Fwd: Join us tomorrow for the Ethnography Coffee Hour + other lab updates

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From: Elise Ferrer <ef8...@american.edu>
Date: Tue, Jul 15, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Subject: Join us tomorrow for the Ethnography Coffee Hour + other lab updates
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Cc: Thurka Sangaramoorthy <thu...@american.edu>

Join us tomorrow for the

July Ethnography Coffee Hour

Hosted by the Public Ethnography Lab

📅 Wednesday, July 16, 2025 from 9:00am - 10:30am

📍 Hamilton Building, Room 109, American University (Department of Anthropology)

🧭 Advice for directions and transportation provided below

📩 RSVP Encouraged - Click here

➕ Learn about upcoming lab events and new publications

Monthly, mid-week gathering for ethnographic scholars, practitioners, or curious novices to connect over complimentary coffee and small breakfast bite

You’re warmly invited to join the Public Ethnography Lab for our second Ethnography Coffee Hour, hosted tomorrow, Wednesday, July 16 from 9-10:30am in the AU Hamilton Building. Our goal with Ethnography Coffee Hour is to create a dedicated and routine space for ethnographic scholars, practitioners, research collaborators, or curious novices to connect over complimentary coffee and light breakfast bites. We hope that attendees will catch up with colleagues, make new connections, discuss and get feedback on their ongoing projects, and learn about upcoming opportunities. Attendees are free to come and go as they need and are welcome to co-work in the lab space until 3pm tomorrow afternoon. To help us with our coffee and food order, please RSVP!

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Can’t make tomorrow’s coffee hour? Save the date for our August gathering!
Wednesday, August 13, 9:00-10:30 AM • RSVP & Get Reminders

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Directions & Transportation

The coffee hour is hosted in the Hamilton Building on the American University campus. (Marked in the purple box in the image above.) To access the building:

• If you are driving: Parking is available in all places marked in yellow. The yellow boxes are on-campus lots. The yellow lines are public street parking.
• If you are taking public transit:
• The nearest metro stop is the Tenleytown / AU stop on the red line. Take the station exit “East side of Wisconsin Ave. NW, north of Albemarle Street.” The AU Shuttle (Blue bus) picks up right outside of the Wawa at the bus stop and has a stop very close to the Hamilton building. (See the Blue box on the map). The blue bus runs about every 10 minutes.
• With the new DC bus network, there are still bus routes that navigate to or near campus. Please use your transit planning app for best information on the new stops.
• If you bike:
• We have a bike dock outside of the building.
• There are two Capital Bikeshare docks within a 5-minute walk of the building.

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Upcoming Lab Events & Updates

Events:

• Tuesday, July 22 • 6-7:30pm
  Anthropology Summer Salon #3, Understanding Life & Power in D.C. 
  Georgetown Neighborhood Library
  
  
• Tuesday, August 5 • 6-7:30pm
  Anthropology Summer Salon #4, Green Promise or Paradox?: The Histories, Realities, and Struggles of Environmental Intervention 
  Georgetown Neighborhood Library
  
  
• Wednesday, August 13 • 9-10am
  August Ethnography Coffee Hour
  Hamilton Building, American University

In case you missed it...

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• We launched a podcast! In our podcast, In the Thick of It, where we explore and highlight possible trajectories for anthropological, ethnographic, and qualitative work beyond purely academic roles. In each episode, our host, Eva Rey, sits down with one researcher to understand how they approach and deploy qualitative methods in their day-to-day work. Our first episode is out now, and listen wherever you get your podcasts: Lab Website • Apple Podcasts • Spotify • iHeartRadio • Amazon Music • Player FM
  
  
• Our lab founder, Thurka Sangaramoorthy, just published a new, public-facing article. This article is the 1st in a six-part series with Barn Raiser, an outlet that supports critical writing on and within rural communities. The series translates the concepts first published in her 2023 book, Landscapes of Care, for a broader, public audience at a time when better understandings of immigrant realities are as urgent as ever. Access the article here. 

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