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The Ethnography Studio @ethnographystudio.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

If you are in the L.A. area, reminder to RSVP by October 1st for our upcoming book event with Dr. Timothy Neale! bit.ly/ESNeale

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The Ethnography Studio @ethnographystudio.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

If you are in the LA area, please join us for our first event of the academic year! We are thrilled to be hosting Dr. Timothy Neale to speak about his new book “How to Control Fire on a Burning Continent”. To RSVP and find out more information use this link: ethnographystudio.org/how-to-contr...

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The Ethnography Studio @ethnographystudio.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Interested in hearing about our upcoming events? Sign up for our newsletter by following this link bit.ly/ethnostudio

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The Ethnography Studio @ethnographystudio.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

On March 23rd we are welcoming Dr. Marcos Lopes Campos (Brazilian Center for Analysis and Planning, CEBRAP) for a “Work in Progress” session on his paper Infrastructural Aporia: data politics and temporal governance in the metropolitan train system in Rio de Janeiro.

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The Ethnography Studio @ethnographystudio.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

We look forward to hosting Dr. Paige West on USC campus this Wednesday! This will be a space for exploring with Dr. West the sustained joys and challenges of working ethnographically with family.

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The Ethnography Studio @ethnographystudio.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

The 2026 Studio Days, hosted by the Ethnography Studio brings ethnographers together for a series of hands-on sessions focused on ethnographic engagement with “models”.

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The Ethnography Studio @ethnographystudio.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

During the American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, held in New Orleans, Louisiana, the Ethnography Studio and the architecture firm Multistudio hosted a collaborative workshop to think about the relationship between property and materiality.

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The Ethnography Studio @ethnographystudio.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

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.

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The Ethnography Studio @ethnographystudio.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

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.

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The Ethnography Studio @ethnographystudio.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

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.”

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The Ethnography Studio @ethnographystudio.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

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...

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The Ethnography Studio @ethnographystudio.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

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...

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The Ethnography Studio @ethnographystudio.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

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. ethnographystudio.org/happenings/b...

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The Ethnography Studio @ethnographystudio.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

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”.

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The Ethnography Studio @ethnographystudio.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

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.

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The Ethnography Studio @ethnographystudio.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

This is happening tomorrow (April 11) at 3pm PT! Please join us.

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The Ethnography Studio @ethnographystudio.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

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

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The Ethnography Atelier @ethnoat.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

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

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The Ethnography Atelier @ethnoat.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

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/...

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The Ethnography Studio @ethnographystudio.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Join us tomorrow for this talk with Dr. Lisa Messeri!

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The Ethnography Studio @ethnographystudio.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

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

Promotional poster with a pixelated pink and purple background, a blown-up portion of the image on the cover of "In the Land of the Unreal," book by Lisa Messeri.

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The Ethnography Atelier @ethnoat.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

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 ♥️ 📼 www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmBA... 🖋️ www.ethnographyatelier.org/post/behind-...

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The Art of Reviewing: Constructing Constructive Reviews

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The Ethnography Studio @ethnographystudio.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

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...

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The Ethnography Studio @ethnographystudio.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

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...

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Publications – Future of Facts in Latin America

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The Ethnography Studio @ethnographystudio.bsky.social · 08/07/2024

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...

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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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The Ethnography Studio @ethnographystudio.bsky.social · 02/07/2024

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...

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The Ethnography Studio @ethnographystudio.bsky.social · 20/06/2024

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...

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Roundtable: Shifting Matter(s), Slippery Maps 2024 – Ethnography Studio

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The Ethnography Studio @ethnographystudio.bsky.social · 03/04/2024

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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The Ethnography Studio @ethnographystudio.bsky.social · 01/03/2024

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?

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The Ethnography Studio @ethnographystudio.bsky.social · 27/02/2024

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

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Lisa Messeri @lmesseri.bsky.social · 27/02/2024

Leading up to the official pub day for "In the Land of the Unreal" (March 8), a few teasers. Let's start with the fact that it is just a beautiful book thanks to the design of Matthew Tauch @dukepress.bsky.social 1/5

cover of "In the land of the unreal" depicting a person wearing a VR headset, looking up at an angle and pink palm trees in the background

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The Ethnography Studio @ethnographystudio.bsky.social · 15/02/2024

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

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The Ethnography Studio @ethnographystudio.bsky.social · 16/11/2023

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.

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The Ethnography Studio @ethnographystudio.bsky.social · 03/11/2023

The Studio is co-sponsoring two hybrid events next Wed and Thur on forensic architecture in Latin America. If you're interested in spatial studies, histories of violence, and data visualization, find more info and how to register for the Zoom links here: ethnographystudio.org/happenings/g...

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The Ethnography Studio @ethnographystudio.bsky.social · 02/11/2023

If you'll be in Toronto for the AAAs, we warmly invite you to our Friends of the Ethnography Studio Coffee Hour, Fri 11/17 3:30-4:30pm. Come for the whole time or a few min; both old friends as well as folks completely new to the Studio, or curious about what we do, are welcome. Location TBD.

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The Ethnography Studio @ethnographystudio.bsky.social · 11/09/2023

Stay tuned for our upcoming events! 🕺 You can also subscribe to our newsletter here: app.e2ma.net/app2/audienc....

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