Ethnography is about writing — about conveying a sense of life, presence and attention and using detailed descriptions to establish analytical points that engage our imagination and extend our perceptions of worlds, both strange and familiar. This conference inquires into the craft of ethnographic writing and how ethnographic writing overlaps and differs from writing literature. We explore this in dialogue with a group of experienced ethnographers and writers, who have been asked to open the doors to their workshops to explore personal experiences, analytical ambitions, genre aspirations, past and present writing practices and challenges – all with an eye to ethnography as a fine-tuned tool for educating sensibility and imagination and causing thought in writer and reader alike.

09.30-10:00      Arrival

10.00-10.10      Welcome by Maja Hojer Bruun and Cathrine Hasse, Aarhus University

10.10-11.00      Writing dogs, ethnographically - Prof. E. Summerson Carr, University of Chicago

11.10-12.00      Artificial Anthropology? Exploring AI's Place in Ethnographic Writing - Assoc. Prof. Jakob Krause-Jensen, Aarhus University

12.00-12.50      Lunch

12.50-13.40      Where to start and how to end when you write ethnography? - Prof. Line Dalsgård, Aarhus University

13.50-14.40      Insula: når skriften blander sig med virkeligheden - Thomas Boberg, Danish poet and novelist (The talk and readings will be in Danish)       

14.40-15.00      End of the conference

ATTENDANCE IS FREE, including coffee and lunch, BUT PLEASE SIGN UP BEFORE JUNE 19 th.