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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  • AfterSchool

    AfterSchool is a public discussion series for critical conversations beyond the university. We invite anyone interested in exploring concepts with a spirit of open engagement. Coordinated by the Bureau for Experimental Ethnography,…

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  • 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.

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  • “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.

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  • 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
  • An envelope with a stamp on the back "Dear Body of Water" beneath the envelope are three partially obscured postcards

    AfterSchool no.05

    This month’s AfterSchool will focus on Dear Body of Water, a poetic water-harvesting project using both digital and mail-art participation to collectively address bodies of water as fellow beings on this Earth and…

    Announcement, BEE meet
  • Illustration of a cat sitting on paper, books, and pencils

    AfterSchool no.004

    Our last session of AfterSchool for this semester will be on December 5 from 5-7 p.m. (note the earlier start time) @ Alienated Majesty Books. The Experimental Ethnography seminar will lead a…

    Announcement, BEE meet

  • AfterSchool no.002

    The second meeting of AfterSchool will be on Thursday, October 3 from 6-7 p.m. at Alienated Majesty Books. Together, we will read pre-selected excerpts from The Collected Works of Anna Falkoff and Moten and Harney’s…

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  • The Movable Book

    Workshop with artist Keri Miki-Lani Schroeder September 23rd 9:00 am – 12:00 pm WCP 4.120 In this workshop students will make innovative paper structures that move in unexpected ways to hide and…

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