EPIC Conference

[s2If current_user_can(access_s2member_level1)]The EPIC conference is the premier international gathering on ethnography in business and organizations.

Our library includes articles (2005–present) and video (2014–present):

[s2If !is_user_logged_in()]The EPIC conference is the premier international gathering on ethnography in business and organizations. Our library includes articles (2005–present) and video (2014–present).

Articles are free to read, download and share when you create a free account:

To access video, become an EPIC Member.[/s2If] [s2If current_user_is(subscriber)]The EPIC conference is the premier international gathering on ethnography in business and organizations. Our library includes articles (2005–present) and video (2014–present).

Articles are free to read, download and share:

To access video, become an EPIC Member.[/s2If]

epic2022 Resilience
EPIC2022 Resilience
Who should flex, resist, or adapt? What should be restored, abandoned, or reinvented
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EPIC2021 Anticipation
How do we document, anticipate, and craft potential futures?
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EPIC2020 Scale
How do concepts of scale define the scopes, contexts, and impacts of ethnographic work?
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epic2019
EPIC2019 Agency
What does it mean to have agency in an increasingly automated world?
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EPIC2018 Evidence
How is evidence created, used, and abused?
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EPIC2017 Perspectives
Perspectives explores the vantage points that create and constrain ethnographic practices. What comes of changing scope; shifting positions; subverting norms?
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EPIC2016 Pathmaking
Pathmaking emphasizes the power of ethnography to create transformative innovation, growth and strategic success for companies, industries and communities.
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EPIC2015 Building Bridges
Crossing the equator for the first time, EPIC2015 explored the diverse connections among people, places, industries, and disciplines at the heart of ethnographic praxis.
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EPIC2014
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EPIC2013
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EPIC2012 Renewal
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Societies, cities, communities, economies, organizations, businesses and disciplines all renew themselves and are renewed. Renewal can be instinctive, natural and incremental and it can also be.
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EPIC2011 Evolution/Revolution
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We are focused this year on the harmonies and disjunctions between the continuous evolution of practice and the pressures of radical change.
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EPIC2010 道 Dō
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道 Dō captures the sense of individual mastery that is achieved only with the help of a community and its rich heritage. 道 Dō implies a body of knowledge and tradition with an ethic and an.
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EPIC2009 Taking Care of Business
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Taking Care of Business: having an impact and staying relevant as ethnographers in today’s economic climate.
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EPIC2008 Being Seen
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Paradoxes and Practices of (In)Visibility.

being-heard
EPIC2007 Being Heard
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transitions
EPIC2006 Transitions
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sociality
EPIC2005 Sociality
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Are we getting enough? Working within or with industry, ethnographers are expected to pay attention to corporate priorities and current.