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.”

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...

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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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”.

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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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

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

Along with colleagues from Fixing Futures (Goethe University) and the Labyrinth Project (UCLA), we thought together about "transitional devices" encountered by ethnographers. Find a recap of the event here: ethnographystudio.org/happenings/m... @aballes2.bsky.social

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...

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!

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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

We are so excited to share the details for our 8th annual Ethnographic Salon, featuring Annette Kim (USC) and Shannon Mattern (UPenn). Join us on March 4, 3p PT for a roundtable on "shifting matter(s), slippery maps," which will follow our student workshop that morning. @aballes2.bsky.social

Join the Ethnography Studio for a casual coffee hour at the AAAs! All are welcome. Friday Nov 17 3:30-4:30; we'll be gathering at the tables/chairs outside TMCC-713 / South Cafe.