Events

 

Patchwork Ethnography Winter School and Book Launch, December 14-18, 2026, Paris

Applications for December 2026 are now closed.

We will be launching Patchwork Ethnography: A Methodological Guide during the Patchwork Ethnography Winter School at Rice University’s Rice Global Paris Center between December 14-18, 2026. The winter school will be an opportunity for us to share the exercises that comprise the five chapters of the book with 10 PhD students from around the world. Over five days, we will explore new strategies for ethnographic training that acknowledge the ways researchers’ personal lives shape knowledge production.

Please contact us at patchworkethnography@gmail.com if you have any questions.

Upcoming Events

2027

  • Book Launch: Patchwork Ethnography Book Launch, Rice University, Houston, TX (5 February)

2026

  • Book Launch: Patchwork Ethnography Book Launch, Rice Global Paris Center (17 December)

  • Panel: Patchwork Ethnography: Book Panel, AAA Annual Meeting, St Louis, MO (18-22 November)

  • Student Retreat: Patchwork Ethnography Graduate Student Retreat, University of Copenhagen (5 October)

  • Workshop: Patchwork Ethnography Workshop, “Ethnography in Critical Times,” Glasscock Center for Humanities Research, Texas A&M, College Station (25 September)

Past Events

2026

  • Master Class: University of Queensland, Social Sciences, Brisbane (19 August)

  • Master Class: University of Sydney, Department of Anthropology, Sydney (13 August)

  • Master Class: Monash University, Melbourne (11 August)

  • Roundtable: “Patchwork Ethnography: A Methodological Guide,” Lightning Panel – EASA, Poznan, Poland (22 July)

  • Plenary Roundtable: "Afterlives of Fragments: (Un)Making across Anthropology, Archaeology, Art and Architecture" – Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH), University of Cambridge (16 May)

  • Keynote: "Off the Beaten Path: Atypical Research Approaches and Methodologies" – PGR Conference, Queen’s University Belfast (15 May)

  • Workshop: “Patchwork Ethnography” – Ecologies of War Workshop, UC Irvine (23-26 April)

  • Keynote: “Patchwork Ethnography: a Methodological Guide” – Scottish Programme of Advanced Training for Social Anthropology PhD Students, The Burn (20–23 April)

  • Talk: “Patchwork Ethnography: a Methodological Guide” – Institute of European Ethnology at Humboldt University Berlin (2 February)

2025

  • Talk: "Patchwork Ethnography" – Japan Association of Social Anthropologists (19 September)

2023

  • Plenary Roundtable: "Methods for an Unwell World" – Association of Social Anthropologists (ASA) Annual Conference (11–14 April)

  • Talk: "Playfulness and Patchwork Ethnography: Holding the Present in Disaster Preparedness and Anthropology" – Association of Social Anthropologists (ASA) Conference (11–14 April)

  • Talk: "Patchwork Ethnography" – German Institute of Japanese Studies (DIJ), Methods Talk (30 March)

  • Workshop: "Always Already Patchwork: Rewriting our Ethnographic Histories" – Changing Repro-Ethnographies: Mobility and Translation in the Anthropology of Reproduction, Wenner-Gren Workshop (23–24 March)

  • Roundtable: "Patchwork Ethnography, Elusive Archives, and the Burdens of Risk and Care" – Association for Asian Studies (AAS) Annual Conference, Online (17 February)

  • Talk: "Patchwork Ethnography" – Northwestern University, Qatar Campus (24–26 January)

  • Talk: "Patchwork Ethnography" – ETH Zurich D-ARCH Colloquium on Sociology and Urban Studies, ETH Zurich (10 January)

2022

  • Roundtable: "Patchwork, distributed, and protracted data sets" – University College London (23 November)

  • Talk: "Patchwork Ethnography" – Department of Anthropology, University of Edinburgh (28 October)

  • Talk: "Patchwork Ethnography" – Centre for Criminology, Oxford University (23 June)

  • Talk: "Patchwork Ethnography" – Digital Research Beyond Pandemic Times Lecture Series, Humboldt University Berlin (17 June)

2021

  • Workshop: "Patchwork Ethnography" – Funded by the Wenner-Gren Foundation (8–11 December)

  • Workshop: "Brainstorming Patchwork Ethnography" – Research Methods e-Festival, University of Manchester (27 October)

  • Webinar: "Patchwork Ethnography" – Funded by the Wenner-Gren Foundation (24–25 June)

  • Workshop: “Patchwork Ethnography” – Éthique d'une anthropologie du proche en Europe contemporaine,” the IACCHOS Institute and the Chair in Anthropology of Contemporary Europe, Université Catholique de Louvain (11 June)

  • Talk: “Patchwork Ethnography: Bringing to Light Our Intersecting Responsibilities” – Fielding the Field, Universität Bayreuth (21 May)

  • Talk: “Patchwork Ethnography” – (Post)Covid Research Methods: Thinking Innovatively about Transoceanic Studies, UC-Pacific Worlds Collaborative (1 April)

  • Talk: "Reflecting on field research pre- and post-COVID: Patchwork ethnography as a way forward" – Fieldwork from Home Series, Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR), University of Amsterdam (29 March)

  • Workshop: “Patchwork Ethnography” – Funded by the Wenner-Gren Foundation (4 February)

2020