The Ethnography Studio is celebrating new publications from the interdisciplinary, SSRC-funded project, The Future of Facts in Latin America, led by PI Andrea Ballestero (USC) and Co-PIs Eden Medina (MIT) and Kregg Hetherington (Concordia University). The project supported a hemispheric and interdisciplinary working group to explore the nature of facts in the 21st century, in the context of the ongoing redefinition of truth claims amid compounding crises of climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic, rising religious fundamentalism and new forms of populism, and the acceleration of information technologies. In these publications, participants proposed new concepts to go beyond dominant truth/falsehood and fact/fiction dichotomies, offering historical and ethnographic materials examining the emerging nature of facts in a global context. 

In this online event, members of the Future of Facts working group and discussants will reflect on the project’s two key outcomes: a thematic cluster in the journal Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society, and a blog series on Cultural Anthropology’s Theorizing the Contemporary. Register to receive the zoom link here.

Read more about the Future of Facts project and these publications here. For questions, please reach out to Emma Jahoda-Brown at [email protected].