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 no.05

January 19, 2025
Announcement, BEE meet

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 to cultivate care for watersheds. Postcards will be available for free but we’ll also be making our own as we talk and think about springs, aquifers, watersheds, and water.

Thursday Feb 6th, 2025. 5:30 PM – 7:00 PM
Alienated Majesty Books

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

“The idea for Dear Body of Water grew out of drought in the American West from a depleting body of water called Great Salt Lake (the subject of Gretchen E. Henderson’s book, Life in the Tar Seeps: A Spiraling Ecology from a Dying Sea, and film “Toward a Bird’s Eye View”: the backdrop for this website). Great Salt Lake is entangled with watersheds throughout the West, including the Colorado River, whose reach extends into the biodiverse Sonoran Desert.” Dear Body of Water

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, sessions will include a brief presentation as an opening for discussion. Short readings will be circulated in advance. Sessions will conclude with an “after” assignment meant to sustain our inquiry through engagement with the world.