Dispatches
Public lectures, panels, screenings, publications, and experimental forms emerging from the Lab’s research, teaching, and collaborations.
#skoden — Reclaiming a Meme, Reclaiming a Life
A screening of Damien Eagle Bear’s documentary followed by a community-centred conversation about digital culture, memory, documentary ethics, and reparative storytelling.
A Journey into Indigenous Maya Political Ontology and Epistemology
Dr. Maxime Lamoureux-St-Hilaire traces the relationships that transformed the Maya ruler Chak Ak’ Paat Kuy into a divine king—and asks how shifting between ontologies can clarify ancient political worlds.
New Blood
AAMRU and the Iniskim Centre bring New Blood back to MRU: poetry, music, contemporary and traditional dance carrying the life story of Siksika leader Vincent Yellow Old Woman.
The Phoenix of Gaza XR @ MRU
A Canadian premiere at MRU that welcomed 400+ visitors into an immersive archive of Gaza, combining experiential learning, informed witnessing, and public dialogue.
Flight Routes
Chloe Howe Haralambous on policing, subterfuge, and Europe’s maritime border regime in the Mediterranean migrant corridor.
ContextualizingPalestine
A public panel on settler colonialism, genocide, Palestinian–Indigenous solidarities, student encampments, and decolonial liberation.
Social Issues Film Series
Six free screenings and discussions across two terms, moving from Sugarcane to Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio through questions of memory, care, conflict, surveillance, community, and power.
Para-site Manifesto
Penelope Papailias and George Mantzios offer a ten-point primer for Experimental Humanities laboratories in the non-standard.
Leviathan’s Maw
An illustration published in Graphic Refuge, reflecting on Mediterranean migration, maritime borders, and graphic art as ethnographic form.
Aunties | Anti
An exhibition by the Jellybean Collective and MRU student artists exploring aunties as kinship, chosen family, care, memory, truth-telling, and anti-colonial relation.
Dispatches as a record of work in public
The archive gathers events, collaborations, screenings, publications, and research encounters developed through the Ethnographic Research & Practice Lab. They also provide space to feature the work of our colleagues and collaborators, including projects, events, publications, and other forms of public scholarship that may not directly involve the ERPL but speak to the Lab’s wider intellectual and collaborative community.