Ethnography Talks - University of St.Gallen

Program Autumn Term 2025

We organise an ethnography seminar series under the name of Critical Ethnography Collective. For more information, please contact Jelena Tosic or Paula Bialski. Past and current speakers include:

Sabine Strasser (Bern): Producing Intimate Knowledge: Ethnographic research, activism and friendship in times of uncertainties (December 2021)
Götz Bachmann (Bremen), Jessica R. Greenberg (Illinois) and Nishant Shah (ArtEZ): Teaching in Crisis Times: a Roundtable Discussion (February 2022)
Insa Koch (HSG): Why Ethnography Matters: On Modern Slavery, Advocacy and Postcolonial Legacies in Contemporary Britain (March 2022)
Gabriella Coleman (Harvard): How Anonymous Dodged the Cyber-terrorism Bullet (Postponed to Fall 2022)
Ellen Wiles (Exeter): Literary Ethnography: Possibilities for Creative Writing (May 2022).
Antje Scharenberg (HSG), Militant ethnography: negotiating the epistemic politics of engaged research (September 2022)
Roundtable "Ethnographies of Deservingness": Susana Narotzky (University of Barcelona), Erik Bähre (Leiden University), Sabine Strasser (University of Bern) Chair: Ins Koch (HSG) Organisation: Jelena Tosic and Andreas Streinzer (HSG) (October 2022)
Maja Hojer Bruun (Aarhus), Why Ethnography Matters: Engaging publics in emerging technologies through experimental ethnographic interventions (November 2022)
Rita Kesselring (HSG), Symmetrical ethnography in an asymmetrical world? (December 2022)
Mareike Winchell (University of Chicago) and Mark Goodale (University of Lausanne), Grounding Energy: Materiality, Extraction, and the Allure of Potentiality in Bolivia (March 2023)
Deborah James (LSE), Redistribution or Debt? Rechannelling Financial Flows (April 2023)
Kathrin Eitel (University of Zurich), Feminist speculations and interventions: Potentials to transgress prevailing epistemic regimes (Mai 2023)
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Historische Ethnographie, eine Kritische Untersuchung des Zusammenspiels von Anthropologie und Geschichte, Marta Dominguez Diaz, Universität St.Gallen) (November 2024)
Dekolonialität: Praktiken und Ethik der Wissensproduktion (Runder Tisch mit Serena Dankaw (Universität Basel), Mukuka Kasonde (Unversity of Huddersfield), Felicia Afriyie (Universität St.Gallen) Moderation: Rita Kesselring (Universität St.Gallen) (Dezember 2024)
Did Columbus Jump-Start the Climate Crisis? Interdisciplinary Approaches from Anthropology to Literature, Tao Leigh Goffe (Hunter College, CUNY) (Februar 2025)
Book launch - Extraction, Global Commodity Trade, and Urban Development in Zambia's Northwestern Province: An Ethnography of Inequality and Interdependence, Aurora GarcÍa (Solifonds, Zürich), Prof. Judith Beyer (University of Konstanz), Prof. Rita Kesselring (University of St. Gallen) (März 2025)