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IAS Early Career Network: 'Notes from the Field' Conference

18 November 2024, 10:00 am–3:00 pm

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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

Prof. Jakob Stougaard-Nielsen

Location

IAS Common Ground (G11)
ground floor, South Wing, Wilkins Building
UCL, Gower St, London
WC1E 6BT
United 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.