Shoal and Waller Creeks

Bureau of Experimental Ethnography (TX)

Water Party at Alienated Majesty Books in Austin, TX (February 2025). Photos by Craig Campbell and Marina Peterson.

LOCATION: Alienated Majesty Books, Austin, TX

DATE: Thursday Feb 6th, 2025, 5:30 PM-7:00 PM

REPLENISHER: Bureau of Experimental Ethnography, Department of Anthropology, University of Texas at Austin (co-led by Craig Campbell and Marina Peterson).

DESCRIPTION: AfterSchool is a public discussion series for critical conversations beyond the university. We invite anyone interested in exploring concepts with a spirit of open engagement. Coordinated by the Bureau for Experimental Ethnography, sessions will include a brief presentation as an opening for discussion. Short readings will be circulated in advance. Sessions will conclude with an “after” assignment meant to sustain our inquiry through engagement with the world.

This month's AfterSchool will focus on Dear Body of Water, a poetic water-harvesting project using both digital and mail-art participation to collectively address bodies of water as fellow beings on this Earth and to cultivate care for watersheds.

✦✦✦ ABOUT THE BUREAU FOR EXPERIMENTAL ETHNOGRAPHY ✦✦✦

The Bureau for Experimental Ethnography (BEE) is invested in creative forms and practices within and on the edges of academic work. Its projects encompass critical experimentation in visual media, sound, text, and other haptic and sensory forms. BEE coordinates ongoing activities, lectures, and events.

✦✦✦ ABOUT ALIENATED MAJESTY BOOKS ✦✦✦

Alienated Majesty Books is a bookstore and community space in central Austin that specializes in small presses, comics, works in translation, and titles you might not find elsewhere. In 2024, AMB was voted Best Obscure Literature Collection by the Austin Chronicle.

Links to this event at BEE and AM Bookstore.

Acknowledgments

Thanks to: professors of anthropology Craig Campbell and Marina Peterson who co-lead the Bureau of Experimental Ethnography at the University of Texas at Austin, along with guests who participated at this community gathering.

Local Replenishers of Dear Body of Water also include UT-Austin's PlanetTexas 2050.

Land Acknowledgement (from the University of Texas at Austin): (I) We would like to acknowledge that we are meeting on the Indigenous lands of Turtle Island, the ancestral name for what now is called North America. Moreover, (I) We would like to acknowledge the Alabama-Coushatta, Caddo, Carrizo/Comecrudo, Coahuiltecan, Comanche, Kickapoo, Lipan Apache, Tonkawa and Ysleta Del Sur Pueblo, and all the American Indian and Indigenous Peoples and communities who have been or have become a part of these lands and territories in Texas. Read more here.