Advancing the Value of Ethnography

Learning Week

Join EPIC Members to build foundational expertise, learn about emerging issues, and hang out with a generous and ingenious community of change makers!

Program

Join us to learn expertise and skills we need to create opportunity and navigate this time of transformation. Just bring your ingenuity, creativity, rigor, and open mind! Check out our daily themes or:

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Social Change

MONDAY, MAY 12

Social change is the stage for our lives, labor, and professional opportunities. Today, speakers address change – or upheaval – in politics, economics, and public spaces that may radically affect our futures as communities and workers.

Research Futures

TUESDAY, MAY 13

A hallmark of ethnography is participating in sites of social and technological change. Today, speakers bring the right mix of rigor, creativity, strategy, experimentation, and debate to core and leading-edge methodologies.

Intelligences

WEDNESDAY, MAY 14

Our annual conference theme is catalyzing deeper ngagement with multiple intelligences. Today’s speakers explore social and cognitive implications of AI interaction and how AI adoption are changing organizations, collaboration, and work.

Careers

THURSDAY, MAY 15

The right way to navigate your career or search for a job is the one that feels the best – with a warm, generous community. Today, we’ll hear from speakers and hiring managers about opportunities for our work and hear strategies for networking (that’s not cringy!).

Featured Sessions

Semiotic Sensemaking with AI

Cato Hunt
Space Doctors

AI Research Tools & Ethnographic Methodologies

Michael Powell, Practica Grou; Tara Schwegler, University of Texas San Antonio

Authoritarian Transitions or Democratic Resilience?

Lucan Way, University of Toronto; Nichole Carelock, US Digital Service;
Marta Lorimer, Cardiff University

Generative AI, Cognitive Offloading, and the Future of Critical Thinking in Research and Society

Michael Gerlich, SBS Swiss Business School; Lindsey DeWitt Prat, Bold Insight;
Kirsten Bruckbauer, Bold Insight

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