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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  • 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…

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  • 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…

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  • 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…

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  • 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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  • What is an AfterSchool?

    The first AfterSchool in our monthly series is titled “What is an AfterSchool?” Organized by the Bureau for Experimental Ethnography in partnership with Alienated Majesty Books, the first session will be a…

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  • SIM Project – April 30

    UK-based Photographer and Anthropologist, Liz Hingley is visiting Texas to share her latest work: The SIM Project. This will be an interactive talk, with an activity and overview of the evolving project,…

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  • Memoria screening, May 2

    Cinema Sensate presents Apichatpong Weerasethkul’s award winning 2021 narrative fiction film, Memoria. From the extraordinary mind of Palme D’or winning director Apichatpong Weerasethakul, and starring Academy Award winner Tilda Swinton, comes a…

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  • Matt Parker: Crystal Clear: How a pinch of salt taught the world to listen

    Zoom lecture, Wednesday, April 17 at 1 p.m. Matt Parker is a critical sound explorer; an artist researching the resonances between things. His multimedia works are influenced by the practice of listening;…

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