The schedule for the spring workshop is here!
The Moment of Engagement
A CoLED Workshop at UCSD June 9-10, 2016
Thursday, June 9th
The Thursday workshop will take place at Martin Johnson House
a UCSD venue on the cliffs at the Scripps Institute for Oceanography
What goes on at a CoLED workshop?
Yelena Gluzman (UC San Diego) reflects on the March workshop at UC Davis in a post on the Society for Social Studies of Science website’s Backchannels blog. Recalling a segment of the workshop led by Joe Dumit, she writes:
In one exercise, each of us was instructed to secretly select two people in the group. Without revealing who they were, we had to keep the first person to our right, and the second person to our left. Following these rules instantly put the entire group into movement, first at a walk, and then accelerating (despite ourselves) to a run, with group members veering as they tried to maintain their position in relation to their chosen two.
In another exercise, the groups received a different score. Small groups were sent outside with the instruction to find an object and bring it back to present to everyone. Upon returning, workshop organizers prompted participants to write down everything we recalled about the expedition other than the object we chose.
In both cases, the scores were ways to attune to the process of observation without separating ourselves as observers from the emergent action in which we were embedded. Instead of bracketing the embodied and situated condition of participant-observation, these scores highlighted ways in which embodied experience could be available as part of a research object.
Read more – and see photos – here.
Congratulations to the Davis team on putting this together.
Schedule for Ethnography Post-Writing: A CoLED Workshop
FRIDAY, March 11th (Putah Creek Lodge; Parking Instructions)
10:00 am – 1:00 pm
I. “Theatrical devising”
(Cristiana Giordano, Department of Anthropology, UCD and Alvaro Hernández & Regina Gutiérrez, Department of Performance Studies, UCD)
This workshop is an exploration of and a cross pollination between research and narrative practices in theater and anthropology. By creating a dialogue between these disciplines in a laboratory format, we hope to pose questions and engage techniques in ways that will enrich our engagement with anthropological questions and performative productions. We will practice embodiment as a practice to slow down thinking and to create a space for new encounters with our ethnographic material. Or, rather, we will practice thinking with the body, and embodying with and through words. (more…)
By Katie Cox, Connie McGuire, Michael Montoya
** This is the second post in a series in which scholars and practitioners reflect on ethnography and innovation, with a particular focus on the University of California System.**
This blog post springs from a collective at UC-Irvine called the Community Knowledge Project (CKP), an initiative in the CoLED network. CKP seeks to create collaborative spaces to reimagine the world, how to know it, and how to heal it. This post is a reflection on the CoLED workshop held at UC-Irvine in October of 2015.
As part of CoLED’s fall workshop at UC Irvine, CKP proposed an encounter between workshop participants and the UCI Farm. UCI Social Sciences founded the short-lived Farm project in 1968 as an experimental enterprise in ethnographic knowledge-making. Using a reading practice called Feminist Theory Theatre (FTT), developed by graduate students at UC San Diego, CoLEDers staged improvised performances based on texts and archival media about the Farm.
The next workshop will be held at UC Davis on March 11th and 12th, 2016. Organizers will be in touch with CoLED members in early 2016.
CoLED hosted its second workshop for our network of ethnographers and innovators in the UC system at UC Irvine in October.
Collaboration, discussion, disagreement and challenges, shenaningans, and at least one leopard-person-in-a-tree spotting ensued…
View the narrative slideshow about the Formal Play workshop here.
