"You are Here" and "How Does it Work?"

The session is both a keynote talk associated with the day-long Institutional Ethnography workshop and an opportunity for question/answer/discussion amongst workshop participants. The keynote is designed to raise some of the key points of departure that undergird research undertaken using the ontology of Institutional Ethnography (IE). 

While there is a substantial breadth and depth to IE research, and while not all researchers agree as to the relative importance of various components of IE research (for example, the centrality of "texts" to an IE research project), this keynote takes a stance on the fundamentals that tie IE research together, and invites discussion and deliberation regarding these elements.

How can you participate? Join us in person or online by registering for the Zoom Meeting or watching live on YouTube.

Have questions? Send them to info.4@concordia.ca  

Dr. Lauren Eastwood

Dr. Lauren Eastwood has just completed a three year contract as a senior researcher at the Centre for Global Cooperation Research in Duisburg, Germany, and is returning to her permanent position as Professor of Sociology at the State University of New York (SUNY), Plattsburgh.  She has worked with Institutional Ethnography (IE) for approximately 25 years, as she initially used the ontology to conduct her PhD research on UN Forest Policy, and has engaged with IE in various ways since. Her research primarily pertains to the policy making that takes place within UN negotiations, but she is also currently engaging in research on the criminalization of anti-fossil fuel activism.   

Organized by Dr. Jayne Malenfant (McGill University); Dr. Colin Hastings (University of Waterloo); Dr. Lauren Eastwood (SUNY); and Dr. Mitchell McLarnon (Concordia University).