Events

Featured Past Events

This Country: Searching for Home in (Very) Rural America

The Centre for Ethnography will be hosting a reading and conversation with the author of the graphic novel This Country: Searching for Home in (Very) Rural America.

This Country is a funny, personal and politically informed, story about the author and his wife moving from San Francisco to rural Idaho during the Trump years. The narrative moves beyond simple stereotypes and reveals both unlikely friendships, shifting understandings of home and land, as well as sometimes awkward and difficult relations.

Dr. Lila Abu-Lughod, a woman with white hair and glasses smiling

The UTSC Centre for Ethnography Annual Distinguished Lecture, 2022

Dr. Lila Abu-Lughod, (Columbia University)

"Acknowledgements of an Anthropologist"

Hadia Akhtar Khan - Family Values: Fusions and Fissions in Kinship and Capital in Rural Pakistan

Hadia Akhtar Khan is a PhD Candidate in Anthropology at the University of Toronto. Her doctoral research investigates how transnational householding is reshaping kinship and gender relations within the context of economic restructuring in rural Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.

Laura Beach - Doing Time: Chronocentricity, Cyclicality, and the Foreclosure of Futurity in Canadian Corrections

Laura Beach is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Toronto. They are a broadly trained scholar with expertise in the areas of criminalization, incarceration, mental health/illness, regimes of care, humanitarianism, settler-colonialism, gender and sexuality, and queer theory.

J. Alonso Gamarra - Learning how to Live: Food, Belonging, and Pursuing Change in Neoliberal Peru

J. Alonso Gamarra is a PhD candidate in Anthropology Department at McGill University. His research explores the relationship between food and belonging in neoliberal Peru. Through an experience-near engagement with the everyday lives of farmers, market workers and activists, Alonso’s dissertation describes how local foodways and cultivation techniques give life form in social worlds affected by one of Peru’s major eco-territorial conflicts.

Beauty and the Beast: Political Logic and the Limits of Tolerance in the Refashioning of Old Bangkok

The UTSC Centre for Ethnography is pleased to present:

Michael Herzfeld is Ernest E. Monrad Research Professor of the Social Sciences, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University; IIAS Professor of Critical Heritage Studies Emeritus, Leiden University; Chang Jiang Scholar/Visiting Professor, Shanghai International Studies University; and Professorial Fellow, Faculty of Humanities, University of Melbourne

Slavery in the Heart of Freedom: Race, Religion, and Politics through the lens of BDSM - Colloquium by The Centre of Ethnography

J. Lorand Matory, Duke University