the preceding observation, ethnography has become a tool in policy and professional fields, particularly those fields that seek to account for themselves through various qualitative forms of auto-documentation and audit. Invited participants include Douglas Holmes (SUNY Binghamton), Christopher Kelty (Rice University), Hiro Miyazaki (Cornell University), and Annelise Riles (Cornell University) Sponsored by the School of Social Sciences, the School of Social Ecology, the Paul Merage School of Business, the Center for Global Peace and Conflict Studies, the Center in Law, Society and Culture, and the Departments of Anthropology and Sociology
This workshop is intended to engage in conversation the three principal investigators of an ambitious, innovative enterprise in collaborative ethnographic research. The forms of ethnographic research are changing within the designs and ambitions of such collective projects. Our interest will be primarily to reflect upon and clarify changes in standard practices and techniques of ethnographic inquiry that this research group is improvizing as it launches its projects within the contemporary trend by government and private agencies of sponsoring research on biosecurity. This group is primarily interested what becomes of basic knowledge when research is sponsored under these auspices. What is distinctive about this Laboratory
is the attempt to conduct ethnography within a radically conceived notion
of temporality where "the contemporary" defines a condition
of dynamism in which structures and norms within familiar institutions
and arrangements are in such flux that ethnography can no longer depend
on the usual historical precedents and social theoretical framing concepts
to launch it. What is required is a more radical derivation of the analytic
apparatus of ethnography from working collaborations with subjects whose
understandings of events and processes in which they are involved guide
the adoption of an analytic apparatus of ethnography itself. Such an operation
requires new ways of thinking about designing ethnography which is the
challenge that this research group takes up in pursuing subjects through
an understanding of contemporaneity that resists easy conceptual manipulation.
March
31-April 1, 2006 The purpose of this workshop is to explore the shifting relationships among ethnographic fieldwork, pedagogy and the production of social scientific and humanistic knowledge. We are inviting recent Irvine and Rice PhDs to begin an intellectual engagement with the failures, re-routings and missed opportunities of the enterprise of fieldwork. The point of such an exercise is not to recreate narratives of anthropological perseverance and triumph over adversity, but to think analytically about the productivity of ethnographic failures. Each participant is being asked to reflect critically on their own research methods and graduate and postgraduate training and the connect or disconnect between those methods and training and the "product" that results from ethnographic research. The intent is to provide a space for genuine critical reflection on the means and ends of ethnography. Invited participants include Alex Balasescu (Royal U for Women, Bahrain), Erica Bornstein (U Wisconsin-Milwaukee), Lisa Breglia (Wesleyan U), Jae Chung (U Stuttgart), Kimberley Coles (U Edinburgh), Megan Crowley-Matoka (U Pittsburgh), Kim Fortun (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), Lamia Karim (U Oregon), Kris Peterson (Michigan State U), Deepa Reddy (U Houston, Clear Lake), and Christina Schwenkel (Stanford U). To download the papers for this workshop, click here. May 11, 2006 Bill Maurer and George Marcus reflect on the workshop series and discuss possibilities for charting new approaches to ethnography through collaborations between CGPACS and the Center for Ethnography at UC Irvine.
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