IAS Early Career Network: 'Notes from the Field' Conference
18 November 2024, 10:00 am–3:00 pm
We are inviting postgraduate students and postdocs across disciplines to discuss methods, approaches, experiences and writing related to the process of ethnographic fieldwork in the UK and beyond.
This event is free.
Event Information
Open to
- All
Availability
- Yes
Cost
- Free
Organiser
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Prof. Jakob Stougaard-Nielsen
Location
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IAS Common Ground (G11)ground floor, South Wing, Wilkins BuildingUCL, Gower St, LondonWC1E 6BTUnited Kingdom
The organising committee - Sarojini Sapru and Tyler Valiquette (both PhD Candidates in Human Geography) - and the IAS are happy to announce the inaugural conference ‘Doing Ethnography: Notes from the Field’.
The conference aims to facilitate a discussion of methods, approaches, experiences and writing relating to the process of ethnographic fieldwork (broadly defined) in the UK and beyond and hopes to provide a venue for interventions into ongoing debates and discussions on ethnographic methods in its various manifestations; such as questions of care and collaboration, creative outputs, multimodal practices, ethical considerations of doing fieldwork, returning from the field and so on.
PROGRAMME
9:20 - 9:50
Coffee and Registration
9:50 - 10:00
Opening Remarks
10:00 - 11:20
Panel 1
Chair: Allegra Ayida, PhD candidate in History, Yale University
Mattie Cox, LSE Geography and Environment
Fixing Fluidity: the Aesthetics, Temporalities and Silences in/of Ethnography. Notes from a Mozambican Locality
Amandas Ong, UCL Anthropology
Sharing Lifeworlds: Co-authoring Ethnography with Asylum-seeking Women in the UK
Leah Aaron, UCL Bartlett School of Planning:
Translating the ‘WG’ in ‘wg-gesucht.de’: Reflections on Doing Digital Ethnography in Diglossic Contexts
Cyrine Saab, UCL Institute of Education
The Walking-and-Talking Method: an Adaptive Approach for Research with the Street Children of Beirut
Sarah Ferner, UCL Arts and Sciences
Young British Jews and Muslims Thinking and Speaking about Israel and Palestine
11:30 - 12:45
Panel 2
Chair: TBC
Mamoon Bhuyan, Brunel University
The Institution and the Vulnerable: Positionality and Ethical Research in the Borderland State of Assam
Tyler Valiquette, UCL Geography
Inside Out – Re-examining Positionality in Research with LGBTQI+ Refugees and Migrants
Susan Qu, University of Cambridge
Stories Behind the Statistics: Ethnographic Research with Migrants
Hasret Saygi, UCL Institute of Education, Department of Culture Communication and Media
Activist Academic Research in Turkiye’s Forced Migration Discourse
12:45 - 1:45
LUNCH BREAK
** Lunch will not be provided**
1:45 - 3:05
Panel 3
Chair: Julia Dobson, UCL Institute of Education
G Ali Shair, University of Warwick Sociology:
Reverse Ethnography: Being a Diasporic Ethnographer in a Post-industrial English Heritage Town
Helene Schulze, UCL Geography
Urban Seed Systems: Working with Seasonality, Slowness and Care
Stany Babu, Sheffield Hallam University, Architecture department
Madam, Mol, Perakutty, Comrade: Care and the Continuously Shifting Roles on the Field
Sarojini Sapru, UCL Geography
I’m Coming Home: Doing Fieldwork in Familiar Contexts
Sakshi Sharda, SOAS Department of Law
An Ethnographic Study of Emotions in Family Courtrooms: a Case Study of Punjab and Haryana
3:05 - 3:30
Social
Participation in the conference is free. Please note that there is no allowance available for travel and other costs.
If you have any questions please contact the organisers, Sarojini Sapru (sarojini.sapru.22@ucl.ac.uk) and Tyler Valiquette (tyler.valiquette.22@ucl.ac.uk).
Interested in more events like this for Early Career Researchers? Register for the IAS Early Career Network Newsletter here and find more information about the Network here.