Centre for Imaginative Ethnography (CIE) Symposium Invitation

[Magdalena Kazubowski-Houston]

Please distribute widely.

The Centre for Imaginative Ethnography (CIE) – an emerging 
cyber-collective – invites you to attend a two-day event, *April 10 and 
11, 2013, at York University*, curated by Magdalena Kazubowski-Houston, 
Dara Culhane, Denielle Elliott, Cristina Moretti,Laura Levin, and Marlis 
Schweitzer.

The event will include a Keynote Lecture by Dr. Andrew 
Irving**(University of Manchester), an introduction to and invitation to 
participate in building the CIE website (www.imaginativeethnography.org 
<http://www.imaginativeethnography.org>), and a symposium on Imaginative 
Ethnography.The symposium will bring together scholars, students and 
artists/scholars in reimagining what forms our ethnographic practices 
might take. The event aims to ask: What might imaginative ethnography 
do?Or, What could imaginative ethnography become? By bringing people 
together, we hope to initiate conversations that explore the 
experimental, collaborative, visual, textual, urban, spatial, poetic, 
political, performative, improvised, embodied, reflexive, kinetic, 
ethnographic, emergent, creative and imaginative in our shared 
scholarship and pedagogical practices.

The event is sponsored by the Performance Studies (Canada) Speaker 
Series, York’s Departments of Theatre and Anthropology, LA&PS Research 
Events and Outreach Fund, and the Ad Hoc Grant.

*_Wednesday April 10, 4:00pm – 5:30pm _*

*Andrew Irving Keynote *
*"The Art of Life and Death: Everyday Adventures in Contingency and 
Destiny"*

Location: Joseph G. Green Theatre, Centre for Film and Theatre, York 
University

Andrew Irving is Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology at the 
University of Manchester, and Editor of /Beyond Text: Critical Practices 
and Sensory Anthropology /and /Whose Cosmopolitanism? Critical 
Cosmopolitanism, Relationalities and Discontents/. In this talk, he 
will explore the relationship between everyday action, the contingencies 
of life and death, and the imaginative and inner life-worlds of the 
random strangers we pass on the street. It draws on rough magic, 
modernist literature, and performance to try to understand the radical 
consequences of turning right and left in open public spaces.

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*_Thursday April 11, 9:00 am – 5pm _*

*Imaginative Ethnography Symposium*

Location: Joseph G. Green Theatre, Centre for Film and Theatre, York 
University

9:00 am Welcome and Introductory Remarks
9:30 am CIE website introduction and invitation
10:30 – 11:45 am *Session 1*
11:45 – 1:00 /break/
1:00 – 2:45 pm*Session 2*
2:45 – 3:15 /break/
3:15 – 5:00 pm*Session 3*

*Speakers will include:*Tara Goldstein (University of Toronto), Kate 
Rossiter (Wilfrid Laurier university), Kenneth Little (York University), 
Zulfikar Hirji (York University), Kathleen Gallagher (University of 
Toronto), Trudi Smith (York University), Patrick Alcedo (York 
University), Magdalena Kazubowski-Houston (York University), Denielle 
Elliott (York University), Dara Culhane (Simon Fraser University), Ted 
Whittall (York University), and Diana Reis (York University).

Please check the CIE website for updates: 
(www.imaginativeethnography.org <http://www.imaginativeethnography.org>),

/All events are free and open to the public.
/
For more information on the Keynote Lecture and the Imaginative 
Ethnography Symposium, please contact Magdalena Kazubowski-Houston at: 
mkazubow at yorku.ca <mailto:mkazubow at yorku.ca>

For more information about The Centre for Imaginative Ethnography (CIE), 
please visit: www.imaginativeethnography.org 
<http://www.imaginativeethnography.org>





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