As disciplines other than anthropology increasingly look to ethnography as a method of research, the method is itself going through significant transformations. Anthropologists are now conducting ethnographic fieldwork that would have been inconceivable only 15 years ago. On April 10, The New School for Social Research’s Department of Anthropology will present a free conference, “Scaling the Ethnographic” from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., in the Machinist Conference Room, 65 Fifth Avenue, mezzanine level.

The conference will consist of three panels in which participants will address one of three themes in a conversation moderated by two students, who will pose questions raised by the work of the panelists.

“Inner Space: Scales of Subjectivity” addresses questions on the scale of the human interior.
Participants include: Ann Stoler, professor of Anthropology, The New School; João Biehl, professor of Anthropology, Princeton University; and Emily Martin, professor Anthropology, New York University.

“Cosmopolitanism: Scales of Circulation” addresses questions of the largest or most ethereal scales—what are often called the global and the universal.
Participants include: Douglas Holmes, professor of Anthropology, Binghamton University; Ben Lee, professor of Anthropology, The New School; and Caitlin Zaloom, assistant professor of Social and Cultural Analysis, New York University.

“Material Entanglements: Scales of Liveliness” questions the traditional ethnographic presumptions on scales of agency.
Participants include: Hugh Raffles, associate professor of Anthropology, The New School and Stefan Helmreich, associate professor of Anthropology, MIT.

Closing remarks will be made by Vyjayanthi Rao, assistant professor of Anthropology, The New School. For additional information, visit scaling.wordpress.com .