Friday, May 3 / 10:00 AM-3:00 PM Keynote Speaker: Tom Boellstorff (Anthropology, UC Irvine) McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB This workshop engages with the media forms that ethnographic products take (e.g., video, text) and, more broadly, mediation -- its production, consumption, circulation -- as part of socio-cultural life....
Friday, February 8 / 12:00 PM IHC Research Seminar Room, 6056 HSSB Please join us for the third meeting of the Ethnography and Cultural Studies Research Focus Group, with roundtable presentations on the theme "Radical Politics." Sponsored by the IHC's Ethnography and Cultural Studies RFG....
Thursday, October 11 / 5:00 PM HSSB 2001A Please join us to launch a new RFG on Ethnography and Cultural Studies. All interested graduate students and faculty are welcome to an open meeting to discuss RFG goals and activities for the coming year. Refreshments will be served!...
Joshua Pilzer (Music, University of Toronto) Tuesday, October 9 / 5:00 PM IHC Research Seminar Room, HSSB 6056 During the long era of public secrecy about Japanese military sexual slavery, Korean survivors made use of veiled expressive forms such as song to reckon with their experiences and forge...
Conveners Mary Hancock, Anthropology and History hancock@anth.ucsb.edu David Novak, Music dnovak@music.ucsb.edu The Research Focus Group in Ethnography and Cultural Studies aims to take stock of the ways that ethnographic practice has diversified in response to the challenges of contemporary culture. Our central questions are these: How does contemporary ethnography work?...