CfP – Urban Ethnography Lab

July 21, 2021July 21, 2021

Call for Book Proposals | Berghahn Book Series “Urban Anthropology Unbound”

We are currently seeking proposals for the new Berghahn Book Series “Urban Anthropology Unbound“ Urban spaces are centers for human and non-human activity, and agents entangled in networks both material and immaterial, real and imagined. Urban Anthropology Unbound unpacks the usual assumptions of an anthropology of urban life and how to understand past, present, and…

March 22, 2018July 18, 2018

BEYOND URBAN TRANSFORMATION KOSMOS Workshop 2018

CfP | CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS The workshop brings together senior and junior scholars from urban anthropology, human geography and design to collaborate on researching how urban transformation can be studied ethnographically from the perspective of urban everyday practice along the topics of urban commons and resilience. The KOSMOS Workshop is funded by the Excellence Initiative by Humboldt-University of Berlin and hosted at Georg-Simmel…

The Urban Ethnography Lab is an initiative by scholars from the Humboldt University’s Georg Simmel Center for Metropolitan Studies, the Institute for Contemporary Design Practices HGK in Basel, the Department of Social and Cultural Geography from Humboldt-University of Berlin and University of Toronto’s Ethnography Lab.

As one of the Urban Research Groups at the Georg-Simmel Center for Metropolitan Studies the Urban Ethnography Lab is a growing centre that promotes ethnographic research methods in the interdisciplinary section of urban studies.