A Botanical Garden Conference

In July, the newly formed #colleex network (pronounced as a homophone of colleagues) met in Lisbon’s Botanical Gardens, surrounded by peacocks, tea and coffee groves, pink 30’s concrete colonial restaurant and the species of Portugal’s empire.

palms

The formats were diverse – the organisers going to enormous lengths to incorporate the visual, the exhibition, the film, the experiential, the workshop, and the written spoken presentation.

My talk, “Is a tweet a fieldnote?” fell into this last, most classical category. Taking the opportunity to discuss a piece first prepared for an Ethos event in February, I presented on my participation in #ESIFRice, an online ‘twitter experiment’ that linked ethnographers around the world through the hashtag. A shortened version came out on Allegra as a blogpost – see here.

You can read the fully curated twitter feed on Storify  from Tomas Criado below