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Current Events for 2007-08
Calendar 07-08
The Center for Ethnography
and UC HRI will host a
TALK
by
Laura McNamara
Sandia Laboratories
Iron Hands in
Ethnographically-Infromed Gloves?
Tuesday, May 6, 2008
12:00noon-2:00pm
UCHRI Conference Room
338
Administration Building
The Center for Ethnography
will host
"Experimental Systems as Ethnographic Modality"
March 14-15, 2008
SSPB 1208
9:00am-5:00pm
Co-Sponsor Event
with
Native Claims in the (Post) Colonial Americas
March 14, 2008
Panel Presentation:
11:00-1:30
Roundtable Discussion
2:00-4:00
Location: TBA
Co-Sponsor Event
with
The Center in Law, Society and Culture and The Department of Anthropology
A Dialogue between the Anthropologies of Law and Public Policy
March 17, 2008
HRI Conference Room 338
10:00-4:00 pm
RSVP by March 10, 2008
scushman@uci.edu
Co-Sponsor Event
Gender, Connectivity, & Change in the Gulf Arab States
April 18-19, 2008
(click on title for more information)
UCHRI and Center for Ethnography held second in series of Studio Sessions
on December 3,2007
Academia and Military/Intelligence Operations
Report
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.
Past Events
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Center co-sponsors
The Irvine Seminars in the Anthropology of Modernity
Colloquium
Susan Buck-Morss
'Universal History at the Edge of Culture'
Thursday, Feb 21, 2008
3:30-5:00 pm
SSPB Room 4250
Two Talks
by
Luiz Eduardo Soares
On Writing and Governing in Rio de Janeiro
February 4, 2008
3:30-5:00pm
HRI Conference Room 338
On Writing Elite da Tropa
February 5, 2008
12:00noon-2:00pm
Social Ecology I Room 112
Para-Site Event January 12, 2008 SSPA 2112 9:00am-6:00pm (more details soon)
Conversation with
Sylvia Yanagisako
and
Lisa Rofel
The Twenty-first Century Silk Road: Reconceptualizing the Middle Ground
January 25, 2008 SSPB 4250 12:00-2:30pm
Ethnography is perhaps the most
important and most widely used qualitative mode of inquiry into social
and cultural conditions, not only in the academic social sciences, but
also increasingly in organizations and activities outside the university
as well, from PARC to the Federal Reserve. There is no single definition
of ethnography or uniform practice of ethnographic method, nor should
there be: ethnographic practice responds and adapts to the field situation.
As Dame Marilyn Strathern of Cambridge University has written, ethnography,
through participant-observation, interviewing, and other qualitative techniques,
is a "deliberate attempt to generate more data than the researcher
is aware of at the time of collection," and is thus eminently suited
to the study of unpredictable outcomes, complex emerging social formations,
and technological and market change.
Established in 2006, the Center for Ethnography will work to develop at the University of California, Irvine a series of sustained theoretical and methodological conversations about ethnographic research practices across the disciplines that will have a broadly transformative effect on ethnographic research methodologies and theoretical developments. The Center will support innovative collaborative ethnographic research as well as research on the theoretical and methodological refunctioning of ethnography for contemporary cultural, social and technological transformations. One aim of the Center is to foster methodological innovation in ethnography across the campus. More broadly, however, its goal is to situate the University of California Irvine at the center of such innovations internationally.
CONTINUING THEMES FOR CENTER EVENTS THAT DEFINE MULTI-EVENT OR EVEN MULTI-YEAR PROJECTS
CRITIQUE IS OUT THERE: THE ETHNOGRAPHY OF REFLEXIVE KNOWLEDGE
ETHNOGRAPHY OF/AS COLLABORATION
THE CENTER AS PARA-SITE IN ETHNOGRAPHIC RESEARCH PROJECTS