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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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  • 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
  • “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
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    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
  • 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
  • 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;…

    Announcement, Events
  • vr documentary screening and discussion

    Tuesday, March 19th at 4pmLab for Immersive MediaDoty Fine Arts Building (DFA 4.126) Rossella Schillaci (PhD) presents her award winning experimental VR documentary, Affiorare (Surfacing). Screening to be followed by a discussion…

    Announcement, Events, Screening
  • example of Holland Hopson's design work.

    Holland Hopson: Listening as a Creative Act

    Presentation by Holland Hopson. April 10, 2023 at 1pm.RLP 1.302B

    Events
  • Expedition Content

    On April 4th we will be screening Expedition Content, an award-winning film by Ernst Karel & Veronika Kusumaryati. It is described as “an immersive marvel of sonic ethnography” by Peter Kelly of…

    Events, Screening
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