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ethnography and experimentation at USC - posts by @aballes2.bsky.social, @katieulrich.bsky.social, Aline Bravo, and Emma Jahoda-Brown

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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.
August 28, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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.
August 28, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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.
June 26, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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.”
June 23, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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...
June 19, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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...
June 17, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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.
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June 13, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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”.
June 9, 2025 at 3:19 PM
We had an amazing spring full of events and visitors! We'll be posting over the next several weeks about some of our favorite moments.
May 31, 2025 at 6:56 PM
This is happening tomorrow (April 11) at 3pm PT! Please join us.
Join us for the 2025 Ethnographic Salon on the theme of INTERFERENCE. Feat. our fantastic guests Meghanne Barker, Jenny Chio, and Juno Salazar Parreñas. Hybrid roundtable on April 11, 3pm PT. In USC MCB 102 or register for Zoom link bit.ly/Salon_2025. @aballes2.bsky.social
April 10, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Join us for the 2025 Ethnographic Salon on the theme of INTERFERENCE. Feat. our fantastic guests Meghanne Barker, Jenny Chio, and Juno Salazar Parreñas. Hybrid roundtable on April 11, 3pm PT. In USC MCB 102 or register for Zoom link bit.ly/Salon_2025. @aballes2.bsky.social
March 31, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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On April 8, join our seminar to learn about Mike Lee's (INSEAD) research project about how four organizations temporarily centralized while upholding their commitments to decentralization 👀🔎✨

Register here: www.ethnographyatelier.org/seminars/dur...

#qualitativeresearch #ethnography
March 13, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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On April 15th, we are hosting Ruthanne Huising (ESSEC), Samantha Ortiz Casillas (Nova), and Marjolaine Rostain (Warwick Business School) for a #workshop on #writing #fieldnotes 🖋️

Join us to learn about the dos, donts, and whys of fieldnotes, join us ✨🎉 www.ethnographyatelier.org/workshops-1/...
March 26, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Join us tomorrow for this talk with Dr. Lisa Messeri!
Join us in two weeks for a talk by Dr. Lisa Messeri (Yale) on her new book, "In the Land of the Unreal: Virtual and Other Realities in Los Angeles" (Duke U Press, 2024). Taking place in-person on March 11, noon-1:30pm, at USC's Taper Hall (THH) 309K. @aballes2.bsky.social
March 11, 2025 at 2:06 AM
We're excited to share the publication of a new @culanth.bsky.social blog series “Necessary but Never Sufficient: Rethinking Facts from Latin America” related to The Future of Facts Project by @aballes2.bsky.social @krether.bsky.social and @edenmedina.bsky.social
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Necessary but Never Sufficient: Rethinking Facts from Latin America
This collection is a reflection on the changing nature of facts, written by authors who do their thinking from Latin America. Conceived during a ...
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March 7, 2025 at 3:03 PM
This is a week from today!
Join us in two weeks for a talk by Dr. Lisa Messeri (Yale) on her new book, "In the Land of the Unreal: Virtual and Other Realities in Los Angeles" (Duke U Press, 2024). Taking place in-person on March 11, noon-1:30pm, at USC's Taper Hall (THH) 309K. @aballes2.bsky.social
March 4, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Join us in two weeks for a talk by Dr. Lisa Messeri (Yale) on her new book, "In the Land of the Unreal: Virtual and Other Realities in Los Angeles" (Duke U Press, 2024). Taking place in-person on March 11, noon-1:30pm, at USC's Taper Hall (THH) 309K. @aballes2.bsky.social
February 25, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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Reviewing is an art 🎨
As we will soon receive our assignments to #review for #AOM2025, we are refreshing our skills by watching Lisa Cohen's workshop on the subject and reading Audrey Holm's commentary ♥️

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The Art of Reviewing: Constructing Constructive Reviews
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January 13, 2025 at 3:03 PM
What happens when instead of always focusing on the results of ethnographic analysis, we stay curious about our modes of engagement with the myriad objects that populate fieldwork? In September we gathered to consider questions like this...
December 13, 2024 at 6:24 PM
We're pleased to announce the publication of a new thematic cluster in @tapuya.org: The Future of Facts in Latin America. Featuring 11 articles, a book review essay, afterword, and introduction by @aballes2.bsky.social @krether.bsky.social and @edenmedina.bsky.social sites.usc.edu/futureoffact...
Publications – Future of Facts in Latin America
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December 10, 2024 at 4:25 PM
Analytic moves are tactical decisions about how to make the intrinsic relation between the conceptual and the empiric spark. Read a protocol for IDing analytic moves that we developed this past semester, available on the open-access repository: www.protocols.io/view/identif...
Identifying Analytic Moves
When we are working through existing literature, the data/materials we collect or produce, and our own writing within the interpretive social sciences or humanities, there is a...
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July 7, 2024 at 11:11 PM
Curious how to bind your own book? This past semester we did a book-making workshop with Cardboard House Press, a collective working in the Cartonera tradition of book making that emerged from Latin America in the early 2000s. Check it out here! ethnographystudio.org/happenings/b...
July 2, 2024 at 12:45 AM
ICYMI: The recording of the Ethnographic Salon 2024 roundtable on * Shifting Matter(s), Slippery Maps * featuring @shannonmattern.bsky.social (University of Pennsylvania) and Annette Kim (USC) is up on our website! ethnographystudio.org/happenings/s...
Roundtable: Shifting Matter(s), Slippery Maps 2024 – Ethnography Studio
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June 19, 2024 at 11:39 PM
The Ethnography Studio is co-sponsoring a talk by Jeffrey Kahn (UC Davis) on Monday at noon at USC (Kap 445); if you're in LA, please join us!
April 3, 2024 at 8:28 PM
Happening on Monday at 3pm PT! It's not too late to register for the Zoom link. Join us to hear about mapping as a technical, political, and imaginative practice. How do we map phenomena, beings, and places that are in constant transformation?
In less than a week! -- Join us for the 8th annual Ethnographic Salon, "Shifting Matter(s), Slippery Maps," featuring Annette Kim (USC) and @shannonmattern.bsky.social (UPenn), hybrid roundtable on Monday March 4, 3p PT. Zoom registration: bit.ly/salon2024
March 1, 2024 at 8:36 PM