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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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  • Photographic image looking down on a group of people. Their hands are visible and they are working with paper and crafts.

    Witnessing the Subterranean

    Witnessing the Subterranean

    Announcement, Events
  • The Less Good Idea of How To Curate Controversial Animated Images

    “The Less Good Idea of How To Curate Controversial Animated Images” Monica Heintz (visiting professor)April 9, 2026WCP 5.118, 5:00pm How to share the unshareable? When digging into French colonial images and films…

    Announcement, Events
  • Expedition Content, screening and Q&A with filmmakers

    Expedition Content, screening and Q&A with filmmakers

    Announcement, Screening
  • Collective Mapping Workshop

    Collective Mapping Workshop
    March 26th, 2026. 5:30-7:30pm

    Announcement, BEE meet, Workshop
  • 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
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