Conferences
The New Ethnographer hosts panels, labs and roundtables at conferences around Europe, the Middle East, the USA and Australia. If you would like to host a TNE panel, or spread word at a conference we don't know about, please get in touch. Check out our upcoming and past events below.
European Association of Social Anthropologists Biennial Conference 2020
The LSE Digital Ethnography Collective x The New Ethnographer: Twitter for anthropologists
An interactive workshop in collaboration with @DigEthnogLSE to familiarise anthropologists with the myriad uses of Twitter. We will look at how the platform can be used for networking, research, and public communication. The lab will provide an introduction to Twitter, how anthropologists can harness social media as a fieldsite and for fieldnotes, and as a networking tool.
Suitable for beginners or those familiar with Twitter. Follow live on Twitter using #TNELive on July 21, 11am BST.
European Association of Social Anthropologists Biennial Conference 2020
This panel addresses the body and the mind of the ethnographer, as the site of a diverse convergence of experiences during fieldwork. Although it has been acknowledged in anthropology that our bodies are our tools of research, the impact of this reality on our bodies is under-explored. Researchers’ attempts to talk about their challenging fieldwork experiences are often silenced or dismissed as being the result of bad or unethical practice on the part of the researcher. Acknowledging that similar protocols would struggle to capture the complexities of ethnographic research, this panel opens a space to counter the current institutional silence on this subject.
American Anthropological Association Annual Conference 2019
In this roundtable, we explore how the relationship among fieldworks have developed over time and can potentially change over time for more effective communication and better fieldwork experience through building on negotiations, reciprocity, mutual trust, and efficient collaboration. We explore perpetuating and arising issues around safety, harassment, ethics, and mental and physical health and wellbeing of ethnographers. The aim of this roundtable is to provide with opportunities to discuss how anthropologists can envision and conduct more compassionate research practice for both themselves and the communities we work with.
British Society for Middle Eastern Studies Annual Conference 2019
This panel, entitled ‘Towards A New Ethnography I: Researcher Ethics, Positionality and Security in the Post-2011 Middle East’ asks its participants and audience to consider the unique challenges ethnographers working in the modern Middle East face. We then ask for reflections, opinions, and collective thinking on how institutions can better support us in our work on these regions, and in turn how we can work compassionately and sensitively with local communities.
Association of Social Anthropologists Annual Conference 2019
This panel addresses the body and the mind of the ethnographer, as the site of a diverse convergence of experiences during fieldwork. Although it has been acknowledged in anthropology that our bodies are our tools of research, the impact of this reality on our bodies is under-explored. Building on existing research into the ubiquity of fieldwork challenges (Pollard 2009) and the importance of treating such experiences and emotions with intellectual rigour (Davies and Spencer 2010), this panel asks how our institutions and professional associations could better support researchers experiencing challenges in the field.
Association of Social Anthropologists Annual Conference 2018
This panel addresses the body and the mind of the ethnographer, as the site of a diverse convergence of experiences during fieldwork. As multiple layers of violence dominate the sites that many of us choose to study, ethnographers constantly negotiate relationships and positionalities in ways that can put them in danger. While international organisations often have protocols for staff working in difficult contexts, many universities do not. The staff of such organisations praise the freedom of anthropologists to work without security restrictions, and yet this has in many instances led to devastating consequences. Building on existing research into the ubiquity of fieldwork challenges (Pollard 2009) and the importance of treating such experiences and emotions with intellectual rigour (Davies and Spencer 2010), this panel asks how our institutions and professional associations could better support researchers experiencing challenges in the field.