REMINDER: Global Ethnography Workshop Deadline Approaching

[Berkeley-Stanford CityGroup]

Dear all,

Just a reminder that the deadline to attend the Global Ethnographies workshop is approaching.
Please send us your 1-page document by Monday April 23 (tomorrow) night if you're interested in attending.

Best,

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The Organizers
Berkeley-Stanford CityGroup

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From: Berkeley-Stanford CityGroup <berkeleystan...@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 9:37 AM
Subject: Global Ethnography Worskshop - May 10, 2012
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The Berkeley-Stanford CityGroup invites you to:

Global Ethnographies:
A Workshop on Methodology

With

James Ferguson (Stanford, Anthropology)
Ananya Roy (UC Berkeley, City and Regional Planning)
Anna Tsing (UC Santa Cruz, Anthropology)

Stanford University. May 10, 2012. 12-2pm. Cubberley E207. Lunch provided.


This workshop seeks to foster a discussion of global ethnography as a methodology. It seeks to address the following questions: what does it mean to do an ethnography of the global? And what do we mean by “the global”? Is it a scale of analysis, an epoch, an economic-cultural process of integration, an ongoing set of social projects or something else entirely? What are the different spatialities of the global and how are these enlisted in global ethnographies? What are the particular ethical practices and dilemmas that attend global ethnographies?

Rather than approach such questions in the abstract, this workshop will tackle them as methodological problems in the formation of dissertation projects. We invite doctoral students from any department at UC Berkeley and Stanford to submit a one page abstract of their dissertation research projects (max. 300 words) and to share 2-3 methodological questions, challenges, or provocations that they face in their research. These 1-page documents (abstract+questions) will be circulated to all workshop participants one week in advance and will form the basis for our 2-hour conversation. In light of the workshop themes, questions should highlight the ways in which research projects engage with “the global,” “the urban” and/or ethnography. Applicants to the workshop should include departmental affiliation, year in program, your pre/during/post ‘field’ status, and email address.

The workshop is open to 8-10 graduate students from UC Berkeley and Stanford University. Priority will be given to students about to leave for the ‘field’ or in the initial stages of writing a dissertation.
Deadline to send the 1-page documents (abstract+ 2/3 questions): April 23, 2012.

Please send it to: berkeleystan...@gmail.com
Selected students will be notified on May 4, 2012.


Organized by the Berkeley-Stanford CityGroup, with funds from UC Berkeley’s Global Metropolitan Studies, Stanford’s Anthropology Department and Townsend Center for the Humanities.

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The Organizers
Berkeley-Stanford CityGroup