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  • Home
  • About
  • Projects
    • Carceral Edgelands
      • Journal of Historical Sociology, Special Issue
      • Fieldwork Season, 2021-22
      • Conroe, Texas
      • Opening Event
      • Closing Event
      • Background Information
      • Reading list and foundations
        • Immigrant and refugee rights
        • Edgelands and Terrains Vague
      • Directives
    • POETIX
    • Film Cycle

The Bureau hosts meetings and events all over campus at UT Austin. Some of our events are hybrid. We try to maintain a regular meeting place in WCP 4.120.

Open Lab Hours:

Open M-F from 9am-4pm except when classes and seminars are being held. Schedule changes each semester.

The room may be locked. To get a key, contact Craig Campbell or someone in the main Anthropology office.

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  • Archival Ecologies

    How might we reimagine archival practices to cultivate different political horizons and relationships with the worlds yet to come?

    AfterSchool, Announcement, BEE meet, Events, Workshop
  • Autographic Environments

    Thursday, Feb.26 at 5pm

    AfterSchool
  • Who has seen the sound?

    Friday, February 27 2026. 5pm
    Cinema Sensate presents

    Cinema Sensate
  • A poster made of many pieces of colorful collaged fragments cut from magazines.

    AfterSchool – Collage

    AfterSchool – January 22 @ 5:30pm In a short article “Collage as a way of living” Reagan Golden describes collage as “the medium of the makeshift moment, a form for the fractured…

    AfterSchool, Announcement
  • Jerónimo Reyes-Retana: Playa Bagdad/SpaceX

    Jerónimo Reyes-Retana (b. Ciudad de México) is a researcher, artist, and community organizer from Mexico City whose work examines the poetics of infrastructure and the politics of noise in Latin American contact zones-sites shaped by the environmental, geopolitical, and social anxieties arising from the pursuit of progress.

    Announcement, Events
  • “I cannot see what I believe, I cannot believe what I see”

    A documentary film about the relationship between medicine, media, and ecology. Drawing from fieldwork in US laboratories, the film shows moments in which scientists engage bodily surfaces beyond their literal meaning, as interfaces between the inside and the outside, the perceived and the imagined, the human and the more-than-human.

    BEE meet, Events, Screening
  • Stacks of paper on shelves

    The Postal System & Digital Circulation

    A Zoom event with special guest Marc Fischer.

    Uncategorized
  • A pamphlet bound booklet with a yellow cover. An awl lying across a page with some red thread poking up.

    Workshop exploring the possibilities of form

    In the workshop we will make a standard 3-hole pamphlet binding, explore ways in which it could be altered or the form changed, and consider relationships between form and content.

    Announcement, BEE meet, Workshop
  • Large glass cabinet containing a taxidermized deer.

    AfterSchool 2025 Fall Meetings

    AfterSchool is back in session. We will be meeting at Alienated Majesty bookstore. Our first meeting will be on August 28th at 5:30pm. This is a planning session for the 2025/26 ex-Academic…

    AfterSchool, Announcement, Events
  • digitized still of filmic images. hands holding what might be a peach.

    AfterSchool no.06

    Please join us for a screening of Tianjiao Wang’s short film red bean followed by a discussion with the artist. We’re intrigued by Tianjiao’s attention to the ordinary, for the capacity of…

    Announcement, Events, Screening
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