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
  • 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
  • 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

  • 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,…

    Announcement, Events, Workshop

  • 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…

    Announcement, Events, Screening