Explore this semester’s theme “Cripping ethnographic methods: exploring anti-ableist potentials of multimodal anthropology” and save the dates!
The Stadtlabor’s upcoming Winter Series 25/26 ‘Cripping ethnographic methods: exploring anti-ableist potentials of multimodal anthropology’ is an exercise in rethinking how ethnographic research can be done by centering disablement/debility as a lived experience, knowledge system and political standpoint of disabled researchers themselves. The series will challenge ableist norms in academic knowledge production, research practices and participation by sharing experiences, experiments and models in multimodal anthropology and beyond.
The Series will feature the following events:
– ENABLING ETHNOGRAPHY: Crafting Anti-Ableist Fieldwork Methods by Erin Durban. 20th October 2025. 4pm-6pm.
– TOWARDS A QUIET ETHNOGRAPHY: deafness and methodology by Julia Sauma. 1st December 2025. 4pm-6pm.
– ABCs OF CITIZEN SOCIAL SCIENCE AS SELF-ADVOCACY FOR LESS-LISTENED-TO PEOPLE by Kelly Fagan Robinson, 5th January 2026. 4pm-6pm.
– PATCHWORK ETHNOGRAPHY: a Methodological Guide by Chika Watanabe. 2nd February 2026. 4pm-6pm.
Location
All events will take place at the Institute for European Ethnology (IfEE).
Anton-Wilhelm-Amo-Str. 40-41,
10117 Berlin
Room 408
Time: 4pm-6pm.
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.
Participation in the individual events will also be possible from home. For hybrid access to the individual events, please always follow this link:
https://hu-berlin.zoom-x.de/j/68497491247?pwd=YVjoEFoH3ga1066eRFDwdXWGn3UskR.1
Please circulate amongst who you think might be interested. Everybody is welcome! Save the dates.
