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 에볼루션 카지노 웹사이트“ 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

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 DalsgÃ¥rd, Aarhus University

13.50-14.40       Insula: nÃ¥r skriften blander sig med virkeligheden. Thomas Boberg, Danish poet and writer (the talk and readings will be in Danish)      

14.40-15.00       Wrapping it up

E. Summerson Carr is Professor at the University of Chicago, jointly appointed in the Anthropology Department and the Crown School of Social Work, Policy and Practice. Her ethnographic work explores the ways that expertise is enacted, institutionalized and scaled, especially in professions that focus on human behavior and interiority. Tracing how North American dogs are being recruited, trained and deployed as full-time human service workers, her current work asks why and to what effects dogs are valorized for extra-human capacities to communicate and care in such settings.

Jakob Krause-Jensen is Associate Professor at Aarhus University. He is interested in the way anthropological theories and sensibilities can be brough to bear on the study of contemporary work-life and organizations. For many years he organized and taught the Crafting Ethnography PhD course. He is currently interested in the role of generative AI in education in general and in relation to ethnography in particular.

Anne Line Dalsgård is Professor of Anthropology at Aarhus University. Since 1997 she has carried out frequent fieldwork in northeastern Brazil and is currently writing a book about seven women, she has known for more than 25 years. Together with Helle Bundgaard she has written Etnografisk Tekst: Om at forstå verden gennem skrift (2023), which will be published by Palgrave as Resonant Ethnography. Understanding the World through Writing, probably in 2026.

Thomas Boberg is a renowned Danish poet and novelist. Thomas Boberg. Since his debut in 1984 he has received extensive recognition for his contribution to Danish literature. Since 2018 he has been member of The Danish Academy (Det Danske Akademi). Boberg lived in Peru for several years and has traveled widely in Latin America and Africa. In 2024 he published a both praised and debated book, Insula, about his life on the Danish island Fej에볼루션 카지노 웹사이트. Boberg has been nominated three times for the Nordic Council에볼루션 카지노 웹사이트™s Literature Prize in 1999 for Americas, and in 2006 for Livsstil (Life Style) and in 2025 for the novel Insula.