Workshop on ethnography for arts and humanities research with Georgina Born
Department: Critical Theory at UCI
Date and Time: May 16, 2016 | 1:00 PM-3:00 PMEvent Location: HG 1002 (please note room change)
Event Details
Ethnographic research has become one of the most fashionable research methods in the humanities and social sciences. But it is also misunderstood. In this workshop we look at a number of central issues in ethnographic research, from theoretical, epistemological and ethical questions to practical challenges to do with how to go about ethnographic fieldwork. We consider: what does it mean to carry out ethnographic research? How can it be done rigorously? How can it be defended against accusations that it is an entirely subjective engagement with the object of research? Is reflexivity a panacea for such criticisms?
This workshop is aimed at students in the humanities and the arts who would like to integrate ethnographic methods into their research and creative activities.
Lunch provided (vegetarian and non-vegetarian options). RSVP here.
Article by G. Born on ethnography of culture (recommended reading)
Georgina Born is an anthropologist and musician who uses ethnography to study cultural production, particularly music, television and information technologies, and is a leading exponent both of institutional ethnography and of anthropology’s application to the critical study of Western modernity. In relation to music, television and IT her work has ranged from studies of cultural production and cultural politics, to intellectual property, authorship and subjectivity, to materiality, technology and mediation. She is an international authority on computer music and musical modernism in the twentieth century, and also on contemporary media policy, the BBC and public service broadcasting in the United Kingdom and Europe.
Workshop co-sponsored by the Center for Ethnography. Second lecture is part of the 50th Anniversary Arts and Humanities Symposium, Creativity, Cognition, Critique, sponsored by the Office of the Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor, the School of the Humanities, and the Claire Trevor School of the Arts, with special participation from the Depatment of Music.