Embodiment and Research Workshop
Event Start Date: April 15, 2024 10:00 AM
Event End Date: April 15, 2024 4:00 PM
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Embodiment and Research Workshop
Monday, April 15 | 10:00 am - 4:00 pm
UF International Ethnography Lab
This semester the International Ethnography Lab has organized an all-day workshop on the relationship between embodiment and research. Dr. Laura Orrico from Temple University and Ecem Ece from UF will co-lead the workshop.
The workshop consists of two components. 10:00am-12:30pm will be organized as a MasterClass, with a heavier focus on theories and workshop leaders' own research and writing on this topic. Workshop leaders will also request questions from participants a few days in advance to discuss during this period. Lunch, from 12:30-1:30pm, will be provided. 1:30-4:00pm will be hands-on, with participants working to think about embodiment and their individual research. For this portion of the workshop participants will need to bring their own data or other writing to work on. The deadline to apply is April 1.
Description: How do researchers’ bodies shape the projects they design, the data they collect and analyze, and the claims they make? Why is it important to be aware of the relationship between the body and the research we produce? And how can attention to embodiment strengthen our research and writing? These are some of the questions that we will address in this all-day workshop. During the workshop participants will learn about different approaches to thinking about the relationship between (dis)embodiment and research and how to better incorporate the former into the latter. Some of the topics covered in the workshop include: feminist and queer methodologies, virtual ethnography, and the ethnography of everyday experience.
About Laura A. Orrico
Laura is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Temple University. Dr. Orrico uses qualitative and ethnographic methods to examine everyday experiences of precarity, particularly in the urban context. Her work pays close attention to the way ethnographic research takes shape across time and space, and she has published on the embodied experience of ethnographic research as a form of intimacy.
About Ecem Ece
Ecem Ece is a joint degree PhD/MA student in Sociology and Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies. In their current work, they focus on the spatio-temporal dynamics of violence and queer activism in Turkey, incorporating digital ethnography as one of their research methods. Their research interests also encompass queer migration, queer feminist spaces and geographies, as well as queer and feminist methodologies.
Email Unna Yared uyared@ufl.edu with any questions!
Sponsors
- Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies
- Department of Sociology and Criminology & Law
- Center for Latin American Studies
- Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere