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.

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. ethnographystudio.org/happenings/b...

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”.

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.

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

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

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/...

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

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 culanth.org/fieldsights/...

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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

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-...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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!

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

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

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.

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...

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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