We are delighted to announce our upcoming fourth and final installment for this year’s STADTLABOR FOR MULTIMODAL ANTHROPOLOGY: WINTER SERIES 2025-2026.
CRIPPING ETHNOGRAPHIC METHODS: EXPLORING ANTI-ABLEIST POTENTIALS OF MULTIMODAL ANTHROPOLOGY
Patchwork Ethnography: a Methodological Guide by Chika Watanabe. 2nd February 2026. 4pm-6pm.
Intersecting responsibilities at home, life conditions, institutional pressures, and geopolitical uncertainties make uninterrupted long-term fieldwork difficult for many ethnographers today. Patchwork Ethnography offers a new way to acknowledge and accommodate how researchers’ lives, in their full complexity, shape knowledge production. This talk is based on the forthcoming book, Patchwork Ethnography: a Methodological Guide (University of Chicago Press, 2026).
About Chika Watanabe
Chika Watanabe is a social anthropologist at the University of Manchester and studies disaster preparedness in Japan and Chile.
The event will take place at the Institute for European Ethnology (IfEE).
Anton-Wilhelm-Amo-Str. 40-41,
10117 Berlin
Room 408 from 4pm-6pm.
Participation in the event will also be possible from home. For hybrid access please follow this link:
https://hu-berlin.zoom-x.de/j/68497491247?pwd=YVjoEFoH3ga1066eRFDwdXWGn3UskR.1
Important: Please only make use of this link to join the session. Due to a technical error the provided QR-Code on the poster, unfortunately, does not work. We apologise for this.
Accessibility: the building and room 408 are accessible for wheelchairs via the ground floor and elevator. Presentations will be in English and access copies will be made available. If you need sign language interpretation or have other access requirements, please write to us: collectiveaccess.ifee@hu-berlin.de.
Please circulate amongst who you think might be interested. Everybody is welcome! Save the date.
